Name: Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones (The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon)
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Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: George R. R. Martin
ISBN: 9780593357538

portada Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones (The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon)

Type

Physical Book

Author

George R. R. Martin

Publisher

Bantam

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

800

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.3 x 10.4 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780593357538

Synopsis "Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones (The Targaryen Dynasty: The House of the Dragon)"

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO's 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. 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 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. 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 simply meet an inventive and horrible end."--The Guardian

George R. R. Martin

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Es escritor profesional desde 1979, se graduó de periodismo en la Northwestern University, y vive en Nuevo México. Es el autor de la afamada serie de fantasía épica Canción de hielo y fuego, en la que se ha basado la serie de HBO, Juego de Tronos.

Ha ganado diversos premios literarios, entre ellos: cuatro premios Hugo, dos Nebula, seis Locus Awards, el Bram Stoker, el World Fantasy Award, el Dedalus, Balrog y el Daikon.

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Lina M HerreraThursday, January 05, 2023
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" Llegó en excelentes condiciones. "
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Kevin ReyThursday, June 15, 2023
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" Great Prequel to A Song of Ice and Fire "
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