The release date for the English version of 'Fire & Blood' by
George R.R. Martin is Jul 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This brilliant masterpiece, which served as the inspiration for the HBO Original series House of the Dragon, brings the exciting history of the Targaryens to life.
The only line of dragonlords to escape the Doom of Valyria, the House Targaryen, settled on Dragonstone centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones. Aegon the Conqueror, the man who built the Iron Throne, is the protagonist of Fire & Blood's story, which follows the generations of Targaryens who battled for control of that venerable seat up to the civil war that almost brought their dynasty to an end.
What really took place during the Dragon Dance? Why was visiting Valyria after the Doom so deadly? Which were Maegor the Cruel's most heinous offenses? When dragons controlled the sky, what was life like in Westeros? Presented by an esteemed maester of the Citadel, these are only a few of the inquiries addressed in this indispensable chronicle. Small snippets of this past have been shown to readers in books like The World of Ice & Fire, but today, for the first time, the whole picture of Targaryen history is presented.
Fire & Blood is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, with all the grandeur and scope of Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It will open readers' eyes to a whole new understanding of the dynamic, frequently bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.