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u/ISw3arItWasntM3 · 8 pointsr/asoiaf

Joe Abercrombie. His style and the philosophy of his writing are similar to Martin. There are no good guys and bad guys in the sense that everybody has their own motives and act on them yet there are still clear protagonists and antagonists. They books focus on a smaller cast of characters and the world is less enormous but the characters are very well realized and the entire series is about 1 and a half times the size of a aSoIaF book. What really made it great for me is that Abercrombie is great at writing intrigue as well as humor that doesn't compromise the narrative.

Here is the link to the The Blade Itself, first book in Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy, and for a bonus here's an video of Joe Abercrombie interviewing GRRM about the Game of Thrones TV series.

If you want a longer review here's a pretty good one from Amazon.

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>I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. I read the blurb from the back and nearly turned away after reading only half of the summary. But something made me open it up and try the first few pages--and I was hooked. It starts with an action scene--like most fantasy novels--and it is described so well. It is realistic without splattering gore in your face. I can't think of any other author who treads that line so well as Joe Abercrombie does in The Blade Itself.
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>I didn't find this a funny book, overall. It's not a comedy at all. But there are several moments where I did laugh out loud as I read some clever description or a reaction of one of the characters. In fact I think I found more to smile at in this book than most other novels that are specifically tagged as being funny or humourous. The humour here isn't forced. I didn't feel like the author was trying to be funny. It was more like the humour you might find in casual conversation with a friend.
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>This book moves along at a good pace. It is one of those books where you want to keep reading to find out what happens, but, unlike many other page-turners, things actually happen in this one! I hate books that promise action or resolution just over the next page, just another page, one more page, and before you know it you've read half the book and still nothing's happened. This is definitely not a one-trick pony of a book. Each character is well developed and the plots intertwine naturally.
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>What this book doesn't contain are tired old writing techniques. Well, it's not perfect, but it's as close as I've come across in 15 years. Anyway, there are no stereotypical cliched fantasy characters. The author doesn't end each chapter on a contrived cliff-hanger and then talk about another character's life for ten chapters before returning to the cliff-hanger. He doesn't especially dwell on the gruesome details of battle, but he writes it as realistically as you'd want. Perhaps not super-realistic--this is a fantasy, after all--but it's not nearly as predictable as many.
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>Something else I noticed about the writing style is that Joe will change his writing a little to suit each character. So each time he changes the perspective to a new character, the way he describes the scenes changes, too. It's like he's letting us look through each of their eyes, rather than just giving us a homogenous narration throughout. They're not jarring transitions by any means, though. For me they really added to the story and made it all the more absorbing.
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>This is by far the most absorbing novel I have read for many years. And this is the most glowing review I have given any book on Amazon!

u/LastDragoon · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

>It's a risk either way.

You're saying that the risk that someone is lying or woefully mistaken is acceptable. That if one is not provided a promised good or service their only response should be to self-flagellate for believing it would come.

It's okay to mislead the audience. Gotcha.

>My point, however, is that if someone considers it a risk to their reading experience that the series may not be completed, that is a risk they accept when they start reading.

There are risks and there are risks. You specifically mentioned the author dying unexpectedly. That is an acceptable risk. The author losing interest is not an acceptable risk. Him abandoning the project tomorrow after continuously promising its completion would make him an asshole.

>People are blaming GRRM for not getting the experience they expected or were hoping for

THAT HE PROMISED AS LATE AS 3 WEEKS AGO.


>when no such thing was guaranteed

Not guaranteed, just promised over and over and over and over...

>certainly not included in the price they paid

"Don’t miss the thrilling sneak peek of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Six, The Winds of Winter"

>They did not pay for a complete series. They paid for individual books, priced like individual books.

Most on the understanding that the author had pledged to complete the series.

>transfering the risk regarding their reading experience to the author.

This is the reverse of what actually happened. George has constantly, consistently repeated his promise of a) the books, b) a series of [x] length, and c) a conclusion to the series "no matter what". He created the expectation, not the audience.

