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Fire and Blood: The inspiration for 2022's highly anticipated HBO and Sky TV series HOUSE OF THE DRAGON from the internationally bestselling creator of epic fantasy classic GAME OF THRONES Copertina rigida – 20 novembre 2018
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THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY’S HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash.
The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in George R.R. Martin’s FIRE & BLOOD.
The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones.
With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R.R. Martin, this is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen – the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria – took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel, and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.
George R.R. Martin's book 'Fire and Blood' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 24-10-2022.
- Lunghezza stampa736 pagine
- LinguaInglese
- EditoreHarperVoyager
- Data di pubblicazione20 novembre 2018
- Dimensioni15.9 x 6 x 24 cm
- ISBN-100008307733
- ISBN-13978-0008307738
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- The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of ThronesGeorge R.R. MartinCopertina rigida
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‘A masterpiece’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘An epic take, viewed from soaring heights’
DAILY MAIL
‘A feast of pure imagination’
SFX
‘The sheer detail of the richly layered world [Martin] has created is astonishing, with narrative twists and turns aplenty’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
PRAISE FOR A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE:
‘Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, 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’
SFX
‘Martin’s style is so vivid that you will be hooked within a few pages’
THE TIMES
‘I always expect the best from George R.R. Martin and he always delivers’
ROBERT JORDAN
Descrizione del libro
The inspiration for 2022's highly anticipated HBO and Sky TV series HOUSE OF THE DRAGON from the internationally bestselling creator of epic fantasy classic GAME OF THRONES
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The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones.
With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally best-selling author George R.R. Martin, this is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen – the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria – took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.
L'autore
George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as screenplays for television and feature films. Dubbed ‘the American Tolkien’, George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer on HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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- Editore : HarperVoyager; 1° edizione (20 novembre 2018)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Copertina rigida : 736 pagine
- ISBN-10 : 0008307733
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008307738
- Peso articolo : 1.02 kg
- Dimensioni : 15.9 x 6 x 24 cm
- Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 41 in Narrativa di azione su guerre e militari
- n. 53 in Azione e avventura fantasy
- n. 66 in Narrativa di guerra
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Si compone di 711 pagine ed è molto facile da leggere anche x i neofiti inglesi
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Si compone di 711 pagine ed è molto facile da leggere anche x i neofiti inglesi
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Molti capitoli sembrano un manuale di storia, con lunghi elenchi di battaglie e cavalieri che vi hanno, partecipato e vi sono morti, successioni di matrimoni e di tutti i parenti che vi hanno preso parte.
La storia è poco coinvolgente, personaggi spesso banali, manca completamente la tensione narrativa degli altri romanzi. I collezionisti del ciclo posso leggerlo per "dovere", tutti gli altri posso anche evitarlo.
E adesso ricomincia la mia veglia per "The Winds of Winter" (arriveranno prima "A Caution for Young Girls" e "The Testimony of Mushroom" ?)
To better understand the world of GoT
It's all here: Aegon's conquest of Westeros, Maegor the Cruel, the Long Reign of king Jaehaerys, the Dance of the Dragons... and much, much more.
And now begins again my vigil for "The Winds of Winter" (maybe after "A Caution for Young Girls" e "The Testimony of Mushroom" ?)
"Every fool knows that the things you do not know will never hurt you."
Per coloro che imprecano contro Martin per la stesura degli altri volumi di A Song of Ice & Fire: anche io aspetto da anni ma non lo trovo un motivo sufficiente per insultare un artista simile e che, avendo un suo modo di lavorare e trovare ispirazione, non è una semplice macchina di stampa volta a pubblicare libri a comando.
Cover has white stains and is folded at the corners as well as peeling at the spine.
Pages are folded at the top and seem to be water damaged

Cover has white stains and is folded at the corners as well as peeling at the spine.
Pages are folded at the top and seem to be water damaged


