A song of fire and blood6/6/2023 The book is actually just the first of two planned volumes covering the 300 years before the events of ASOIAF, and is purportedly written by Archmaester Gyldayn, an extremely unreliable narrator. It seems like deliberate trolling then to release a brick of a book that, while set in the same fantasy world of Westeros, is not actually part of the ASOIAF series, and isn’t a novel but rather an “imaginary history”, subtitled “A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III,” and inspired by Thomas B Costain’s four-volume history of the Plantagenets. Fans have been waiting seven years for the penultimate book in the series, and have grown increasingly frustrated with what they see as the author's procrastination, as he continues to work on other projects even though the TV adaptation of the saga, Game of Thrones, is set to conclude this summer. And yet this is the strange situation we find ourselves in regarding George RR Martin’s latest release.įor those not up to speed, Martin is the author of the hugely-successful A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF) fantasy saga. It’s not often that a book by a celebrated author arrives with the writer on a publicity drive to not only justify the existence of the book, but to simultaneously warn some readers off it entirely.
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