>Yet, that is how people are acting when they're saying "I bought the book expecting a whole series".

That is what was explicitly promised to most readers during their purchase. And the promise existed for the remainder regardless of their knowledge.

>Is there anything to suggest GRRM does not intend to finish ASOIAF?

His continual announcements of working on other projects in light of his own admittance that working on other projects stymies his work on ASOIAF.

>Again, on the premise that you would only read completed series

Rejected. That's your premise. Not mine, not /u/lichtbogen's. I already clarified this in my first comment and now you're bringing it back.

>No, he's enticing you to buy it
>>And you can still refuse.

And lying is still wrong. And failing to deliver on a promise is still failure to deliver on a promise.

>Simplifying things, if the expected value - given some means of evaluating it - is positive, then the risk is acceptable. If the expected value is negative, then the risk is unacceptable. That is, in the economical sense.

Then we're not talking about the same thing and your original comment was equivocation or, at best, vague. Clearly this isn't Keynes. An acceptable risk is one external to GRRM's will. An unacceptable one is reliant on GRRM's will.

>When you say that GRRM getting bored is an unacceptable risk (or previously, slowing to snails pace or giving up), it does not seem like you're making an economic judgement. Rather, it seems you're talking morally. You object on an ethical basis to GRRM not putting effort in to complete the book. Is that a fair interpretation?

There's no point in answering this question as you already know the answer from my first comment, judging by the way you continue on.


>In which case, by what moral right do you have to dictate what GRRM should work on?

That of a person to hold another to their given word.

>I never said people should not try to keep their promises. I think they should.

And what should happen to those who willfully fail to do so? Because I highly doubt you'd support any social punishment for it, nor even people crying "bullshit" at every subsequent GRRM promise.

>But I also think people on the internet have no right (or privilege) to demand that someone they don't know, likely will never meet, nor have any other direct dealings with, should write the book they please, when they please.

Not any book. Just the ones they promise to write. And no one is picketing GRRM's house or demanding that he be held in contempt of court. Just maybe, possibly asking if we could collectively consider him what he is: someone who has continuously failed to deliver on a promise that he keeps reiterating.

>Regardless of whether or not that someone has promised to work on that book... which, it appears, he actually is doing, albeit not as fast as we or indeed he himself had hoped.

Not "regardless". This is the issue. I have compared this situation to that of Half-Life 3. Half-Life 3 was never explicitly promised. The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring are explicitly promised. He is not working on them as fast as is warranted.

>Firstly, none of us, individually, made ASOIAF anything.

Quite. That's why I said "we", not "I" or "you". This is why marketing exists. To determine the desires of large groups of people. The largest group of GRRM readers were reading ASOIAF, which is why Wildcards and stand-alone novels stopped being written. Unfortunately, he just pivoted towards more lucrative ASOIAF material.

>Secondly, even if we did collectively make ASOIAF hugely successful, why would that give us any privilege?

See above. It's his bread and butter.

>You, and others, are demanding GRRM do very specific work.

That he promised to do.

>I, on the other hand, am not demanding GRRM do very specific work. I hope he will. I hope he will live up to his promise, for our sake and his own.

A promise means nothing if the only consequence for breaking it is that the people you made it to flog themselves for believing you.

>But I do not fool myself into thinking I am entitled to anything. I have no bought a guarantee. I have not received a binding, precise promise which has been broken.

GRRM incurred a social debt when he repeatedly traded on the promise of TWOW and ADOS. That you personally are unwilling to ever call it due does not eliminate it for everyone else.

>I am merely impatient for another instalment in a series I love; this gives me no privilege, but some discomfort.

Hmm. Due you, perhaps, feel entitled to that feeling of discomfort based on the promises that have been made yet unfulfilled? Might you, perhaps, voice that discomfort - say, on an internet forum?

>Accepting the premise of that statement a moment, can you show me were he reneged on that promise, exactly?

The promise is that he's hard at work on TWOW. The breaking of it is him working on other projects and admitting that these other projects distract him from TWOW.

>The book series has gained him fame and fortune because he is really fucking good at writing.

