Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones (a Targaryen History)

 

　　火與血的家族，龍族的興起與衰亡。在《冰與火之歌》中最受劇迷喜愛的龍母，她的王國、龍族的歷史，首度完整呈現，滿足劇迷們無止盡的好奇。



　　在「權力遊戲」事件的數百年前，坦格利安——瓦雷利亞末日後唯一存活下來的龍族，來到了龍石島。火與血以鑄造鐵王座的龍王伊耿（Aegon）的傳奇開始，敘述坦格利安族數代以來爭奪王座的故事。

 

　　到底在第五部《與龍共舞》（Dance of the Dragons）發生了甚麼、龍族在背後扮演怎樣的角力與鬥爭？為什麼在末日之後造訪瓦雷利亞如此致命？龍母丹妮莉絲的三顆龍蛋，從何而來？一連串不曾在《冰與火之歌》中得到解答的疑惑都將在本作得到答案；書中八十張全新的黑白插圖更為傳奇的維斯特洛大地（Westeros）增添豐富的血肉與故事。



　　被比喻為喬治馬丁的《精靈寶鑽》（GRRMarillion）、有如吉朋《羅馬帝國興亡史》的壯闊篇幅，Fire And Blood 讓《冰與火之歌》的世界觀，更加完整與迷人。（文 / 博客來編譯）

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon

＂The thrill of Fire & Blood is the thrill of all Martin’s fantasy work: familiar myths debunked, the whole trope table flipped.＂--Entertainment Weekly

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 & 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 was it so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What were Maegor the Cruel’s worst crimes? What was it like in Westeros when dragons ruled the skies? 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 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 & Blood is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.

Praise for Fire & Blood

＂A masterpiece of popular historical fiction.＂ --The Sunday Times

＂The saga is a rich and dark one, full of both the title’s promised elements. . . . It’s hard not to thrill to the descriptions of dragons engaging in airborne combat, or the dilemma of whether defeated rulers should ’bend the knee, ’ ’take the black’ and join the Night’s Watch, or simply meet an inventive and horrible end.＂--The Guardian

George R. R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire--A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons--as well as Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven (with Lisa Tuttle), and Dreamsongs Volumes I and II. He is also the creator of The Lands of Ice and Fire, a collection of maps featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and The World of Ice & Fire, with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Doug Wheatley is a comic book artist, concept designer, and illustrator who has worked on such properties and characters as Star Wars, Aliens, Superman, The Incredible Hulk, and Conan the Barbarian, to name just a few. Wheatley was the artist on the comic book adaptation of the film Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and contributed illustrations to The World of Ice & Fire.