

Image: Game of Thrones/HBO A Dance with Greatness Where does it rank among the rest of the Song of Ice and Fire saga? Instead, let’s take a quick back at some of the high and low points of Dance on its tenth birthday.

The question of whether Martin is any closer to finishing the next book in his series, The Winds of Winter, has been so thoroughly debated that just mentioning it gives me a stress headache, so we’ll say for now that he’s seemed optimistic lately and move on. It’s been so long that HBO’s Game of Thronesbegan, gained a following, turned into a phenomenon, aired a hugely divisive series finale and is now preparing to birth a spinoff show. It’s hard to bring this up without stating the obvious: it’s been a really long time since Dance. After that, A Clash of Kings followed on NovemA Storm of Swords on August 8, 2000 A Feast for Crows on Octoand finally A Dance with Dragons on July 12, 2011, exactly 10 years ago today. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, came out way back on August 1, 1996. Let’s look back at this massive, ambitious, messy, wonderful novel.Ī Game of Thrones, the first book in George R.R. By Dan Selcke 1 year ago A Dance With Dragons was published exactly 10 years ago.