The social debt refers to those works created after ADWD, including the TV show. Those are what brought him fame and fortune. And he continues to trade on the idea of a finished series to get attention for his other projects. It's why he consistently talks about "working hard" on TWOW and ADOS in every interview about the prequel shows.

>And he will remain really good whether he completes it or not.

Remains to be seen. I'm not a prophet and neither are you. I do know that The Silmarillion is still primarily referred to as "the incomplete encyclopedia of Middle Earth".

>No, actually, I'm not even sure if that's true. Arguably, a lot of his fame and fortune is down to the stuff he had already written being so good it became a sensational TV-series.

Surely nobody invested their eyeballs in the TV series (or continued to do so after it passed the book material) under the distinct impression that further books would come out. "I just want to see how this compares to what George will eventually write" definitely wasn't a major sentiment going into seasons 7 and 8 around here.

>Not once have I heard someone say "yeah, I started reading ASOIAF/watching GOT because GRRM promised to complete the series".

Meaningless. Assuming that's true, the fact that you've never heard an idea only means that you have never heard it. It has negligible effect on the prevalence of the idea. We both know that I could find a non-zero number of people who have expressed it. In fact, that was the very sentiment you attributed to /u/lichtbogen above, so I know you believe some people hold to it.

>Except that people like you keep implying it in threads like this.

No, that was you erroneously.

>As if you started reading the first book because he promised he would finish the damn thing, rather than the first book - on its own - being a really enjoyable read.

If you believe that a significant number of people wouldn't have waved this series off knowing what they'd know now about its publication schedule you're crazy. Plenty of people ask things like "I watched the show, is it worth it to start reading these books even though they aren't finished?" on this very forum. The honest answer is "only if you're okay with a series that won't be finished".

>As if you started reading the first book because he promised he would finish the damn thing

Implicitly everyone did. GRRM has consistently promised a continuation, a book count, and an ending.

>See, this is the entitlement that people need to get over. This absurd idea that GRRM owes them anything.

Not anything. Just what he keeps promising. I'm picturing you next George and every time he says "Winds is coming!" you say "not that you should expect it to based on that statement".

>You're on here, wasting your time writing like I am, so presumably it was all worth it and then some.

More likely we're all idiots.

>But here's the final question: Why is it that I can love the books so much and accept that GRRM will do what he will, when he will, whereas you feel entitled to demand he do what you want, when you want?

Ingrained sycophancy vs. objective skepticism?

u/BryndenBFish · 17 pointsr/asoiaf

Hello! Hello! Thank you for re-posting. It's always fun when someone finished ADWD. That moment of relief... that feeling that there's nothing else out there... but THERE TOTALLY IS!

Novellas, Novellettes, a Re-Read and TWOW Sample Chapters


You finished the 5 ASOIAF books. Great! But there's more ASOIAF-universe material out there. Have you read Dunk & Egg, The Princess and the Queen or the Rogue Prince? And do you know about The World of Ice and Fire: GRRM's History of Planetos? Furthermore, it's a universally accepted fact that your re-read will be much, much better than your first read. Here's some links!

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

Digital goods have none of the manufacturing costs and none of the scarcity of physical goods. They don't have to pay workers at a Barnes and Noble, or a Warehouse, or pay rent for either. There are no shipping and distribution costs. They have no where near a fraction of the costs necessary to produce a physical version of the same. Supply is as close to infinite as you are going to get. The more you sell, the higher your profit margin goes. The costs of editing, marketing, etc are all completed once the book is available. Costs from then on are solely on a per unit basis (extremely low to near nothing), and the more units you sell, the less percent of the unit revenue goes to initial costs, leading to higher profit margins.

I think you miss the point that Amazon does not set the prices on these digital books. The publishers do. And publishers don't want to go extremely digital.

Look at the page for ADwD on Amazon. Below the price.

>Sold by: Random House Digital, Inc.
> This price was set by the publisher

Amazon was, at one point, pricing the digital versions far, far lower. Many major books were 9.99, 7.99, even less.

