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A Game of Thrones Author George R. R. MartinCountry United StatesLanguage EnglishSeries A Song of Ice and FireGenre(s) FantasyPublisher Bantam Books (US)Voyager Books (UK)Released 6 August 1996Cover Artist Steve YoullMedia Type Print (Hardback & Paperbackaudiobook & e-bookPages 694 (US Hardback)672 (UK Hardcover)835 (US Paperback)804 (UK Paperback)ISBN ISBN 0334390000 (US Hardback)ISBN 0334390000 (UK Hardback)ISBN 0334390000 (US Paperback)ISBN 000647988X (UK Paperback)Followed by A Clash of KingsPurchase A Game of ThronesA Game of Thrones is the first of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on 6 August 1996. The novel was nominated for the 1998 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award,[1] and won the 1997 Locus Award.[2] The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

Plot introduction

A Game of Thrones is set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, a land reminiscent of Medieval Europe. In Westeros the seasons last for years, sometimes decades, at a time.Reading: who is edmure tullyFifteen years prior to the novel, the Seven Kingdoms were torn apart by a civil war, known alternately as “Robert’s Rebellion” and the “War of the Usurper.” Prince Rhaegar Targaryen kidnapped Lyanna Stark, arousing the ire of her family and of her betrothed, Lord Robert Baratheon (the war’s titular rebel). The Mad King, Aerys II Targaryen, had Lyanna’s father and eldest brother executed when they demanded her safe return. Her second brother, Eddard, joined his boyhood friend Robert Baratheon and Jon Arryn, with whom they had been fostered as children, in declaring war against the ruling Targaryen dynasty, securing the allegiances of House Tully and House Arryn through a network of dynastic marriages (Lord Eddard to Catelyn Tully and Lord Arryn to Lysa Tully). The powerful House Tyrell continued to support the King, but House Lannister and House Martell both stalled due to insults against their houses by the Targaryens. The civil war climaxed with the Battle of the Trident, when Prince Rhaegar was killed in battle by Robert Baratheon. The Lannisters finally agreed to support King Aerys, but then brutally turned against him, sacking the capital at King’s Landing. Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard betrayed and murdered King Aerys and House Lannister swore loyalty to Robert Baratheon. The Tyrells and remaining royalists surrendered and Robert Baratheon was declared King of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately, during the war, Lyanna Stark had died, apparently of illness shortly after her brother captured the fortress where she’d been held captive; Robert Baratheon instead married Cersei Lannister to cement the alliance with her House. Despite Robert’s victory, the Mad King’s younger son Viserys and only daughter Daenerys were taken to safety across the sea by loyal retainers. After the war House Martell chose a path of isolation, since Prince Doran’s sister Elia Martell (Prince Rhaegar’s wife) and her young children had been killed by knights sworn to House Lannister during the storming of the capital.Six years later, King Robert proved his resolve by defeating a rebellion by Lord Balon Greyjoy of the Iron Islands. Balon’s two eldest sons were killed and his youngest son, Theon, was given to the care of Eddard Stark as a ward.

Plot summary

A Game of Thrones follows three principal storylines as they develop in tandem with one another. The most storylines begin in the year 298 AC (After Conquest), whilst the prologue takes place in 297 AC. The story continues for many months, until 299 AC.

