Martin, George R. R.:

Yes, we know, A Song of Ice and Fire is amazing, and yes, ‘A Game of Thrones’ revolutionised fantasy as we know it - you can kill off main characters left, right and centre and still get us to want more!. But that’s forgetting that prior to the series Martin was a SF great - he had three Hugo Awards before 'Game of Thrones’ was written. Take this little treasure here - Fevre Dream (this is the Subterranean Press signed/limited edition). It is set on the antebellum Mississippi River beginning in 1857 and can be described as "Bram Stoker meets Mark Twain”.

'When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove.’

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A Song of Ice and Fire:

Subterranean Press - Signed/Limited Editions

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, 'Fire and Blood' is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.

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 and 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.

Folio Society - Limited Editions

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Voyager - Editions

Voyager - First Edition Voyager - First Edition Voyager - First Edition - Later Print

Voyager - Signed/Limited Voyager - First Edition Voyager - First Edition

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever.

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 and 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 did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. 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.

Voyager - First Edition Signed