Fire & Blood 小说

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.

With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.

《冰与火之歌》系列小说开篇的三百年前，

坦格利安家族作为唯一幸存于瓦雷利亚“末日浩劫”的龙王家族，

定居龙石岛，并发动征服战争，成功统一了维斯特洛大陆。

全书以铁王座缔造者、传奇的“征服者”伊耿为开端，

讲述了坦格利安王朝历代圣君与昏君不同时期的精彩典故，

及永恒不变的权力斗争。

读者曾在《冰与火之歌》中瞥见这些故事的一鳞半爪，现在，它们的全貌首次得以展现。

本书由乔治·R.R.马丁托名学城学士“葛尔丹”撰写，

配以著名幻想艺术家道格•惠特利创作的八十余幅精美插图，

一经出版便长时间占据纽约时报畅销书榜前列，

亦将成为HBO大型电视剧集《龙王家族》的原著蓝本。