Game Of Thrones author George R.R. Martin tells a story about how he didn’t plan on putting any actual dragons in the books when he started writing the first one. Then he had a conversation with fellow writer Phyllis Eisenstein, who famously told him, “George, it’s fantasy. You’ve got to put in the dragons.” Now he…...
- 8/17/2022
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
On a cold night in January, George R.R. Martin sits inside the Jean Cocteau Cinema, a revival theater that he owns in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has lived since 1979. The Cinema had been showing the first three seasons of HBO's megahit series Game of Thrones, which is based on Martin's still-in-the-works saga A Song of Ice and Fire. After viewing the ninth episode, "Baelor," in which the story's apparent hero, Ned Stark, is unexpectedly beheaded, with the screen falling to black, Martin sits quietly for several moments,...
- 6/13/2014
- Rollingstone.com
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