A Storm of Swords: 3 - Softcover

Martin, George R.R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000710197X ISBN 13: 9780007101979

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 2000

Synopsis

George R.R. Martin’s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire, the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings, continues with A Storm of Swords. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage.

The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.

The men of the Night’s Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings twenty-thousand strong – hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness – poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown.

But Robb’s defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark’s enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei’s ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery.

And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband’s funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.

About this title

About the Author

George R.R. Martin is the author of Fevre Dream, the ultimate science fiction horror novel, several collections of short stories and numerous scripts for television drama. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

From the Back Cover

The Seven Kingdoms are divided by blood feud as winter approaches like an angry beast. The men of the Night's Watch prepare for the great cold and the walking corpses that travel within it. But a horde of hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness is poised to invade the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. Robb's sisters are lost, dead or likely yet to die at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey. Across the sea, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband's funeral pyre, ready to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne. The riches, most exotic and mesmerising saga since 'The Lord of the Rings' continues with 'A Storm of Swords'

'Grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant.'
ROBERT JORDAN

'Colossal, staggering… Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world…The writing is always powerful…one of the greats of fantasy literature'
SFX

'Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer mind-boggling scope of the 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

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 000710197X
• ISBN 13: 9780007101979
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 984