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Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A Clash of Kings A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leadersLord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheonwho hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

Bestselling writer Daniel Abraham and acclaimed illustrator Tommy Patterson bring their stunning graphic-novel adaptation of George R.R. Martin's classic A GAME OF THRONES to a stunning finish that merits a place on the bookshelf of every fantasy fan alongside the majestic original. The death of King Robert Baratheon and the imprisonment of his Hand, Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell, has set the great houses of Westeros at one another's throats. In Winterfell, Eddard's eldest son and heir, Robb Stark, has gathered an army and is pushing south, determined to free his father. Along the way, he pledges to marry the daughter of Lord Walder Frey in exchange for a military advantage that allows him to capture Jaime Lannister-a powerful bargaining chip to ensure Lord Eddard's safe release. But it is one thing to capture the Kingslayer and quite another to hold him. Meanwhile, in King's Landing, young King Joffrey has other ideas than an exchange of prisoners. Ignoring the advice of his mother, Queen Cersei, he throws oil on the flames of conflict and ignites a conflagration that seems likely to consume not only the Starks but all of Westeros-unless Tyrion Lannister, the Imp, can bring the mad boy-king to heel. Beyond the Wall, greater dangers are brewing, as a winter as brutal as any in history approaches, bringing with it unnatural creatures out of legend. There, Eddard's bastard, Jon Snow, must decide once and for all where his loyalties lie. And across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen will learn the true measure of grief-and emerge from its fiery depths transformed, hardened, and ready to claim what is hers by right: the Iron Throne.

O primeiro volume de «As Crónicas de Gelo e Fogo», a melhor série de fantasia da actualidade! A única série de fantasia a atingir o 1º lugar do top de bestsellers do New York Times e do The Wall Stre

Una visita ilustrada a los Siete Reinos y al mundo de Juego de tronos. El mundo de hielo y fuego es un trabajo de documentación titánico que abarca desde la Era del Amanecer hasta la Edad de los Héroes; desde la llegada de los primeros hombres hasta el desembarco de Aegon el Conquistador, la Danza de los Dragones y la rebelión del rey Robert. Un verdadero tratado elaborado a partir de todas las fuentes disponibles: libros y pergaminos de la biblioteca de la Ciudadela, canciones y tradiciones populares, textos sagrados de la Fe y el conocimiento arcano de brujos y magos. Desde que George R. R. Martin empezó a publicar Canción de hielo y fuego, huestes de lectores apasionados por la saga se han volcado en recopilar todos los datos disponibles en las novelas... y fuera de ellas. Elio M. García, Jr., y Linda Antonsson, con la colaboración del propio Martin, han venido organizando toda esa información en la web Westeros.org, que se ha convertido en la fuente de referencia esencial de todo lo relacionado con la genial creación del autor. El mundo de hielo y fuego recoge ese trabajo en un compendio exhaustivo de la historia de Poniente y de las tierras de más allá del mar Angosto.

