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Article Source: Ash SilverlockAsh Silverlock is a fantasy author himself, and his analysis of George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire Series" (that's Game of Thrones" to HBO viewers) is almost spot on.
He is too hard on A Dance with Dragons. It is not perfect and it does not scale the heights of A Storm of Swords. But it's a darned sight better than A Feast for Crows.
What set Martin’s saga apart from many of the identikit fantasy novels which had been appearing until the mid-1990s was its greater use of realistic elements. While many fantasy authors appeared to be inspired by mythology (when they weren’t just copying Tolkien), A Song of Ice and Fire was more clearly influenced by medieval and early modern history, most notably Jacobitism and the Wars of the Roses. Martin wrote frankly of sex and violence, gleefully threaded his novels with strong language and took even greater pleasure in routinely subverting and kicking over audience expectations.
#1 - Mon Feb 6, 2012 3:01 PM ESTA veteran author who had for years before he turned his hand to A Song of Ice and Fire written for stage and screen, Martin excels at dialogue and juggling multiple plots and characters
Yes! It's the wit of the dialogue, particularly when the protagonists are trying to pull one over on each other in a subtle or ingenious way.
Puts me in mind of Frank Herbert although in a slightly different way.
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