Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing.

The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne.

At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.

Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.

Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear.

Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won’t let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.

★ 連續多年！蟬聯亞馬遜網路書店年度最佳奇幻小說！
★ 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.”