Unfortunately, the publishers disliked this.

>In April of 2010, 5 of the major publishers (Penguin/Putnam being one of them) instituted what is now called Agency Pricing. Agency pricing has been instituted in US, UK, and Australia (even though some argue it is against the law in Austrialia) Under agency pricing, the publisher controls the price and the retailer is not allowed to discount.

>Under the traditional form of selling, the publisher sold the digital book to the retailer (or store) like Amazon or Barnes and Noble at a discount, often 50% off. The retailer/store would set the price for the readers. For example, if the retail price of a book was $7.99, Amazon would pay the publisher $3.98 for that book and then charge the reader some amount. Some retailers like Amazon or Fictionwise or All Romance eBooks would sell these books at a discount, either a straight percentage off or some amount returned to the purchaser in rebate form.

>Under “Agency Pricing”, the publisher gets 70% of the book’s retail price and the retailer receives 30%.

If Amazon had its way, they'd be driving prices far lower. Amazon is a vertically integrated company in this matter. They are both the distributor to the platform and the platform seller. It is in their best interests to not only drive up maximum sales of ebooks, but to do so via their own store, and thus sell more of their own devices, leading to more book and device sales etc. If they had it their way, the books would be rock bottom priced.

The publishers are trying ridiculously hard to protect their outdated business models and other revenue sources.

>“Publishers do price ebooks a little higher than necessary, because they’re concerned about devaluing people’s perception of books,” humor writer Larry Doyle says. “They’re worried that if they sell the digital editions for too little, they’ll have to lower prices for the paper editions as well, which would undercut their main source of revenue.”

I could go on and on with evidence, but here's the kicker:

Authors themselves want these books priced lower. They see the potential for larger sales in this, as many an economic paper and real life example has shown. To this end, many are starting to self-publish. There are reports of this happening on all scales.

Independent writer becomes first to sell 1 million kindle books

>He saw that many successful authors were charging almost $10 (£6) for a book and decided that he would undercut them – selling his own efforts for 99 cents (60 pence).

>"I’ve been in commission sales all my life, and when I learned Kindle and the other e-book platforms offered a royalty of 35 per cent on books priced at 99 cents, I couldn’t believe it," he said.

>"To most people, 35 cents doesn’t sound like much. To me, it seemed like a license to print money.

At 65% of the revenue, Amazon made a killing on that without having to do anything. Amazon takes around 30% of books over 2.99, but more on books that are less. Other major ebook sellers are offering up to 70% to the author at any price point.

On the other hand, the world's richest author has decided to self-publish ebooks as well.

J.K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, still retained the rights to ebook sales of her work, and decided recently that she is going to sell them directly to the ebook sites. This has created quite a stir with her publisher, and a lot of eyes are on this. It is expected she is going to vastly undercut the price models they currently use for Ebooks, and make more money than she would have through the publisher who would have charged more.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/24/what-harry-potter-e-books-mean-for-apple/

This isn't a 'convenience people are willing to pay for'. Traditional uses of that terminology suggests something that costs more but people are willing to pay it. This costs less. Far less. The publishers defend against this saying there is more to the cost than we realize, but in reality these are artificially created costs, costs that can be eliminated when approached with a modern business model. Frankly, what it comes down to is an antiquated business model trying to protect itself. And that never works.

Editors can be hired freelance, designers aren't that necessary. Specifically they refer to book designers i.e. font, layout, paper choices etc. A digital format like .mobi does not layout pages. Or have a font set in stone.. These are all maintained on the fly by the device, and can be changed at a whim.