In the Seven Kingdoms

Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, performs the execution of a man of the Night’s Watch who has betrayed his vows and fled from the Wall. His sons Robb and Bran, his bastard son Jon Snow, and his ward Theon Greyjoy all attend. After the beheading, Robb finds a dead direwolf (the sigil of House Stark), killed by the antlers of a stag (the sigil of House Baratheon), which had given birth to five pups before it died. Robb and his brothers ask to keep them and Eddard consents, on the condition that the children themselves take care of them, rather than leaving the matter to the servants of House Stark. There are five pups, one for each of Eddard’s trueborn children: Robb names his Grey Wind and Bran names his Summer, whilst Eddard’s daughters Sansa and Arya name theirs Lady and Nymeria respectively. Eddard’s youngest, three-year-old Rickon, names his Shaggydog. Unexpectedly, Jon finds a sixth pup lying separately nearby: an albino runt with white fur and red eyes. Jon claims this one, Ghost, for himself.King Robert I Baratheon arrives at Winterfell with his court and many retainers, including his wife, Queen Cersei of House Lannister, and his children: Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen. The queen’s twin brother, Ser Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard, and their younger brother Tyrion, the Imp (so named for his dwarfism), also accompany the group. Robert asks Eddard to become the new Hand of the King after the death of the previous office holder, Lord Jon Arryn. Eddard agrees and travels south with his daughters Sansa and Arya, leaving Catelyn, Robb, Bran (now in a coma after a grievous fall from a window) and Rickon at home. Jon Snow elects to travel north to the Wall to join the Night’s Watch and is joined by Tyrion, who is eager to see the fabled construction for himself.Read more: who is leaving young and restless | Top Q&ACatelyn Stark learns from her sister Lysa Arryn (widow of the late Lord Jon Arryn) that the Lannisters had Jon Arryn murdered. After Eddard leaves for the south, an attempt is made on Bran’s life, thwarted only by the direwolf Summer. Catelyn realizes that Bran must have seen something and been pushed from the window deliberately, and that the would-be murderers are trying to cover their tracks. She travels by sea to King’s Landing and learns from her childhood friend Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish that the dagger used in the assassination attempt was last seen in the hands of Tyrion Lannister. Traveling north again, Catelyn and her retainers encounter Tyrion by chance in an inn (as he returns south from the Wall) and take him captive to the Eyrie, where Lady Lysa places him on trial. Unfortunately, Tyrion chooses trial by combat and his champion, a sellsword named Bronn, wins freedom for him.In the capital of King’s Landing, Eddard investigates Jon’s death and learns that Jon Arryn and King Robert’s brother, Lord Stannis Baratheon, had discovered that Robert’s three children are actually the products of an incestuous liaison between Queen Cersei and her twin brother, Jaime. Spurning the advice of Robert’s youngest brother, Renly, to take Cersei into custody, Eddard instead offers mercy, telling Cersei to flee. King Robert dies of a mishap whilst hunting in the kingswood and Cersei’s eldest son Joffrey is proclaimed king before Eddard can pass the crown to Stannis, Robert’s true heir. When Eddard moves against Cersei, he is betrayed by Littlefinger. Eddard reluctantly agrees to sign a false confession of treason in return for Sansa and Arya’s lives and the chance to go into exile on the Wall. Instead, Joffrey has Eddard brutally executed. Whilst Sansa is retained in custody, Arya manages to escape with the help of her fencing instructor, Syrio Forel, and Yoren, a recruiting agent for the Night’s Watch.A civil war, later dubbed the War of the Five Kings, erupts. Robb Stark leads an army of northmen into the riverlands to support Lord Hoster Tully, whose forces had come under attack by Lord Tywin Lannister after Catelyn took Tyrion prisoner. Riverrun, the Tully stronghold, is besieged by an army under Jaime Lannister, whilst Lord Tywin holds a large army south of the Trident to prevent Robb’s advance. Unexpectedly, Robb wins the support of House Frey by agreeing to a dynastic marriage. This allows him to detach his cavalry and cross the Green Fork whilst his infantry carries on to the Trident under Lord Roose Bolton, one of Robb’s bannermen. Tywin, joined by the liberated Tyrion (who has won the support of the mountain clans of the Vale) defeats the Stark foot along the Green Fork before learning that Robb has outmaneuvered him. Shortly afterwards Robb’s forces surprise and capture Jaime Lannister before smashing the Lannister army at the Whispering Wood north of Riverrun. Tywin falls back on the strong castle of Harrenhal and orders Tyrion to go to King’s Landing and counsel King Joffrey I, acting as Hand in his stead.Lord Renly Baratheon flees south from King’s Landing to Highgarden, stronghold of the powerful House Tyrell, and there is declared king by acclamation, becoming the second of the war’s five kings. Robb Stark becomes the third, when he is proclaimed the King in the North by the Stark and Tully bannermen present at Riverrun.

