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Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) (udgave 2018)

af George R. R. Martin (Forfatter), Doug Wheatley (Illustrator)

Serier: A Song of Ice and Fire (prequel 1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO??s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon

??The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin??s fantasy work: familiar myths debunked, the whole trope table flipped.???Entertainment Weekly
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen??the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria??took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel??s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley??including five all-new illustrations exclusive to this edition. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon??s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.
Includes a bonus PDF of illustrations from the book
Praise for Fire & Blood
??A masterpiece of popular historical fiction.???The Sunday Times
??The saga is a rich and dark one, full of both the title??s promised elements. . . . It??s hard not to thrill to the descriptions of dragons engaging in airborne combat, or the dilemma of whether defeated rulers should ??bend the knee,?? ??take the black?? and join the Night??s Watch, or si
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Titel:Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Forfattere:George R. R. Martin (Forfatter)
Andre forfattere:Doug Wheatley (Illustrator)
Info:Bantam (2018), Edition: Illustrated, 736 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
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Fire and Blood: A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III af George R. R. Martin

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Ok I didn’t really finish this book. I read one chapter and that’s all I could stand. It’s not really a narrative story so much as the worst, most boring textbook ever ( )
  corliss12000 | Mar 16, 2024 |
Written like a history book. Easy to read. I found this very interesting. ( )
  amethystangel777 | Feb 28, 2024 |
This is phenomenal--just don't go into it thinking it's like the main series.

In short, this is a "history" book. It's a scholar compiling accounts of the earlier Targaryans. So it reads more like a textbook. There are multiple accounts of the same scenarios as this scholar pulls from different sources, and the veracity of various ones are up for debate. But if you go into it seeing it for what it is--an extra lore book--this is a great read. It's got great art, neat family trees, further accounts of things that were mentioned in the books but not really delved into, and so on. ( )
  MrKusabi | Feb 23, 2024 |
The best way to describe this 740-page work is as a fictional historical generational saga. I read the five-part A Song of Fire & Ice series after I saw the first season of A Game of Thrones on HBO, and I do not think I would have been able to keep track of all the characters in the books if I had not seen the show and had some kind of visual memory. Although this is not the much-awaited sixth book in the A Song of Fire & Ice series, The Winds of Winter, Fire & Blood does continue that Westerosi fantasy world building in the other direction: it starts about 300 years before the first events in A Game of Thrones, when Aegon I and his sister-wives, Rhaenys and Visenya, conquered Westeros on their dragons. It is their descendants who come to rule over Westeros for the rest of the next three centuries.

This prequel (I use that term loosely) is written as a fictional history compiled by one of the scholars from Oldtown’s Citadel, Archmaester Gyldayn. As such, it is at times as dry, impersonal, and hard to follow as any high school pre-digested history book, although there are amusing commentaries by the Archmaester when he cites his (fictional) sources, mostly other maesters and archmaesters and an interesting dwarf, who was a court fool for years, named Mushroom. I did struggle to stay with this book at times, because of this sometimes boring, detached narrative style, and I struggled to care what happened to the wretched characters, perhaps, in part because it was dry history rather than some omniscient narrator giving us their inner thoughts and feelings. For this reason, the characters were largely two-dimensional, at best, and I could not invest myself in their lives the way I might otherwise have. In this case, I am counting on the upcoming HBO series, House of the Dragons, to strip away the unnecessary details and focus on some character development that would help make the story more memorable.

Largely, this tome is the glorious, ruinous history of the Targaryen family in Westeros over the first 150 years after the conquering by Daenerys Targaryen’s great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather (I have no idea if I have the right number of “greats” as the bloodline veers back and forth over generations). Apparently, a second book is planned, as the events in this book cover only half the pre-Fire & Ice period, according to the timeline at the back of the book, which takes us closer to the events at the beginning of A Game of Thrones. Also, apparently, in an interview Martin himself referred to this planned duology as his “GRRM-arillion,” in a nod to J.R.R. Tolkein’s Silmarillion (which was put together posthumously by Tolkein’s son, Christopher, from background writings and notes Tolkein had saved during his writings of the Ring Trilogy). This book dragged at times – a lot of times, actually, and I had trouble staying with it – but then had stellar moments.

Like the Song of Fire & Ice series, there is a lot of sex, murder, political intrigue, war, spectacular dragon fights, arranged (often fatalistic) marriages, ambiguous moral characters, sexual assault, illegitmate vs. trueborn royal children. As with that series, though, it is sometimes over the top for me, e.g., whole cities of women being violently raped and pillaged, hideous maiming, etc. On the other hand, there were women in this book, not necessarily only those with dragons, who had far more agency than the women in later Westeros.

And I would be remiss if I did not comment on the spectacular black-and-white illustrations by Doug Wheatley. I would say that depictions of some of the characters helped, but they each occupied such a short period of time that remembering them was still hard. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Kurb öelda, aga jäi pooleli. Ma saan täitsa aru, et Martin üritas siin natuke oma Silmarillioni kokku kirjutada, aga käed ja mõte jäid lühikeseks.
Üks punkti rohkem varaemate saavutuste eest. Ja üks avansiks, ka sest vbl ma kunagi ikkagi loen selle lõpuni, äkki polnud praegu lihtsalt hetk õige.
Ja no pildid. Kolmas punkt selle eest :) ( )
  sashery | Jan 29, 2024 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO??s upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon

??The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin??s fantasy work: familiar myths debunked, the whole trope table flipped.???Entertainment Weekly
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen??the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria??took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel??s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley??including five all-new illustrations exclusive to this edition. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon??s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.
Includes a bonus PDF of illustrations from the book
Praise for Fire & Blood
??A masterpiece of popular historical fiction.???The Sunday Times
??The saga is a rich and dark one, full of both the title??s promised elements. . . . It??s hard not to thrill to the descriptions of dragons engaging in airborne combat, or the dilemma of whether defeated rulers should ??bend the knee,?? ??take the black?? and join the Night??s Watch, or si

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