A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

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The first volume in the hugely popular, violent and action-packed epic fantasy.

The first volume of George R R Martin’s glorious high fantasy tells the tragic story of treachery, greed and war that threatens the unity of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall. Martin unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with memorable characters, a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic. Set in a fabulous world scarred by battle and catastrophe over 8000 years of recorded history, it tells of the deeds of men and women locked in the deadliest of conflicts and the terrible legacy they will leave their children. In the game of thrones, you win or you die.

And in the bitter-cold, unliving lands beyond the Wall, a terrible winter gathers and the others — the undead, the neverborn, wildlings to whom the threat of the sword is nothing — make ready to descend on the realms of men.

  • ISBN13 9780002245845
  • Publish Date 5 August 1996 (first published 1 August 1996)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 January 1998
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperVoyager