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The series' structure of multiple POVs and interwoven storylines was inspired by Wild Cards, a multi-authored shared universe book series edited by Martin since 1985. million copies of the first four volumes in print in early 2011, [55] the four volumes re-appeared on the paperback fiction bestseller lists in the second quarter of 2011. Reuters reported in September 2013 that the books including print, digital and audio versions have sold more than 24 million copies in North America. Putting Avalon aside, Martin finished this chapter in a few days and grew certain that it was part of a longer story. A Storm of Swords was 1,521 pages in manuscript (without appendices), [36] causing problems for many of Martin's publishers around the world.

In Martin's eyes, literary effective magic needs to represent strange and dangerous forces beyond human comprehension, [61] not advanced alien technologies or formulaic spells.The three dragons soon become not only a symbol of her bloodline and her claim to the throne, but also devastating weapons of war, which help her in the conquest of Slaver's Bay.

Each chapter is told from a limited third-person perspective, drawn from a group of characters that grows from nine in the first novel to 31 by the fifth. In 2015, Martin said that he was not writing A Dream of Spring together with The Winds of Winter, [77] and in early 2016, he said he did not believe A Dream of Spring would be published before the last season of the HBO show.

With the popularity of the series growing, HBO optioned A Song of Ice and Fire for a television adaptation in 2007. million copies in print and digital overall in July 2011, [135] and over 12 million sold copies in print in December 2011. The family names were designed in association with ethnic groups (see backstory): the First Men in the North of Westeros had very simply descriptive names like Stark and Strong, whereas the descendants of the Andal invaders in the South have more elaborate, undescriptive house names like Lannister or Arryn, and the Targaryens and Valyrians from the Eastern continent have the most exotic names with the letter Y. Influenced by his television and film scripting background, Martin tries to keep readers engrossed by ending each A Song of Ice and Fire chapter with a tense or revelational moment, a twist or a cliffhanger, similar to a TV act break. Separated from his loving girlfriend, it’s a fight to stay alive as she tries to figure out what the hell is going on and why everyone in this sleepy patch of rural Ireland is bloodthirsty, deranged or both.