Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Genre/Form: | Fiction |
---|---|
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George R R Martin; John Hodgman |
ISBN: | 9780008209100 0008209103 |
OCLC Number: | 970819181 |
Notes: | Colour maps on lining papers. Originally published : 1996. |
Description: | xi, 880 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | George R.R. Martin ; foreword by John Hodgman. |
Abstract:
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best ... tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine 'The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads ...Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias'Guardian 'Colossal, staggering ... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world ... The writing is always powerful ...' SFX 'Truly epic ... with its magnificent action-filled climax, it provides a banquet for fantasy lovers with large appetites.'Publishers Weekly Read more...

