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At the beginning of A Game of Thrones, 15 years have passed since Robert's rebellion, with a nine-year-long summer coming to an end. The story follows her year-long conflict with the region's city states, in which she aims to consolidate power, disrupt the Essosi slave trade, and gather support for her ambitions to reclaim Westeros. The success is all the more remarkable because [the series debuted] without mass market publicity or any kind of buzz in the fantasy/SF scene. Like the first two books, A Storm of Swords could coast on the fundamentals: deftly detailed characters, convincing voices and dialogue, a robust back-story, and a satisfyingly unpredictable plot. Each chapter is told from a limited third-person perspective, drawn from a group of characters that grows from nine in the first novel to 31 by the fifth.
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The novella The Sons of the Dragon, published in the 2017 anthology The Book of Swords, is the story of Aegon the Conqueror's two sons Aenys I and Maegor I "The Cruel". Fans of the genre have glumly come to expect go-nowhere sequels from other authors, so we’re entitled to pinch ourselves over Martin’s tightly crafted Song of Ice and Fire series.A Storm of Swords was 1,521 pages in manuscript (without appendices), [36] causing problems for many of Martin's publishers around the world. Those two fantasy greats are also evoked by Martin’s ability to convey such sensual experiences as the heat of wildfire, the chill of ice, the smell of the sea and the sheer gargantuan indigestibility of the medieval banquet at its most excessive.
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David Orr of The New York Times noted the story importance of "the Starks (good guys), the Targaryens (at least one good guy, or girl), the Lannisters (conniving), the Greyjoys (mostly conniving), the Baratheons (mixed bag), the Tyrells (unclear), and the Martells (ditto), most of whom are feverishly endeavoring to advance their ambitions and ruin their enemies, preferably unto death". As of 2011 [update], Martin was still typing his fiction on an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS with WordStar 4. The story is written to follow principal landmarks with an ultimate destination, but leaves Martin room for improvisation.A Song of Ice and Fire depicts a violent world, largely without magic and dominated by political realism. He also revealed there had been a previous deadline of October 2015 that he had considered achievable in May 2015, and that in September 2015 he had still considered the end-of-year deadline achievable. The success of these breath-taking books has led onto even greater acclaim for the HBO television adaptation 'Game of Thrones'.
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That when things are, on the whole, pretty crappy [in the real world], it's a deep joy to dive headfirst into something so completely immersive, something from which there is no need to surface from hours at a time.
The fourth installment, A Feast for Crows, was an immediate best-seller at its 2005 release, [24] hitting number one on "The New York Times" hardcover fiction bestseller list November 27, 2005, which for a fantasy novel suggested that Martin's books were attracting mainstream readers.
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Several of the series' most beloved characters — Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen — are saved for the following book, which focuses on the characters at the Wall and across the Narrow Sea. The Targaryen history is planned as a two-part series, with this second volume presumably covering the second 150 years of the family's 300-year reign.
The series, titled Game of Thrones, premiered in April 2011 to great acclaim and ratings (see Game of Thrones §Reception).
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