TL;DR Basically, your reasoning may be why YOU are willing to pay it. But it has nothing to do with the market itself, and why prices are so high. Amazon would gladly drop the prices, as would the authors. It's the middlemen trying to protect their livelihood that keeps the prices artificially high. You can argue all you like, but I can tell you that, having been in the textbooks sales industry myself, I have seen almost exactly the same issues arising. I assure you, Amazon itself would refute your claim that they’re trying to maximize prices. They were forced into it by the major publishers. And there are many, many resources out there from all spectrum of analysis that will tell you that this is all artificial inflation by companies grabbing at straws in order to hang on to their business models. The fact that there is so much press about this very matter is one of many indicators of the truth of the matter.

u/lobster_johnson · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

I recommend Gene Wolfe's masterpiece The Book of the New Sun, easily my favourite fantasy work alongside AoIaF and LotR. Wolfe is not that well known about fantasy readers, but he deserves a top spot; Neil Gaiman calls him his hero.

The New Sun is wonderfully dense and complex, easily as complex as ASoIaF. The writing is superb (at a much higher literary level than Martin), with plenty of violence and darkness and weirdness. It starts out deceptively like a straight-faced sword and sorcery novel, and then it gets… complicated. It's notable for deconstructing traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasy and turning the heroic epic on its head. It's fairly gritty, and deals with amorality in a way which can be off-putting to some. Its plot is positively panoramic, spanning a huge amount of time. It even has a bit of apparent time travel, in a good way.

It's a single novel, comes in five volumes (with hoary cover art, just ignore it) plus an extra volume written later that is not mandatory reading. If you like New Sun, Wolfe has two series set in the same universe that could be considered sequels, and which together comprise a sort of thematic trilogy about the nature of identity and narrative.

u/roguetue · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

The Hedge Knight in Legends 1 paperback - 13.59 and less
The Sworn Sword in Legends 2 paperback - 7.99
The Mystery Knight in Warriors 1 paperback - 7.99

I have posted these before. Can we get a mod to add these to the sidebar so we can end these questions and people's links to torrents and PDFs. Also, these are available as graphic novels/comics as well, but I think they are pretty limited in quantity and quite expensive.

This may seem unreasonable for a couple of novellas, but they are actually good collections. Some of the stories are really good. If its really too much, they are generally available at your local library.

EDIT: If you really love ASOIAF, please buy these. More money will hopefully encourage GRRM to keep writing!

u/S3Prototype297 · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

I'm very late on this and it probably won't matter, but I figured I'd take a chance anyway.

Perjure: Welcome to the Multiverse is probably the perfect book for you.

Just from what you wrote in your post, I assume your problem with books now is that they lack the depth and complexity of ASOIAF? Perjure is a multi-POV story set in a world where the Multiverse consists not of parallel universes but separate universes entirely--ones that you can travel between, where completely different alien races have evolved.

The Watchers are a Multiversal government that claims domain over most human-populated universes, and they've dispatched a team of special agents to track down and destroy a conscious disease that adds its victims to its hivemind network. Meanwhile Earth's universe dies, and only one boy survives. While searching for ways he might bring back his universe, he learns that this conscious disease the Watchers are hunting might be able to help him, so he heads off to save the disease before the Watchers can wipe it out.

This all happens while another Watcher agent sent to spy on the mission observes everything from the shadows.

It's an intense book with political manipulation, adventure and lots of emotion. I wrote it after reading books like ASOIF and watching shows like House of Cards. I think any fan of either series will love it a lot. Here's the amazon link.

u/TechProto · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

I have a recommendation, though I'm preparing myself for potential downvotes.

Perjure: Welcome to the Multiverse is a scifi story heavily inspired by ASOIAF. The tl;dr explanation is that the Multiverse is not an infinite set of alternate universes, but a void in which infinite separate universes exist. Basically the Multiverse is to a universe as the universe is to a galaxy--some people can travel between them and visit the planets within.

You end up with people from different eras mixing. Half-cyborg people interacting with worlds that are still in the dark ages, or trans-human half-AI intelligences interacting with the equivalent of 21st century people.

There's an organization called the Watchers who try to keep the universes segregated--humans in these universes, non-humans in those universes--and the plot centers around an alien race that is essentially a sentient disease. It spreads through food and water, and when it infects a human body it takes it over and adds it to the hive mind. The Watchers try to wipe this creature out, but the main character needs it alive because it can help him restore his home universe, which was destroyed--the universe Earth existed in.

