Fire & Blood
The first volume of a definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros is set centuries before the events of "A Game of Thrones" and answers key questions about the dynasty's origins, conflicts and relationships with dragons.
Stats for nerds
1recommend
4mentions
4people
2020–2022years
25% recommend75% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- I finished the quadrilogy Terra Ignota, also known by its first book title, Too Like the Lightning. It is one of the most unique set of books I've read, taking place in the 2400s but referencing events 300 years in our past, so it is as if our current time is right in the middle of both ends. It is quite long and flowing in its writing, something that not everyone may like. It has a very high amount of allusion to other Western works, particularly ancient Greek works, so if you're not familiar with those, read them before reading these books.
I am also reading Fire and Blood, which is on the opposite spectrum, much terser but somehow still enjoyable as its blunt style makes imagining the scenarios that play out in the story much easier than the flowery prose of Terra Ignota.
- Fiction: 1. It (Stephen king) 2. The Stand (Stephen King) 3. Fire and Blood
Non Fiction: 1. It looks impossible until its done 2. The Laws of Human nature 3. 48 Laws of Power 4. Brain always wins.
- > They didn't pay him to write books in the future.
No, but HBO did, he (co?)wrote Fire and Blood to give them material for a new GoT style TV show; they probably paid him so much to cram its writing in between the mainline ASoIaF books. On top of the licenses for the once popular TV show.
- I had given up on the series since he started publishing prequels like Fire and Blood, but now, I am hopeful that he'll finish the book.
He had been busy with the TV series and other things. With the pandemic raging, I don't think he'll be super busy with Hollywood.
Also, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I am grateful that he did not complete his series. Hear me out first!
When I first read The Game of Thrones, it was an ebook. I immediately bought the paperback set, only to realise a few months later that the series is not complete. (yes, I never google because ages ago, I was reading a Dan Brown book, and I accidentally ruined it for me by reading out what happens in the end).
After finishing the last book, I was stunned. No, I have read LoTR, but ASOIAF was unlike anything I have ever read, including the Mahabharata (which, is much more complex and originally written as Sanskrit verses).
But, that gave me motivation to finally start writing novels. I am not a famous author just yet. I have been writing consistently for the last six years, and I have published only one short story on Kindle a few weeks ago.
I find that GRRM has encouraged a lot of writers to write. The first thing I did when I started to write was to read his advice for new authors and it was great. His #1 advice is 'stop writing in my universe or Star wars universe of JRR's universe. Creating characters and world building is a significant part of story telling and you will not be an author until you do so. otherwise you are just writing fan fiction'
That month, I wrote my first short story. Then my first short film script which won the silver script award in India Film Project 2007.
Since then, I have written four full length novels. I am currently working on my fifth novel.
And all this has been because GoT's next book isn't coming out and I was so frustrated about that, that I started writing my own novels. (I know it does not sound logic, but that's how I felt. Damn it, I'm writing my own novels!)