On the Wall

In the lands beyond the Wall, three men of the Night’s Watch stumble across the massacred bodies of wildlings. Ser Waymar Royce is confronted by several creatures of ice, the fabled ‘Others’ of legend. He fights one, but is killed. The second man, Will, investigates Waymar’s corpse only for it to come to life and strangle him. The third, Gared, is so terrified of what he sees that he flees south to the Wall and then beyond. He is the deserter executed by Eddard Stark in the first chapter of the book.Jon Snow chooses to join the Night’s Watch when his father departs for King’s Landing and travels north with his uncle Benjen Stark, the First Ranger of the Watch. At the Wall Jon finds that the Watch is beset with problems. A new King-Beyond-the-Wall has arisen in the far northern lands to rally the wildlings to his banner. This man, Mance Rayder, was once a brother of the Watch before fleeing to join the wildlings. Jon also learns that the Watch is grievously under strength, mustering barely a thousand men to cover the three hundred miles of the Wall, and its manpower is now made up of murderers and criminals who chose the Wall over execution or imprisonment. Some time after Jon’s arrival, Benjen vanishes whilst on a ranging beyond the Wall.Jon and many of the other younger men are remorselessly bullied by the master-at-arms, Alliser Thorne, but Jon concocts a plan for them to stand up to him. Jon wins the friendship of Samwell Tarly, a craven but intelligent boy from the Reach, and also that of Maester Aemon. Jon is startled to learn that Aemon is a member of House Targaryen, the grand-uncle of the now-deposed Mad King Aerys II Targaryen, and the oldest man alive in Westeros.Read more: Who was the most popular president in ncr historyThe Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, Jeor Mormont, is attacked by a corpse which suddenly comes back to life. Jon burns the wight, saving Mormont’s life. Shaken, Mormont resolves to lead the Watch beyond the Wall in strength to test Mance Rayder’s strength. Although news of his father’s death and brother’s war causes Jon to doubt his calling, he decides his place is with the Watch.

In the East

In the Free City of Pentos, Magister Illyrio Mopatis and the exiled Prince Viserys Targaryen conspire to marry Viserys’s thirteen-year-old sister Daenerys to Khal Drogo of the Dothraki. Drogo commands a horde of forty thousand mounted warriors whom Viserys plans to use to reclaim his homeland from the usurper Robert I Baratheon. Among the wedding gifts are three petrified dragon eggs from Illyrio. Unexpectedly, Daenerys and Drogo find love as they journey east into the vast grasslands of the Dothraki sea, and Daenerys becomes pregnant with a son, to be named Rhaego after her dead brother. Ser Jorah Mormont, son of Lord Commander Mormont and a knight exiled from Westeros for dealing in slaves, joins Viserys’s entourage as an adviser on the current state of the Seven Kingdoms.Viserys becomes angry about how long he must wait before Drogo decides to invade Westeros and, in a drunken rage, insults Drogo grievously. Drogo decides to crown him on the spot — with molten gold. Daenerys picks up her brother’s quest to reclaim the Iron Throne, but Drogo is just as obstinate with the moon of his life as he was with the Beggar King. The tables turn when a Westerosi assassin, in the pay of King Robert, nearly kills her and their unborn child; a furious Drogo agrees to invade Westeros. However, during a raid on the peaceful Lhazareen to fund their invasion, Drogo takes a wound fighting a rival khal. Daenerys loses both Drogo and her unborn son to the machinations of a Lhazareen witch, and has the witch burned in Drogo’s funeral pyre. Daenerys had previously felt the eggs and found them warm to her touch, but not to others’. Before she had placed them in a small fire and thought that the flames made something in the eggs alive. While the witch was being burned she placed the eggs in the blazing fire. Incredibly, the eggs hatch, and Daenerys Targaryen, the Stormborn, becomes mother to the first three dragons seen in the world for one hundred and sixty years.

Viewpoint Characters

All of the novels in the series use a system for the books where by each chapter concentrates on one character in a third person limited point of view. Thus, the chapter list for each book would read something like: “Bran”, “Eddard”, “Catelyn”, “Eddard”, “Tyrion”, “Catelyn” etc, with the story flipping back and forth between the main characters.The tale of A Game of Thrones is told through the eyes of eight POV characters and a one-off prologue POV.

• Prologue: Will, a man of the Night’s Watch.
• Lord Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell, Warden of the North, and Hand of the King.
• Lady Catelyn Stark, of House Tully, wife of Eddard Stark.
• Sansa Stark, eldest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
• Arya Stark, youngest daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
• Bran Stark, middle of three sons of Eddard and Catelyn Stark.
• Jon Snow, bastard son of Eddard Stark.
• Tyrion Lannister, a dwarf, son of Lord Tywin Lannister and Queen Cersei’s brother.
• Daenerys Targaryen, Stormborn, the Princess of Dragonstone and heiress to the Targaryen throne through her older brother Viserys.

Allusions/references to other works

One of Martin’s earliest attempts at writing a fantasy story was ‘Dark Gods of Kor-Yuban’, which was never published. The two heroes of the short story are the exiled ‘Prince R’hllor of Raugg’ and his boisterous, swaggering companion ‘Argilac the Arrogant’. In an abandoned sequel Argilac teams up with Barron, the Bloody Blade of the Dothrak Empire, to slay the winged demons who killed Barron’s grandfather Barristan the Bold. Most of these names reoccur in A Game of Thrones: R’hllor is the red god worshiped in the east (although not specifically named until A Clash of Kings); Argilac the Arrogant was the last Storm King thrown down by the Targaryens; the Dothrak Empire became the Dothraki horse-riders of the eastern plains; and Barristan the Bold was recast as Ser Barristan Selmy of the Kingsguard. Martin covers the origin of these characters and names in his essay ‘The Heirs of Turtle Castle’ in Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective.