The story is told over 4 POV's, and there's a lot of political maneuvering, backstabbing, plot-twisting and lore, which is all heavily inspired by book series like ASOIAF and TV shows like House of Cards.

Full disclosure, and the reason I might get downvoted, if anyone reads this at all: I'm the author. Still, this is honestly the story I've been reading and re-reading (editing, working on the sequel) as I await TWOW.

u/nowonmai666 · 8 pointsr/asoiaf

The Hedge Knight is available in this book or this one. (Kindle edition)

I don't think the prices are ridiculous. Are you perhaps looking at the graphic novel version? That's out of print and expensive, but not really the canonical telling of the tale.

The Tales of Dunk and Egg are definitely worth reading. The titular characters are my favourites in all of GRRM's writing, and seeing what Westeros was like under the Targaryens is neat background for ASOIAF. They're light-hearted and more fun than ASOIAF, but at the same time they show more of how the actions of all these fancy princes and nobles affect the smallfolk than do the other books. If you found those parts of A Feast For Crows poignant, you'll love Dunk and Egg.

u/Micksar · 31 pointsr/asoiaf

If you are referring to this one https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Board-Second/dp/1589947207 then yes.

If you really love board games and you have enough friends that would embark on the journey that is the GoT board game, def buy it. My friends and I play it a few times a month. It's a very complex(yet at the same time simple) board game. It takes about 4 hours to complete, however. If you don't think you'll have enough people to spend the time and brainpower on the 4 hour game I suggest buying the expansion packs which are for four players. If you try to play the original version with 5 or 4, it won't end fairly due to the open lands being too easy for southern house to snatch up.

Overall... yes. It rules.

u/LuminariesAdmin · 5 pointsr/asoiaf

As others have said, I would advise against that. Only watching say KL & the North in the show & skipping the others until you have watched all of those would be extremely difficult enough; doing so in the books would be a whole other world of pain.

I don't really have a tips for getting through them sorry (I'm something of an avid reader & absolutely devoured them first time & many subsequent re-reads, but not everyone is like that & that's fine), though I would suggest reading A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms after A Storm of Swords as bit of a breather after the first three books & before you launch into the behemoths that are A Feast for Crows & A Dance with Dragons. AKot7K is set decades before the main series (so you will probably pick up on a few historical references made in the main series), has a lighter tone, only a single PoV, many great illustrations & is only three short stories (the whole thing is only about half the length of the first book, A Game of Thrones, if that).

Once you get to AFfC & ADwD, you may be best to read them together as GRRM originally intended for them to be the one book but he expanded on them to maintain such. They mostly happen concurrently with a few PoVs starting towards the end of ASoS in terms of actual in-universe timeline & then the last part of Dance happens after Feast (with some of the Feast PoVs appearing once or twice in that part of Dance & some were pushed back to The Winds of Winter, the upcoming 6th book).

Just not to overload you with information now, once you finish ASoS make a post (or just do a search) asking about the combined reading orders & you will get detailed suggestions for such. Then once you make it through the main series, you can make another post/search about what other books within the ASoIaF universe you can also check out between re-reads ;)

Good luck!

u/Khumalo_Neurochem · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

Richard K. Morgan: A land fit for heroes

It's a pretty damn good fantasy series. I got into it because his cyberpunk noir novels were so damn good. Altered Carbon and the rest of the Takeshi Kovacs novels were excellent.

Also, I was lucky enough to have friends immediately recommend Joe Abercrombie post asoiaf. The First Law Trilogy is absolutely gripping. Personally, I think it's better than asoiaf.

u/Huevon · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

If you haven't already, you should check out Feast of Ice and Fire, the official cookbook approved by George R.R. Martin. I've made some pretty awesome stuff out of that book.

