Daedelus Award for 1987: Wild Cards. Six-time winner of the Locus Award. Finalist for the 1971 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. World Fantasy Award (Howard) finalist for 1982, 1983. Finalist for the Writers Guild Award, best teleplay, anthology series, for 1986. All photographs (c) George R. R. Martin and/or their
On Wednesday morning, HBO’s official Game of Thrones Twitter account cryptically tweeted, the 10th anniversary of the publication of an interview in which author George R.R. Martin,A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award [2] and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award [2] and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. [3]
A new video by TED-Ed, the education initiative of the ideas-driven nonprofit, situates the story of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones in its proper historical frame. George RR Martin, the author
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is one of the most influential book series of recent decades, carving a new path for medieval fantasy with its Game of Thrones TV adaption.
A tour in the US to mark publication of the novel, A Game of Thrones, saw “modest” turnouts of readers, admits its author George RR Martin. At one stop-off, in St Louis, that number fell to zero. .