TY - BOOK AU - Martin,George R.R. TI - A GAME OF THRONES: A Song of Ice and Fire SN - 9780006479888 U1 - 823.92 22 PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - HARPER Voyager, An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - English fiction KW - Imaginary wars and battles KW - Fiction KW - Fantasy fiction N2 - The first volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. GAME OF THRONES is now a major TV series from HBO, starring Sean Bean. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must ...and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He claims the Iron Throne ER -