"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
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A Game of Thrones
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by George R. R. Martin
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From a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you’ve ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of this magnificent saga, the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere.
A GAME OF THRONES
A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK ONE
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 adviser 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 wildlings 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 counter-plots, 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.
Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won’t let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.
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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
Illyrio, Jon Arryn, Robert Baratheon, Eddard Stark, Sansa Stark Joffrey Stark, Lysa Stark, Cersei Lannister, Bran Stark, Jaime Lannister, Peter Baelish, Tyrion Lannister, Bronn, Others, wildlings, Jon Snow, Benjen Stark, Samwell Tarly, Jeor Mormont, Viserys, Daenerys, Khal Drogo, Dothraki, Jorah Mormont, Viserys Targaryen, Rhaegar Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen, Stannis Baratheon, Renly Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon, Myrcella Baratheon, Tommen Baratheon, Catelyn Stark, Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Brandon Stark, Rickard Stark, Tywin Lannister, Kevan Lannister, Lysa ArrynPlaces
Winterfell, King's Landing, Seven Kingdoms, Westeros, Sunset LandsShowing 11 featured editions. View all 86 editions?
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A Game of Thrones
2017, Bantam Books
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A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire
2015, Bantam Books
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Juego de tronos
2013, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, PLAZA & JANES MEXICO
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A Game of Thrones: Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire
2012, Harper Voyager
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Le Trône de fer: L'intégrale 1
2012-06, Editiones France Loisirs
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A Game of Thrones
2005-08, Spectra/Bantam Books, Spectra
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A Game of Thrones
May 28, 2002, Bantam Books
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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 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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