The World of Ice and Fire ― The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (英國版)

If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE.

George R.R. Martin, in collaboration with Elio M. García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, including over 170 full-colour illustrations and maps, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros.

This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. Martin’s dazzlingly conceived universe; THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords.

‘Of those who work in the grand epic fantasy tradition, George R.R. Martin is by far the best’
Time Magazine

‘Colossal, staggering… Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world … one of the greats of fantasy literature’
SFX

‘The sheer-mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads … Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias’
Guardian —

ANCIENT HISTORY
The Dawn Age
The Coming of the First Men
The Age of Heros
The Long Night
The Rise of Valyria
Valyria's Children
The Arrival of the Andals
Ten Thousand Ships
The Doom of Valyria

THE REIGN OF THE Dragons
The Conquest

THE TRAGARYEN KINGS
Aegon I
Aenys I
Maegor I
Jaehaerys I
Viserys I
Ageon II
Daeron II
Aerys I
Maekar I
Aegon V
Jaehaerys II
Aerys II

THE FALL IF THE DRAGONS
The Year of the False Spring
Robert's Rebellion
The End

THE GLORIOUS REIGN

THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
The North
The Kings of Winter
The Mountain Clans
The Stoneborn of Skagos
The Crannogmen of the Neck
The Lords of Winterfall
Winterfall
The Wall and Beyond
The Night's Watch
The Wildings
The Riverlands
House Tully
Riverrun
The Vale
House Arryn
The Eyrie
The Iron Islands
Driftwood Crowns
The Iron Kings
The Black Bllod
The Greyjoys of Pyke
The Red Kraken
The Old Way and the New
Pyke
The Westerlands
House Lannister Under the Dragons
Casterly Rock
The Reach
Garth Greenhand
The Gardener Kings
Andals in the Reach
Oldtown
House Tyrell
Highgarden
The Stormlands
The Coming of the First Man
House Durrandon
Andals in the Stormlands
House Baratheon
The Men of the Stormlands
Storm's End
Dorne
Tje Breaking
Kingdoms of the First Men
The Andals Arrive
The Coming of the Rhoynar
Queer Customs of the South
Dorne Against the Dragons
Sunspear

BEYOND THE SUNSET KINGDOM
Other Lands
The Free Cities
Lorath
Norvos
Qohor
The Quarrelsome Daughters: Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh
Pentos
Volantis
Braavos
Beyond the Free Cities
The Summer Isles
Naath
The Basilisk Isles
Sothoryos
The Grasslands
The Shivering Sea
Ib
East of Ib
The Bones and Beyond
Yi Ti
The Plains of the Jogos Nhai
Leng
Aaahai-by-the Shadow

Afterword

Appendix: Targaryen Lineage

Appendix: Starl Lineage

Appendix: Reign of the Kings

Art Credits