A Song of Ice and Fire #3: A Storm of Swords (HBO Tie-in)
A Song of Ice and Fire #3: A Storm of Swords (HBO Tie-in)
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Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms.
His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons left in the world.
And as opposing forces maneuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable.
As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords.
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龍后丹妮莉絲帶領所剩無幾的族人，乘船航向維斯特洛大陸；她用盡一切努力招兵買馬，並苦苦等待小龍茁壯，以助她復國大業。布蘭的狼夢漸趨頻繁，在夢裡，他化身為狼、自由奔跑。然而夢醒之後，他又是那名落難的王子、被追捕的臨冬城遺孤。
南至君臨，在被蘭尼斯特雄獅佔據的皇城之中，喬佛里將迎娶提利爾家的瑪格麗，珊莎雖逃離暴君的魔爪，卻被許配給在黑水灣之戰中面目全非的小惡魔提利昂。遠在北境，於奔流城與攣河城聯姻前夕，羅柏將一名陌生女子帶到凱特琳面前，宣稱她是自己的真命天女。
凱特琳因兒子的舉動感到惶惶不安、終日難眠。原本將締結姻緣的兩大家族，都因此蒙上了陰影。瓊恩雖然遭擄，但統治境外的王者卻非他所想像殘暴不仁；艾莉亞成功逃離赫倫堡，身後仍有冷血無情的追兵跟隨，但她一路向北，依舊抱持著終有一日回歸故園的想望……
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A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK THREE
★ 星雲獎、雨果獎、世界奇幻文學獎、軌跡獎得獎作家！
★ 《魔戒》的托爾金之後，最能代表奇幻文學的名字：喬治．馬汀，入選二○一一年《時代雜誌》百大影響人物。
★ 全美總銷量6,000,000冊、全球總銷量16,000,000冊（還在繼續爆炸性成長）。
★ 全系列登上紐約時報平裝本小說排行榜：《權力遊戲》第一名、《烽火危城》第四名、《刀風劍雨》第六名、《群鴉盛宴》第八名。英國亞馬遜書店總榜前十名；西班牙書店暢銷排行榜前十名。
★ 網路票選史上最佳百大奇幻小說，「冰與火」名列第四，前三名是托爾金（《魔戒》和《哈比人歷險記》）和 J. K. 羅琳的作品。
當代歐美文壇最重要的奇幻小說大師──喬治‧馬汀（George R. R. Martin） 時代雜誌封喬治馬汀是「美國托爾金」：「當今的奇幻史詩書寫者，喬治．馬汀毫無疑問是箇中翹楚。事實上，我們現在大可稱他是『美國的托爾金』。」
喬治．馬汀，當代重量級奇幻小說大師，累積三十年寫作編劇經驗的顛峰代表作《冰與火之歌》，以莊嚴壯闊的架構，歷史小說般的寫實筆觸，恢弘的布局，嶄新的手法和深具創意的背景，模糊難辨的善惡分野，顛覆了奇幻小說的傳統。
本系列震撼了歐美文壇，獲得壓倒性的好評，更連續被專業雜誌評選為年度最佳奇幻小說。
冰與火之歌第一部：權力遊戲 A GAME OF THRONES
冰與火之歌第二部：烽火危城 A CLASH OF KINGS
冰與火之歌第三部：劍刃風暴 A STORM OF SWORDS
冰與火之歌第四部：群鴉盛宴 A FEAST OF CROWS
冰與火之歌第五部：與龍共舞 A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy.
Martin—dubbed the “American Tolkien” by Time magazine—has created a world that is as rich and vital as any piece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalry and filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom.
It is this very vitality that has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries “Game of Thrones.”
