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Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
A GAME OF THRONES
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 and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is 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 wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
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Action & Adventure, American Fantasy fiction, Betrayal, Bien y mal, Civil war, Courts and courtiers, Dragons, Epic, epic fantasy, epic fiction, epic literature, fantastic fiction, fantasy, fantasy fiction, Ficción, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, fantasy, general, good and evil, Guerras imaginarias, Hugo Award Winner, Ignotus Award winner, imaginary places, imaginary wars and battles, Invierno, kings and rulers, Locus Award winner, magic, New York Times bestseller, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2011-09-10, Science Fiction, seasons, Voyages and travels, winter, Trial by combat, walls, penal colonies, wights, folk healers, persistent vegetative states, Seven kingdoms (imaginary place), fiction, Seven kingdoms (Imaginary place), Coloring books, Kings and rulers -- Fiction, Civil war -- Fiction, Spanish fictionPeople
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Juego de tronos
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A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire
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June 2002, Meisha Merlin Pub (P)
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A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire
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A Game of Thrones
1998 January 5, Voyager
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A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Fire and Ice
1997-09, Spectra
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A Game of Thrones: Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire
1996, Voyager / HarperCollins
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A Game Of Thrones: 300 before the game of thrones
August 1st, 1996, Bantam Spectra (US) Voyager Books (UK)
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1996 August, Spectra / Bantam
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A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011, the novel became a New York Times Bestseller and reached No. 1 on the list in July 2011.
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