A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) - Hardcover

Martin, George R.R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007441428 ISBN 13: 9780007441426

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2011

Synopsis

First in the epic series of Game of Thrones, this book is a 1st edition.

About this title

Review:

‘Colossal, staggering... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world ... one of the greats of fantasy literature’
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‘This is one of those rare and effortless reads’ ROBIN HOBB

‘George R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books’ RAYMOND E. FEIST

‘Such a splendid tale. I read my eyes out – I couldn’t stop till I’d finished and it was dawn’ ANNE MCCAFFREY

‘George Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy’ KATHARINE KERR

‘Few created worlds are as imaginative and diverse’ JANNY WURTS

From the Back Cover:

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing: his most trusted advisor dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself. Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards who come together in a time of grim omens. Here, an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal, a tribe of fierce wildings carry men off into madness, a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne, a child is lost in the twilight between life and death, and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0007441428
• ISBN 13: 9780007441426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 864