Las andanzas de un caballero de PonienteLos tres primeros relatos de Dunk y EggMuchas son las historias que se cuentan sobre Aegon V el Improbable y ser Duncan el Alto, su leal comandante de la Guardia Real. Pero la magia y la epica de la leyenda esconden la verdadera naturaleza de los heroes: la determinacion de un huerfano del Lecho de Pulgas que llego a caballero, el arrojo de un principe que cambio la corte por los caminos y una amistad inquebrantable capaz de vencer intrigas, traiciones... y revueltas.Durante los reinados de Daeron II y Aerys I, cuando las heridas de la rebelion de los Fuegoscuro todavia estaban abiertas, tienen lugar las primeras aventuras de un caballero fornido y bonachon y de su escudero, un infante real, fiel y de fuerte temperamento. A medio camino entre la fantasia heroica y la novela de caballerias, El caballero de los Siete Reinos narra las peripecias de dos heroes bondadosos en una tierra despiadada.En la tradicion epicofantastica, Martin es el mejor con diferencia.Time MagazineEl encuentro de dos heroes improbables que se ganaron el corazon de su pueblo.Dunk crecio huerfano en los callejones del Lecho de Pulgas y salio adelante gracias a su corpulencia. Vivio en la calle hasta que ser Arlan del Arbol de la Moneda lo tomo a su servicio como escudero. Con el recorrio los Siete Reinos y, a pesar de su corto intelecto, aprendio la esencia, que no las muchas artes, de la caballeria. Justo antes de morir, el viejo ser Arlan lo arma caballero, con la luna y las estrellas como unicos testigos. De modo que, con dos caballos y una espada por toda posesion, Dunk el Tocho, ahora ya ser Duncan, fia a su fuerza ganar alguna justa y embolsarse unas monedas, y sueña con llegar a ser un gran caballero. Pero hete aqui que un dia tropieza en el camino con un niño insolente a quien acabara aceptando como escudero... Y asi comienza la leyenda.Con tono ligero y un desarrollo ejemplar, El caballero de los Siete Reinos retoma algunos de los temas centrales de Cancion de hielo y fuego, como la lealtad, la justicia y la reflexion sobre el poder, pero desde la perspectiva cotidiana de la gente comun y de su incidencia en escenarios desprovistos de fasto y oropel. El autor crea dos de sus personajes mas entrañables y nos presenta una epoca mitica y terrible, cuyos conflictos dejaran impronta en la historia de los Siete Reinos y acarrearan consecuencias en los hechos narrados a partir de Juego de tronos.Una puerta abierta a Poniente y un delicioso recordatorio de por que nos cautiva Martin.

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Carson of Venus "to classic short stories such as Ray""Bradbury's "The Long Rain" to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis's "Perelandra, " the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth's next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century's space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life. But don't despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction's best writers--edited by #1 "New York Times "bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois--turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Join our cast of award-winning contributors--including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more--as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY Eleanor Arnason - Elizabeth Bear - David Brin - Tobias S. Buckell - Michael Cassutt - Joe Haldeman - Matthew Hughes - Gwyneth Jones - Joe R. Lansdale - Stephen Leigh - Paul McAuley - Ian McDonald - Garth Nix - Mike Resnick - Allen M. Steele - Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois

Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent. Assassins stalk the halls of the convention and one of the candidates plans to use his secret Wild Card power for evil.Travel on a journey of intrigue and adventure in this collaborative novel edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and written by five of science fiction's most imaginative talents: Stephen Leigh, Victor Milan, Walton Simons, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and Walter Jon Williams."Delicious. Everything I hoped for. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project." ―Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible on Inside Straight

Chevalier sans terre et sans nom, Dunk a choisi la voie de l'errance. Lui et son écuyer, un certain Aegon Targaryen, qui cache son illustre ascendance sous le sobriquet de l'Oeuf, louent leur

En 1946, un virus extraterrestre a frappé le monde et décimé 90 % de la population. Certains des survivants ont cependant acquis des pouvoirs surnaturels. Le XXe siècle s'en retrouve totalement m

After the concluding events of Lowball, Officer Francis Black of Fort Freak, vigilante joker Marcus The Infamous Black Tongue Morgan, and ace thief Mollie Tesseract Steunenberg get stuck in Talas, Kazahkstan. There, the coldblooded Baba Yaga forces jokers into an illegal fighting ring, but her hidden agenda is much darker: her fighters deaths serve to placate a vicious monster from another dimension. When the last line of defense against this world weakens, all hell breaks loose, literally.The Committee in New York sends a team of aces to investigate. One by one, each falls victim to evil forcesincluding the dark impulses within themselves. Only the perseverance of the most unlikely of heroes has a chance of saving the world before utter chaos erupts on Earth.

George R.R. Martin's superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues with the third in the series A Storm of Swords. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Unabridged and split into two parts. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall. The men of the Night's Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings twenty-thousand strong - hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness - poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. But Robb's defences are ranged against attack from the South, the land of House Stark's enemies the Lannisters. His sisters are trapped there, dead or likely yet to die, at the whim of the Lannister boy-king Joffrey or his depraved mother Cersei, regent of the Iron Throne. Cersei's ambition is unfettered while the dwarf Tyrion Lannister fights for his life, a victim of treachery. And on the other side of the ocean, the last of the Targaryens rears the dragons she hatched from her husband's funeral pyre. Daenerys Stormborn will return to the land of her birth to avenge the murder of her father, the last Dragon King on the Iron Throne.