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Why am I telling you this about Tolkien in a review for GRR Martin? This should seem fairly obvious by now: GRR Martin has the same longing Tolkien did. He has the same love of the grand, sweeping historical epic. So far he has been giving us his 'Lord of the Rings,' his drama of the minutiae, but in the process he got caught up in the grand and glorious visions of the Targaryens, just as Tolkien was swept up into the glories of the First Age. It’s no mistake this book is being called the “GRRMillion.”
Martin's popularity is granting him a chance that Tolkien unfortunately never had in his lifetime: To create his myth IN FULL. To give us the grand sweep of things in the greater world, beyond just the characters we know and love in 'A Song of Ice and Fire.'
Please accept this book for what it is, rather than complaining about what it does not aim to be. And what exactly is it? An artefact from Westeros. It should be read not as a book Martin wrote, but one he transcribed, from the original text by Archmaester Gyldayn. It will require some work on the part of the reader. The lines have been drawn, and we are being asked to fill in the colors with our imaginations. This participatory reading is what can make history so engaging—it takes work, but the work pays off.
We have two choices: We can claw after the next GoT book, complaining that the author hasn’t yet met our demands. Or we can allow the author a chance to fill out his universe. For my part, this stuff is more exciting than the series proper. We get to see the bigger picture that all of the Song of Ice and Fire is a part of. If you don't want this sort of thing, simply move on rather than ruining the experience for others.
I remember what it felt like to sit down one day as a boy and open 'The Silmarillion.' I was holding the Bible of the Elves. It was a piece of that world. It was a text that might have been read by a scholar in Minas Tirith. It was magic. Martin has the chance to give us this now. Imagine being Samwell Tarly, sitting in the Citadel's library, opening up this ponderous and magical tome about the history of the Targaryens for the first time.
Why now, though? Why not wait until he's finished telling the main story? For my part, I'd rather follow the passion of a writer than get mediocre work demanded by fans. Martin created this universe for us; let him follow his vision for how it should proceed. He was caught up in the glorious history of his universe as he was telling his story, and he wants us to have it in all of its rich complexity. I can only wish that Tolkien had had the same opportunity in his lifetime. We only see fragments of what that might have been. But Martin is giving us his own great mythology, in his own lifetime, whole and complete; and I am a boy again with wonder.
This, my friends, is going to be a feast.

Having a new ASOIAF book instead *would* have been great, or even preferable, but this does not mean Fire and Blood should be cast aside or (as seems to be the case in some corners of the internet) poorly-reviewed by people who refuse to read it because of what it is not.
In short - an enjoyable read containing many of the tropes, themes and writing hallmarks which many readers love from the main series, and well-worth reading.

As with most such things, the TV series and the stories told in the books are quite different (S1 of the TV series was a faithful expression of the first book, to the extent that TV episodes exactly matched the book chapters but, after that, they drifted apart ever more markedly). This book is aimed, squarely, at the readers who are totally immersed in the fantasy world that GRRM created. The books often make passing reference to historical events that shaped the creation of this world (in this case, the creation of Westeros) without fleshing out those references, and this book seeks to provide the full back story; well, half of it!
This isn't a slim 'companion book' as it's just as massive as any of the full-blown novels. GRRM has chosen to use a different writing style, taking the viewpoint of a fictional historian rather than a protagonist, and the result is that it's all less of an immersive tale and more like a history textbook. The exciting stories are in there, they're just that bit more hidden. I confess that even I, a dyed-in-the-wool Ice & Fire fan, became a bit bored and reaching the end felt more like completing a marathon than the sadness that it's all over and there's nothing left to read.
But it isn't all over! I bought this book thinking that it would fill the complete the entire gap between the dragon-based invasion of Westeros and the beginning of the Ice & Fire books but, actually, huge as it is, it still only fills half the gap and GRRM promises to write a 'Volume 2' soon that completes the narrative. I'm not sure that I have the stamina for another round!
There are two major problems with this book, exacerbated in the e-book version. It's almost impossible to follow this story without having to hand a large map of Westeros and the surrounding world and also a family tree for all of those mentioned in the book. There is a simplified family tree of the Targaryens at the end of the book but, as usual, it's too small to see in the e-book so you'll need a print-out. Of course, given the Targaryen penchant for every form of incestuous marriage, even the basic family tree doesn't look like a 'normal' tree. All of the books have maintained a shameful tradition of omission and this one is the same; there are no maps included. I suspect that this is a cynically deliberate decision on the part of the publishers to try to make readers buy the (expensive) companion of GoT maps. Over the years, I've built up a small library of maps and so I could print off and keep to hand a map of Westoros but, without being able to refer to it constantly, following the plot in this book would have been all but impossible.
But I had a bigger problem with this book; something common to all of the books but far more evident here. In this world, siblings and children are often given very similar names, often, a child will have the same name as a parent or sibling with just one letter changed. Worse, some, grandsons and other relatives are often given exactly the same name as an ancestor, in their honour. GRRM is also prone to giving us long lists of names, often of people of whom we never hear again. The result is an utterly confusing conglomeration of names and characters of such complexity that it's extremely difficult to keep straight who's who.
So, having reeled off a long list of grumbles, I must also say that this is still a GRRM Ice & Fire book and, as such, I wouldn't have missed it for the world (this world or the fantasy one). Will I buy the 'volume 2' if and when GRRM gets around to writing it? Yes, of course I will!
So here's the test. If you aren't such a fan of the books that you don't already have your own maps of Westeros, don't bother buying this book. But if, like me, you do, then lap it up as the nerd that you truly are!

What an absolute money cow. I'm fuming.
