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A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin.It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award [1] and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award [1] and the 1997 World Fantasy Award.
However, the book slowly won the passionate advocacy of independent booksellers and the book's popularity grew by word of mouth. [51] The series' popularity skyrocketed in subsequent volumes, [ 24 ] with the second and third volumes making The New York Times Best Seller lists in 1999 [ 40 ] and 2000, [ 42 ] respectively.
George Raymond Martin (he adopted the confirmation name Richard at 13 years old) [2] was born on September 20, 1948, [14] in Bayonne, New Jersey, [15] the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin.
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO.It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is A Game of Thrones.
She claims to be from the Free City of Volantis. No character named Talisa appears in the books. Oona Chaplin was originally announced to play a character called Jeyne, which many thought to mean she would play Jeyne Westerling, a character from the books. Talisa follows Robb Stark's army camp as it moves.
Brienne of Tarth is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones.She is a prominent point of view character in the novels.
The result is a complex summer blockbuster with brains and heart, a book with rare—and potentially enormous—appeal. [39] Megan Wasson of The Christian Science Monitor said, "A Dance with Dragons may well be one of the best books in the five-book series so far. Martin's prose is concise but pithy, begging to be devoured over and over again.
Theon Greyjoy is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.