A Clash of Kings: The bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF THRONES: Book 2 (A Song of Ice and Fire)

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Jon Snow, Ned's bastard son, is inspired by his uncle, Benjen Stark, to join the Night's Watch, but becomes disillusioned when he discovers that its primary function is as a penal colony. The principal story chronicles the power struggle for the Iron Throne among the great Houses of Westeros following the death of King Robert in A Game of Thrones. The series' structure of multiple POVs and interwoven storylines was inspired by Wild Cards, a multi-authored shared universe book series edited by Martin since 1985.

Winter is the time when things die, and cold and ice and darkness fill the world, so this is not going to be the happy feel-good that people may be hoping for. In retaliation for Tyrion's abduction, his father Lord Tywin Lannister sends soldiers to raid the Riverlands, Catelyn's home region. Jaime and Brienne are captured by mercenaries working for Roose Bolton, who is nominally an ally of Robb's but is secretly plotting to undermine him to become Warden of the North. Main article: Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire Although involving dragons and sorcery, A Song of Ice and Fire series de-emphasizes magic as compared to many other epic fantasy works (emblem of J. Martin attributed the delay mainly to his untangling "the Meereenese knot", which the interviewer understood as "making the chronology and characters mesh up as various threads converged on [Daenerys]".

He confirmed that some of the plot of the book might be revealed on the show Game of Thrones [63] but one of the showrunners, David Benioff, claimed that while certain key elements would be the same, the show would diverge from the book in many respects. He has also stated that non-viewpoint characters Lady Stoneheart, Quaithe, Euron Greyjoy and Rickon Stark will appear. Martin aims to "make my characters real and to make them human, characters who have good and bad, noble and selfish well-mixed in their natures". Upon its release in October 2005 in the UK [48] and November 2005 in the US, [18] A Feast for Crows went straight to the top of The New York Times bestseller list. In December 2011, Martin posted a chapter from The Winds of Winter from the viewpoint of Theon Greyjoy; [62] several other chapters have been made public since.

She described it as "an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal. Daenerys offers both men the chance to make amends by sneaking into Meereen to free the slaves and start an uprising.

Meereen soon falls and, in retaliation for the murdered child slaves, Daenerys has the city's rulers put to death. The 300 pages removed from the A Game of Thrones manuscript served as the opening of the second book, entitled A Clash of Kings.