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Genre/Form: | Fantasy fiction Fiction Science fiction Fantasy Fantastic fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Martin, George R.R. Game of thrones. New York : Bantam Books, 1996 (OCoLC)606520041 |
Named Person: | Eddard (Fictitious character) Stark |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George R R Martin; James Sinclair, (Book designer); Virginia Norey |
ISBN: | 0553103547 9780553103540 9780553573404 0553573403 9780553381689 0553381687 0553593714 9780553593716 0002245841 9780002245845 000647988X 9780006479888 9780007428540 0007428545 9780007448036 0007448031 9780007548231 0007548230 |
OCLC Number: | 33360758 |
Notes: | "Copyright © 1996 by George R.R. Martin. Endpaper maps by James Sinclair. Book design by James Sinclair. Heraldic crests by Virginia Norey"--Title page verso Includes two maps covering the territory of A game of thrones on endpapers. |
Awards: | Winner of Locus Awards 1997 |
Description: | 694 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | As Warden of the North, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must!and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, a vengeance-mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyond the sea. Heir of the mad Dragon King deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron Throne, and the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lust and intrigues; to the vast frozen north, where a 700-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. |
Responsibility: | George R.R. Martin. |
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Abstract:
The first volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean.
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'Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best'Time Magazine 'Colossal, staggering... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome'SFX 'The sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads ... Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias'Guardian Read more...
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