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A SONG OFICE ANDFIRE

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN



A GAME OFTHRONES(1996)

A CLASH OFKINGS(1998)

A STORM OFSWORDS(2000)

A FEAST FORCROWS(forthcoming)

A DANCE WITHDRAGONS(forthcoming)

THEWINDS OFWINTER(forthcoming)



/A Song of Ice and Fire/began life as a trilogy, and has since expanded
to six books. As J. R. R. Tolkien once said, the tale grew in the telling.

The setting for the books is the great continent of Westeros, in a world
both like and unlike our own, where the seasons last for years and
sometimes decades. Standing hard against the sunset sea at the western
edge of the known world, Westeros stretches from the red sands of Dorne
in the south to the icy mountains and frozen fields of the north, where
snow falls even during the long summers.

The children of the forest were the first known inhabitants of Westeros,
during the Dawn of Days: a race small of stature who made their homes in
the greenwood, and carved strange faces in the bone-white weirwood
trees. Then came the First Men, who crossed a land bridge from the
larger continent to the east with their bronze swords and horses, and
warred against the children for centuries before finally making peace
with the older race and adopting their nameless, ancient gods. The
Compact marked the beginning of the Age of Heroes, when the First Men
and the children shared Westeros, and a hundred petty kingdoms rose and
fell.

Other invaders came in turn. The Andals crossed the narrow sea in ships,
and with iron and fire they swept across the kingdoms of the First Men,
and drove the children from their forests, putting many of the weirwoods
to the ax. They brought their own faith, worshiping a god with seven
aspects whose symbol was a seven-pointed star. Only in the far north did
the First Men, led by the Starks of Winterfell, throw back the
newcomers. Elsewhere the Andals triumphed, and raised kingdoms of their