George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps from A Song of Ice and Fire featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire (with Elio M. Garcia, Jr., and Linda Antonsson). He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Praise for George R. R. Martin and A Song of Ice and Fire One of the best series in the history of fantasy. --Los Angeles Times <p/> Long live George Martin . . . a literary dervish, enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language, and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers. --The New York Times <p/> The only fantasy series I'd put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . . . It's a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who don't read fantasy. --Chicago Tribune <p/> Martin amply fulfills the first volume's promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written. --The Denver Post, on A Clash of Kings <p/> Martin has produced--is producing, since the series isn't over--the great fantasy epic of our era. It's an epic for a more profane, more jaded, more ambivalent age than the one Tolkien lived in. --Lev Grossman, Time <p/> Addictive . . . George R. R. Martin has created the unlikely genre of the realpolitik fantasy novel. --Rolling Stone, on A Feast for Crows <p/> Epic fantasy as it should be written: passionate, compelling, convincingly detailed and thoroughly imagined. --The Washington Post, on A Dance with Dragons I always expect the best from George R. R. Martin, and he always delivers. --Robert Jordan