Fire&Blood von George R. R. Martin
300 Years Before A Game of Thrones

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 752 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Verlag: Penguin Random HouseRandom House Worlds
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781524796303

I love itsomuch.Fire&Bloodis Martin Unbound . . . and I couldn t put it down. . . . There s an addictive quality to the prose that s outright gossipy. . . . The obvious comparison here is J.R.R. Tolkien sThe Silmarillion. . . . Writing centuries after the events he s describing, the Gyldayn voice complicates this game of thrones with a clash of perspectives and a storm of debatable facts. . . . Heavy stuff, butFire&Bloodflies.Entertainment Weekly<br><br>A brilliant book . . . vivid, memorable and personal.The Times<br><br>Lean and efficient and slyly seductive and instructive . . . The text is filled with such a wealth of incident and so many colorful characters.Locus<br><br>The overall narrative of the book is wonderfully fluid. . . .Fire&Bloodwas a great surprise to me. I found myself becoming deeply emotionally invested in the Targaryens, thrilling when they achieved great victories and lamenting when they succumbed to their more idiotic desires. (And they have alotof idiotic desires.) This bookfeelslike A Song of Ice and Fire. And you know how I know? Because I want the next book right away.Tordotcom<br><br>An absolutely irresistible, dragon-filled delight.Bustle<br><br>[There are] treasures hidden in this new Targaryen history.Vanity Fair<br><br>The world of ice and fire only gets more fascinating the more we learn about it.Mashable<br><br>Martin is still a powerfully gifted, inventive writer. . . . [Fire&Blood] has hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, ranging from the cruel fate of a jester named Tom Turnip to a dragon that, tellingly, refuses to venture beyond the Wall. . . .Fire&Bloodis a lavish object, with charts, family trees, and stunning illustrations by comic book artist Doug Wheatley. . . . In this sense it fits into a venerable tradition, from J.R.R. Tolkien in hisSilmarillionto Diana Gabaldon in her companion to the Outlander series.USA Today<br><br>[Fire&Blood] explores the dragon-fueled secrets upon which the current saga is built.The Hollywood Reporter<br><br>Martin has done it again. . . . [Fire&Bloodis] a beautiful weaving of the wars, marriages, deaths, dragons, and politics that shape the world Martin has created, leaving the reader feeling like this is a true history rather than a piece of fantasy. This is a masterpiece of world-building. . . . Beyond Martin s legions of fans, anyone with a taste for richly, even obsessively detailed historical fiction or fantasy about royalty will enjoy this extraordinary work.Booklist(starred review)Several years had passed since the king had last made a progress, so plans were laid in 58 AC for Jaehaerys and Alysanne to make their first visit to Winterfell and the North. Their dragons would be with them, of course, but beyond the Neck the distances were great and the roads poor, and the king had grown tired of flying ahead and waiting for his escort to catch up. This time, he decreed, his Kingsguard, servants, and retainers would go ahead of him, to make things ready for his arrival. And thus it was that three ships set sail from King s Landing for White Harbor, where he and the queen were to make their first stop.<br><br>The gods and the Free Cities had other plans, however. Even as the king s ships were beating their way north, envoys from Pentos and Tyrosh called upon His Grace in the Red Keep. The two cities had been at war for three years and were now desirous of making peace, but could not agree on where they might meet to discuss terms. The conflict had caused serious disruption to trade upon the narrow sea, to the extent that King Jaehaerys had offered both cities his help in ending their hostilities. After long discussion, the Archon of Tyrosh and the Prince of Pentos had agreed to meet in King s Landing to settle their differences, provided that Jaehaerys would act as an intermediary between them, and guarantee the terms of any resulting treaty.<br><br>It was a proposal that neither the king nor his council felt he could refuse, but it would mean postponing His Grace s planned progress to the North, and there was concern that the notoriously prickly Lord of Winterfell might take that for a slight. Queen Alysanne provided the solution. She would go ahead as planned, alone, whilst the king played host to the Prince and Archon. Jaehaerys could join her at Winterfell as soon as the peace had been concluded. And so it was agreed.<br><br>Queen Alysanne s travels began in the city of White Harbor, where tens of thousands of northerners turned out to cheer her and gape at Silverwing with awe, and a bit of terror. It was the first time any of them had seen a dragon. The size of the crowds surprised even their lord. I had not known there were so many smallfolk in the city, Theomore Manderly is reported to have said. Where did they all come from?<br><br>The Manderlys were unique amongst the great houses of the North. Having originated in the Reach centuries before, they had found refuge near the mouth of the White Knife when rivals drove them from their rich lands along the Mander. Though fiercely loyal to the Starks of Winterfell, they had brought their own gods with them from the south, and still worshipped the Seven and kept the traditions of knighthood. Alysanne Targaryen, ever desirous of binding the Seven Kingdoms closer together, saw an opportunity in Lord Theomore s famously large family, and promptly set about arranging marriages. By the time she took her leave, two of her ladies-in-waiting had been betrothed to his lordship s younger sons and a third to a nephew; his eldest daughter and three nieces, meanwhile, had been added to the queen s own party, with the understanding that they would travel south with her and there be pledged to suitable lords and knights of the king s court.<br><br>Lord Manderly entertained the queen lavishly. At the welcoming feast an entire aurochs was roasted, and his lordship s daughter Jessamyn acted as the queen s cupbearer, filling her tankard with a strong northern ale that Her Grace pronounced finer than any wine she had ever tasted. Manderly also staged a small tourney in the queen s honor, to show the prowess of his knights. One of the fighters (though no knight) was revealed to be a woman, a wildling girl who had been captured by rangers north of the Wall and given to one of Lord Manderly s household knights to foster. Delighted by the girl s daring, Alysanne su#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERThe thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO sGame of Thronesprequel seriesHouse of the Dragon<br><br>The thrill ofFire&Bloodis the thrill of all Martin s fantasy work: familiar myths debunked, the whole trope table flipped.Entertainment Weekly<br><br>Centuries before the events ofA Game of Thrones,House Targaryen the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria took up residence on Dragonstone.Fire&Bloodbegins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.<br><br>What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty-five black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley including five illustrations exclusive to the trade paperback edition. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes asThe World of Ice&Fire,but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.<br><br>With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon sThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire&Bloodis the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.<br><br>Praise forFire&Blood<br><br>A masterpiece of popular historical fiction.The Sunday Times<br><br>The saga is a rich and dark one, full of both the title s promised elements. . . . It s hard not to thrill to the descriptions of dragons engaging in airborne combat, or the dilemma of whether defeated rulers should bend the knee, take the black and join the Night s Watch, or simply meet an inventive and horrible end.The Guardian1USGeorge R. R. Martinis the #1New York Timesbestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and FireA Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows,andA Dance with Dragonsas well asTuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven(with Lisa Tuttle),andDreamsongs Volumes IandII. He is also the creator ofThe Lands of Ice and Fire,a collection of maps featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, andThe World of Ice&Fire,with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson. As a writer-producer, he has worked onThe Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast,and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<br> <br>Doug Wheatleyis a comic book artist, concept designer, and illustrator who has worked on such properties and characters asStar Wars, Aliens,Superman, The Incredible Hulk, and Conan the Barbarian, to name just a few. Wheatley was the artist on the comic book adaptation of the filmStar Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sithand contributed illustrations toThe World of Ice&Fire.

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