The soil of Westeros is rich in story the way some countries are rich in uranium. Thus two of the great narrative arcs of the series are bending toward each other, and when they touch, expect sparks to fly.īut this being Martin, there are a lot more than two arcs in play. Daenerys has one of the better claims to the throne of Westeros, but she's been running wild in the barbarian lands to the East in the company of three increasingly feral dragons. Tyrion is headed toward Daenerys, which is big news, because she's been isolated from the rest of the players in the series until now. Peter Dinklage plays the quick-witted Tyrion - with obvious relish - on the series. One of A Dance with Dragons' central characters is the dwarf Tyrion, who is also featured in the HBO series, Game of Thrones.
Martin spent the last book pushing his pawns, but now his attention is back on the major characters: Jon Snow, the young, relatable bastard son of the late lord of the north Daenerys Targaryen, an exiled princess of Westeros and Tyrion, the brilliant, black-humored dwarf scion of the Lannister family, which was last seen precariously clinging to power. The books are set on the fictional continent of Westeros, a scrambled political chessboard with at least seven different sides to it. Now we can't even agree on what civilization is.Ī Song of Ice and Fire is expected to run to seven volumes, and Martin's new novel, A Dance with Dragons, is the fifth. Tolkien was a veteran of the Somme, and wrote during Word War II, when it really seemed like the fate of civilization was hanging in the balance. It's an epic for a more profane, more sardonic, more ambivalent age than the one Tolkien lived in. I think Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is the great epic of our era. Martin's novel, A Feast for Crows, in which I called him "the American Tolkien." That phrase has stuck to him, which is what I meant it to do. A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire
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