I love the references to relevant quotes from the books before each recipe.

u/alycks · 21 pointsr/asoiaf

We all tease Gurm about the food descriptions, but we all love them. I've been cooking out of A Feast of Ice and Fire for days now. It's AWESOME.

u/Peterpolusa · 1 pointr/asoiaf

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/055338595X/ref=tmm_pap_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1344365548&sr=8-1

Well Amazon says it doesn't ship until March of 2013. But that sounds a little late. Personally I just gave up and bought the hardcover. But maybe one day I'll will own all the fancy hardcover ones. It costs WAY to much but you do get nicer maps, pretty little gold inlay, and it just looks better imo.

u/BruceWinslow · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

The first three were released as part of a larger collection of novellas from other popular fantasy writers. I'll break it down for you, since I have all 3 of them on my kindle...
The Hedge Knight is included in this book: Legends
The Sworn Sword is in this book: Legends II
The Mystery Knight is in this book: Warriors

The other novellas that are included in these collections are also pretty good, so if you're in to fantasy you might as well check them out. Maybe you'll discover a writer you really like and decide to read more of their stuff.

u/Dwayne_J_Murderden · 1 pointr/asoiaf

Dunk & Egg is entirely told from the point of view of Ser Duncan the Tall, a young knight out for adventure in Westeros, and since they're short stories they're far more action packed than any book of ASoIaF.

The first three Dunk & Egg tales are only available in anthologies.

The Hedge Knight

The Sworn Sword

The Mystery Knight

Combined they would cost more than ADwD, regardless of what format you buy it in. I would definitely recommend reading them at some point (and they provide at least 2 big reveals in ASoIaF), they are not necessary to read before Dance. There will be a second Warriors anthology coming out in the fall/winter I believe, containing the fourth Dunk & Egg story. Shortly after that release all 4 stories will be released in a volume together. That said, there are other great short stories in these anthologies, so you may find it worth it to get them.

u/WolfSpiderBuddy · 1 pointr/asoiaf

Great - I'm really glad to hear that when you bought the books on Amazon yesterday morning, you paid $28. Can you please check your Amazon order history and give us the link to the listing for how you bought Sworn Sword?

All I could find is this one which is only Kindle and marketplace, and this one which is only Kindle, and this one which again is only Kindle and marketplace. Is there another one I'm not seeing?

u/MustardBucket · 1 pointr/asoiaf

I received this as a Christmas present last year and it is wonderful. Almost all of the recipes are adaptable to more modern/easily obtainable ingredients and the meals can be very cheap. Awesome way to cook and read :)

u/Anonymous3891 · 9 pointsr/asoiaf

Not quite the same thing, but I was given this for my birthday:

http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Ice-Fire-Official-Companion/dp/0345534492

It's a great book and GRRM even wrote a foreword. One of my favorite bits is how a contest entry of his was called 'food porn' by a judge.

u/Coppin-it-washin-it · 7 pointsr/asoiaf

I don't know of any hardcovers like that but there is a nice looking set of all 5 books in the cloth/leather material with very minimalist, clean looking covers. I just got the set actually.

Amazon link below:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101965487?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01

u/TAEHSAEN · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

Get A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

This series follows the story of Duncan the Tall (of the Kingsguard) and his squire called Egg.

GRRM wrote the stories in between writing the main ASOIAF story.

Trust me, they're absolutely fantastic. You'll fall in love the with the characters in no time and you'll get to see GRRM's legendary world-building writing skills.

u/howispellit · 1 pointr/asoiaf

Oh, I hadn't thought about the next book? Maybe like a burnt, or dark orange would be a good way to go!

It was a Amazon Prime deal, so $25 for me.


/u/kak09k found a good link for this set for 45
>https://www.amazon.com/George-Martins-Thrones-Leather-Cloth-Boxed/dp/1101965487/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51o4SafxrCL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=3XFJ5EVKZZFDNK5P317D

u/absolutkiss · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

Seems pretty off. He already has chapters written for the sixth book. He is working on another anthology like the successful Warriors.