Literary significance & criticism

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Awards and nominations

• Locus Award – Best Novel (Fantasy) (Won) – (1997)
• World Fantasy Award – Best Novel (Nominated) – (1997)
• Hugo Award – Best Novella for Blood of the Dragon (Won) – (1997)
• Nebula Award – Best Novel (Nominated) – (1997)
• Ignotus Award – Best Novel (Foreign) (Won) – (2003)

Derived works

The novel lends its name to several spin-off items based on it, including the television adaptation Game of Thrones, a trading card game, a board game, and a roleplaying game.

Editions

Foreign language editions

• French: two volumes (hardcover: Pygmalion (1998, 1999); paperback: J’ai Lu (2001)) “Le trône de fer”, “Le donjon rouge”.
• Russian: single volume, AST (2001, 2004, 2007): “Игра престолов”. Two volumes, AST (1999): “Игра престолов. Книга 1”, “Игра престолов. Книга 2”.
• Chinese: “权力的游戏”: pinyin: “Quánlì de Yóuxì”; literally “game of power” (Chongqing Publishing, 2005)

Additional versions

• Bulgarian: “Игра на тронове”
• Catalan: “La mà del rei” (“The Hand of the King”) (Devir Contenidos, 2006)
• Croatian: “Igra prijestolja”
• Czech: “Hra o trůny”
• Dutch: Luitingh-Sijthoff (1997): “Het spel der tronen”
• Estonian: two volumes, Varrak (2006): “Troonide mäng”
• Finnish: “Valtaistuinpeli” (2003)
• German: single volume, Fantasy Productions (2004): “Eisenthron” (“Iron Throne”). Two volumes, Goldmann (1997, 1998): “Die Herren von Winterfell” (“The Lord of Winterfell”), “Das Erbe von Winterfell” (The Legacy of Winterfell)
• Greek: two volumes, Anubis (2004): “Παιχνίδι του στέμματος” (Game of the Crown)
• Hebrew: משחקי הכס
• Hungarian: single volume, Alexandra: “Trónok harca”
• Italian: two volumes, Mondadori (hardcover: 1999, 2000; paperback: 2001): “Il trono di spade” (“The Throne of Swords”), “Il grande inverno” (“The Great Winter”); as a single volume titled “Il gioco del trono” in the collection Urania Fantasy — Le grandi saghe (July 2007)
• Japanese: “七王国の玉座” (“The Seven Kingdoms’ Throne”) Hayakawa Publishing 2002 hardcover, 2 volumes; 2006 softcover, 5 volumes.
• Korean: “왕좌의 게임”
• Macedonian: “Игра на тронови”
• Norwegian: two volumes, “I vargens tid” (“In the time of the wolf”) 2011, “Kampen om jerntronen” (“The battle of the iron throne”) 2011; as a single volume titled “En sang om is og ild: Komplett Bok 1” (“A Song of Ice and Fire: Complete book 1”)2013
• Polish: Zysk i S-ka (1998): “Gra o tron”
• Portuguese: two volumes: Saída de Emergência (2007): “A Guerra dos Tronos” (“The War of Thrones”), “A Muralha de Gelo” (“The Ice Wall”). Partial and pirate edition: Entre Letras Editora (2002): “A Muralha” (“The Wall”) (1st part only). In Brazil, Editora Leya (2010): “A Guerra dos Tronos: As Crônicas de Gelo e Fogo, Livro Um” (“The War of Thrones: The Chronicles of Ice and Fire, Book One”)
• Romanian: two volumes: “Urzeala tronurilor” (2007)
• Serbian: Laguna (2003): “Igra Prestola”
• Slovak: “Hra o tróny”
• Slovene: “Igra prestolov” (2007)
• Spanish: Gigamesh (2002): “Juego de tronos”
• Swedish: two volumes, Forum: “I vargens tid” (“In the time of the wolf”), “Kampen om järntronen” (“The battle of the iron throne”). Single volume, Forum (2005): “Kampen om järntronen”
• Turkish: Buz ve Ateşin Şarkısı Serisi: “Taht Oyunları” (2005)
• Turkish: Buz ve Ateşin Şarkısı I: “Taht Oyunları” (Epsilon Publishing, 2011) (New edition)
• Hungarian: Trónok harca (Clash of Thrones)

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