The fifth volume in the greatest epic work of the modern age, George R R Martin's SONG OF FIRE AND ICE, this recording is unabridged and split into 2 parts. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, beset by enemies. Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys and her dragons. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King's Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated father, Lord Tywin. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has enemies both in the Watch and beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies are massing for an assault. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all...

he fourth instalment of George R R Martin's classic A Song of Ice and Fire, continuing the most ambitious and imaginative epic fantasy since The Lord of the Rings. Now a major Sky Atlantic TV series from HBO, featuring a stellar cast. A Feast for Crows brings to life dark magic, intrigue and terrible bloodshed as the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as any in its violent past. The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne, with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding, so called for the massacre of the guests, their screams unheard above the music of the feast. Euron Crow's Eye is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, sworn to deliver the whole of Westeros to the ironborn. No less to be feared are their enemies. The Starks of Winterfell and the Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead. And the last of the Targaryens, Daenerys Stormborn, will bring fire and blood to King's Landing when her young dragons reach their terrifying maturity. The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula, now a smoking, demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea. Against a backdrop of alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel ...and the coldest hearts.

En aquest segon llibre de "Can## de gel i foc", George R.R. Martin continua la que sembla destinada a ser la millor s#rie de fantasia que s'ha escrit mai. El preu de la gl#ria. Mentre els pretendents al Tron de Ferro dels Set Regnes es preparen per fer valer els seus drets, el caos regna des de l'antiga ciutadella de Rocadrac fins a les costes imponents d'Hiv#rnia. Una profecia de desastre esquin#a el cel -un cometa del color de la sang i la flama- alhora que sis faccions combaten pel control d'una terra dividida. Amb un rerefons d'incest i fratricidi, alqu#mia i assassinat, el preu de la gl#ria es mesura amb sang. Ressenya:"Una narraci# #pica... amb un moment decisiu farcit d'acci#, que ofereix un banquet als amants de la fantasia."Publishers Weekly

Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. Here are twenty-two brand-new adventures set in the world of Jack Vance's greatest novel. A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A million cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls, dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain to the long history of our world. At the last, science and magic are one, and there is evil on Earth, distilled by time ! Earth is dying. Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth, and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time, Jack has agreed to open this intriguing and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists, to play in as their very own. The list of twenty-two contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by writing for this anthology includes Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, and George R.R. Martin himself.

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin ("The American Tolkien" --Time magazine) along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since thenand of the heroes among the one percent.Now a new generation of heroes has taken its place on the world stage, its members crucial players in international events. At the United Nations, veteran ace John Fortune has assembled a team of young aces known as the Committee, to assist at trouble spots around the worldincluding a genocidal war in the Niger Delta, an invasion of zombies in hurricane ravaged New Orleans, and a freak nuclear explosion in a small Texas town.

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one web design canning. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land web design canning. But Adara was not afraid web design canning. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember web design canning.Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara's home. And only a winter child-and the ice dragon who loved her-could save her world from utter destruction. The Ice Dragon marks the highly anticipated children's book debut of George R.R. Martin, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire and is set in the same world. Illustrated with lush, exquisitely detailed pencil drawings by acclaimed artist Yvonne Gilbert, The Ice Dragon is an unforgettable tale of courage, love, and sacrifice by one of the most honored fantasists of all time.

Le royaume des sept couronnes est sur le point de connaître son plus terrible hiver : par-delà le mur qui garde sa frontière nord, une armée de ténèbres se lève, menaçant de tout détruire sur son passage. Mais il en faut plus pour refroidir les ardeurs des rois, des reines, des chevaliers et des renégats qui se disputent le trône de fer, tous les coups sont permis, et seuls les plus forts, ou les plus retors s'en sortiront indemnes...