a song of ice and fire book 6 release date

Most of the characters are human but as the series progresses other races are introduced, such as the cold and menacing Others from the far North and fire-breathing dragons from the East, both races thought to be extinct. The story of A Song of Ice and Fire takes place in a fictional world, primarily upon a continent called Westeros but also on a large landmass to the east, known as Essos. There have been two computer games based on the series, with a third planned. The series has been adapted as a board games, a tabletop wargame, a collectible card game and as two tabletop roleplaying games. The series ran for eight seasons, concluding in 2019. By the end of the show's fourth season, it had become HBO's most successful-ever dramatic series and had won multiple Emmy Awards. The series won instant critical and popular acclaim. In 2011, the American cable television company HBO began airing a drama series based on the books, under the title Game of Thrones.

The third through fifth volumes in the series reached the New York Times bestseller list, with the fourth and fifth volumes topping the list in the week of their release. There are also three novellas which act as prequels to the novels, with several more planned, and three other novellas consisting of excepts from the main novels.Ī Song of Ice and Fire has sold over 58 million copies worldwide and is now published in more than twenty languages. Originally envisaged as a trilogy, there are now five published novels in the series with two more planned. He began writing the series in 1991 and the first volume was published in 1996. The US covers of the first five novels in the seriesĪ Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American novelist and screenwriter George R.R.

A song of ice and fire book 6 release date