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The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones

By: Linda Antonsson, George R.R. Martin, Elio M. Garcia Jr.
Narrated by: Roy Dotrice, Nicholas Guy Smith
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The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin.

If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE.

George R.R. Martin, in collaboration with Elio M. García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros.

This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. Martin’s dazzlingly conceived universe; THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords.

©2014 George R.R. Martin (P)2014 2014 Random House LLC Action & Adventure Dark Fantasy Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction Mythology Espionage Royalty Suspense

Critic Reviews

‘Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, George R.R. Martin is by far the best’
Time Magazine

‘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’
SFX

‘The sheer-mind-boggling scope of this 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
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It was very interesting to hear the surrounding history. just as good as the other books

Excellent

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Absolutely loved this book... Although old mates voice did have a tendency to be slightly monotonous.

Love it!

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Incredible stuff. I’ve rounded out all of George’s work now and very sad that I’ve reached the end of this glorious world.

Big RIP to big Roy as well, I’ll be hearing your silky voice for an era.

In the name of good king Stannis (the mannis) I bid you farewell.

Love this universe

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Big Game of Thrones fan, brought the book years ago and never read it, but decided to give the audiobook ago and it was amazing and ridiculously engrossing! I couldn’t stop listening! An absolute must for any Game of Thrones fan!

Absolutely amazing!

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if you are a massive fan of the books. then this is for you. production needs a little work as there a few places where words are missed or separate recordings joined to close.

for the true lover

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narrator was on point this lays out the wonderful history and backstory of westeros thankyou

exceptional history great detailed accounts

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Absolutely loved it, a great fleshing out of George R.R. Martins ice and fire series.

Brilliant and in depth

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it tells many untold stories and expands on many off hand comments from the books. the footnotes are done absolutely phenomenally.

an amazing book on history of Ice and Fire.

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a great book, with a narrator that was fantastic, speaking in a time appropriate manner

fantastic narration

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These books are getting a bit repetitive. So many retelling of the same plots from different perspectives. I mean, the story was good, the narrators fabulous, but we already know what happens from the other books.

Good next story

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