Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Significantly, it was the first novel in the series to be nominated for the Hugo Award, one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy publishing, although it lost to J. In France, the decision was made to cut the novel into four separate editions.Ī Storm of Swords won the 2001 Locus Award and 2002 Geffen Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It was so long that in the UK its paperback edition was split in half, Part 1 being published as Steel and Snow in June 2001 (with the one-volume cover) and Part 2 as Blood and Gold in August 2001 (with a specially-commissioned new cover). To date, A Storm of Swords is the longest novel in the series. Its publication was preceded by a novella called Path of the Dragon, which collects some of the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel into a single book. It was first published on Augin the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following in November 2000. As noted in the main text, UK Paperback editions separate the book into Steel and Snow (ISBN 0006479901) and Blood and Gold (ISBN 0007119550).Ī Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by American author George R. And Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.973 (US Hardback), 976 (UK Hardback), 1216 (US Paperback) His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the Kingdom of the North, but his defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark's enemies the Lannisters. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall.
Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Martin's superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. Split into two books for the paperback, the third volume in George R.R.
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