Fire and Blood

Set three-hundred years prior to the events of "A Song Of Ice & Fire", the history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn is given here, comparable in scope and grandeur to Gibbon's "The History Of The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire", presenting the history of Westeros in a dynamic new light.

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.