在这个四季时序错乱，长时酷暑或又寒冬十年的世界，残酷、黑暗的一系列宫廷斗争，相互厮杀，不会停歇。远在南方的七大王国国王劳勃突然造访北方的临冬城，会见城主、也是同他从小一起长大的挚友——艾德，这不是简单的叙旧，而是想让他担任七大王国的首相。其实在终年冰封的北境，艾德与妻儿也过着与世无争的生活，这次到访无疑让艾德千思万绪，一切的秘密在一封密信中爆发。前首相琼恩?艾林的死因，矛头全指向了劳勃的皇后，**望族的瑟曦，为了支援劳勃，艾德投入了这一场宫廷的漩涡中。

战争才半露面，心灵的撞击就如此猛烈，美好才一开始，黑暗就铺天盖地袭来。愈是接近死亡，一切就愈真实，愈能与读者产生呼应。拿起这本书，就无法放下了。

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

From a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you've ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of this magnificent saga, the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere.

A GAME OF THRONES
A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK ONE

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing--his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.

Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thronestells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won't let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.