George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as screenplays for television and feature films. Dubbed 'the American Tolkien', George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer on HBO's Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
'A masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES 'An epic take, viewed from soaring heights' DAILY MAIL 'A feast of pure imagination' SFX 'The sheer detail of the richly layered world [Martin] has created is astonishing, with narrative twists and turns aplenty' SUNDAY EXPRESS PRAISE FOR A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: 'Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best' TIME MAGAZINE 'Colossal, staggering...Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome' SFX 'Martin's style is so vivid that you will be hooked within a few pages' THE TIMES 'I always expect the best from George R.R. Martin and he always delivers' ROBERT JORDAN