George R.R. Martin is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. David Palumbo is a Philadelphia-based painter known primarily for fantasy and horror genre illustration. His work is characterised by dark themes and moody atmosphere with a traditional painterly technique. His images have since won numerous honours and have been featured in exhibits from New York to Paris.
‘I always expect the best from George R. R. Martin, and he always delivers’ Robert Jordan ‘Of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien’ Time ‘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 ‘George R.R. Martin is one of our very best writers, and this is one of his very best books’ Raymond E. Feist Praise for A Song of Ice and Fire: 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best … tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time