A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle

bear,
    â€”THE WEEPER, a raider and leader of a war band,
    â€”{ALFYN CROWKILLER}, a raider, slain by Qhorin Halfhand of the Night’s Watch,

    CRASTER, of Craster’s Keep, who kneels to none,
    â€”GILLY, his daughter and wife, great with child,
    â€”DYAH, FERNY, NELLA, three of his nineteen wives.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    If bricks aren’t well made, the wall falls down.
    This is an awfully big wall I’m building here, so I need a lot of bricks. Fortunately, I know a lot of brickmakers, and all sorts of other useful folk as well.
    Thanks and appreciation, once more, to those good friends who so kindly lent me their expertise (and in some cases, even their
books
) so my bricks would be nice and solid—to my Archmaester Sage Walker, to First Builder Carl Keim, to Melinda Snodgrass my master of horse.
    And as ever, to Parris.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    GEORGE R. R. MARTIN is the award-winning author of five novels, including
Fevre Dream
and
The Armageddon Rag
. For the last ten years, he has been a screenwriter for feature films and television and was the producer of the TV series
Beauty and the Beast
as well as a story editor for
The Twilight Zone
. After a ten-year hiatus, he has now returned to writing novels full-time and is presently at work on
A Feast of Crows
, the fourth book of his series.

ALSO BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
    A S ONG OF I CE AND F IRE
    Book One:
A Game of Thrones
    Book Two:
A Clash of Kings
    Dying of the Light
    Windhaven
(with Lisa Tuttle)
    Fevre Dream
    The Armageddon Rag
    Dead Man’s Hand
(with John J. Miller)
    S HORT S TORY C OLLECTIONS
    A Song for Lya and Other Stories
    Songs of Stars and Shadows
    Sandkings
    Songs the Dead Men Sing
    Nightflyers
    Tuf Voyaging
    Portraits of His Children
    Edited by George R. R. Martin
    New Voices in Science Fiction, Volumes 1–4
    The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book
    (with Isaac Asimov and Martin Harry Greenberg)
    The John W. Campbell Awards, Volume 5
    Night Visions 3
    Wild Cards I–XV

PRAISE FOR
A GAME OF THRONES
    â€œReminiscent of T. H. White’s
The Once and Future King
, this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweeping historical, and the intensely personal.”
    â€”Chicago Sun-Times
    â€œI always expect the best from George R. R. Martin, and he always delivers.
A Game of Thrones
grabs hold and won’t let go. It’s brilliant.”
    â€”Robert Jordan
    â€œSuch a splendid tale and such a fantistorical! I read my eyes out.”
    â€”Anne McCaffrey
    â€œMartin makes a triumphant return to high fantasy . . . [his] trophy case is already stuffed with major prizes, including Hugos, Nebulas, Locus Awards and a Bram Stoker. He’s probably going to have to add another shelf, at least.”
    â€”
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
    â€œA vast, rich saga, with splendid characters and an intricate plot flawlessly articulated against a backdrop of real depth and texture.”
    â€”Kirkus Reviews
    â€œThe keen and complex human characters and the convincing force of their surroundings operate as magic . . . setting George R. R. Martin’s first fantasy epic well above the norms of the genre.”
    â€”Locus Magazine
    â€œIt is perhaps the best of the epic fantasies—readable and realistic.”
    â€”Marion Zimmer Bradley
    â€œThe major fantasy of the decade . . . compulsively readable.”
    â€”The Denver Post
    â€œGeorge R. R. Martin is one of our very best science fiction writers, and this is one of his very best books.”
    â€”Raymond E. Feist
    â€œWe have been invited to a grand feast and pageant: George R. R. Martin has unveiled for us an intensely realized, romantic but realistic world . . . if the next two volumes are as good as this one, it will be a wonderful feast indeed.”
    â€”
Chicago Sun-Times
    â€œI would be very surprised if this is not the major fantasy publishing event of 1996, and I’m already impatient for the next installment.”
    â€”Science Fiction Chronicle
    â€œA colorful, majestic tapestry of characters, action and plot that deserves a spot on any reader’s wall . . . the pages seem to pass in a blur as you read.”
    â€”Albuquerque Journal
    â€œGeorge Martin is assuredly a new master craftsman in the guild of heroic fantasy.”
    â€”Katharine Kerr
    â€œ
A Game of Thrones
offers the rich tapestry that the very best fantasy demands: iron and steel within the silk, grandeur within the wonder, and