George R. R. Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
`In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best'Time Magazine`An absorbing, exciting read ... Martin's style is so vivid that you will be hooked within a few pages'The Times`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'SFX