Back in 2014, long before HBO's "Game of Thrones" was close to wrapping, Martin spoke about "The Winds of Winter" in an interview with Vanity Fair. The author said that he hoped the HBO series would combine the narratives of the fourth and fifth books in the series, "A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance with Dragons," into at least several seasons
Dawn Age (Beginning Around -12000 AC) This was the beginning of Westeros; when the First Men arrived from Essos. The Children of the Forest were the first ones to live there, and it’s still unknown exactly how long they did live in Westeros for; but the First Men came and took over, crossing into the land that would eventually become Dorne.
The first episode of the series picks up in 112 AC (after a first scene prelude in 101 AC) , during the reign of Viserys I. This is almost 200 years before the first episode of Game of Thrones In June 2018, it was announced that HBO had ordered a pilot for the first of many Game of Thrones spin-offs, It’s going to be a huge book, and I still have a long way to go.” Good point, I also noticed that in the early books, you alternate between long and short chapters. For example Arya's chapter at the Red Wedding is only 5 pages long while Tyrion's Purple Wedding chapter has 23 pages. In Feast and Dance, all chapters seem to be equally long, even those who have little to tell us.
The first book ‘A Game of Thrones’ was published on August 1, 1996; the second book ‘ A Clash of Kings’ was published on November 16, 1998; the third book, which was divided into two parts
There are 335 deaths in the first 5 books of the series. This works out as a death roughly every 35 minutes for more than 8 days straight in the audiobook version. A Storm of Swords is the deadliest book so far with 97 deaths and a death every 10 pages. However, A Clash of Kings averages a death every 9 pages.
The Long Night (In the Books) During the Age of Heroes, anywhere from six to eight thousand years previous to this latest showdown with the Night King, perpetual darkness spread across the entire
Back when Game of Thrones premiered on HBO in 2011, defying both the odds and the network’s wariness, author George R.R. Martin was a few months away from releasing the fifth novel in his Song