Here's a blog post by GRRM talking about what he's up to...

u/yellingoneandzero · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

I can't give you "titles of the chapters are the characters' names", but Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy is one often recommended here, and for good reason. It shares an epic, wide-ranging, and (usually) tautly-paced plot advanced through multiple viewpoints and characters painted entirely in grey, along with exposing the harder edges of the world its characters populate.

u/white_shades · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

Those are the three currently published, yes. Gurm has stated there will be (if my memory serves) 12 altogether. I highly recommend the edition of TKOTSK illustrated by Gary Gianni, it's beautiful.

u/howmanymeninthenorth · -6 pointsr/asoiaf

I'm pretty sure they are published. I've read them all numerous times. Here's a link to Amazon. Really good deal for the book set.

https://www.amazon.com/Thrones-Clash-Kings-Swords-Dragons/dp/0345535529

u/daddylongstroke17 · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

Dunk & Egg were written novellas before they were graphic novels. There's 2 versions. You want this one. And yes, they're amazing and I'd recommend reading them ASAP.

u/Statboy1 · 1 pointr/asoiaf

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500582704&sr=1-9&keywords=game+of+thrones

That one is great, its the illustrated edition. Also A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a great supplementary book. It only has 1 POV character, Sir Duncan the Tall.

u/God_Wills_It_ · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

Here is the collection of them. As the other commenter said they are some stories that take place about 100 years before the ASOIAF novels.

I found them to be awesome. I highly recommend them for any fan of ASOIAF.

u/GyantSpyder · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

My girlfriend actually tracked down all three of the anthologies they originally appeared in and got them for me off Amazon as a Christmas present. She ended up putting a fair amount of work into getting them (we watch the show together, but she's never read the books, and this was a surprise, so piecing them together and differentiating them from The Rogue Prince and the Princess and the Queen and whatnot was tough, but she nailed it), and I was super psyched.

Here are the three anthologies on Amazon. Each has one Dunk & Egg tale:

http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Stories-Masters-Modern-Fantasy/dp/0765300354

http://www.amazon.com/Legends-II-Dragon-Sword-King/dp/034547578X/ref=pd_sim_b_8?ie=UTF8&refRID=13WQN95SWXMD5VZC4SNC

http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-1-George-R-R-Martin/dp/0765360268/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=13WQN95SWXMD5VZC4SNC

u/Turboboxer · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

I did the Audiobooks first but I was so hooked I read them too. Cheap on Amazon for the paperback collection

Great for referencing

u/jalledebest · 2 pointsr/asoiaf
  1. The pictures are from The Illustrated Edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Thrones-Illustrated-Song-Fire/dp/0553808044
    This edition only exists for the first novel, it was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first book.

    As for buying the entire series: I prefer the 7 part set where the third and fifth novel are spilt in two parts, because these are a larger format than the 5 part set. But if you don't mind pocket editions, the 5 part set is probably cheaper. Or you could also buy them in hardcover or leatherbound, but those are more expensive, definitely the leather ones.
u/alyeong · 5 pointsr/asoiaf

They're kind of hard to come across because well, they're always included in collections. The Mystery Knight is in a collection called Warriors. I've read all the Novellas since the Hedge Knight was originally published in the first Legends collection. Luckily there is a paperback available for Legends 1 but I think it's out of print. Also to be more confusing, the paperback it's contained in is called Legends 2 because it's the second part of the hardcover or something? But Legends II collection is where you get the Sworn Sword. Well here's a handy list though some might not be in stock (PB = Paperback/HC = Hardcover):

  • The Hedge Knight - Legends 1 PB HC
  • The Hedge Knight - Graphic Novel PB HC
  • The Sworn Sword - Legends II PB HC
  • The Sworn Sword - Graphic Novel - PB HC
  • The Mystery Knight - Warriors I PB HC
u/OneRedBeard · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

Well, it did, minus the Hot Pie thing:

http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Ice-Fire-Official-Companion/dp/0345534492

I own this, and it is delicious! :-)

u/KosstAmojan · 5 pointsr/asoiaf

Sounds like you're being excessively fixated on accuracy of a world purposefully written to be vague. Westeros is approximately the length of South America, per Martin's statements and this is generally accepted by the community.

If you want more info, feel free to check out the official book of maps.

u/BourbonInExile · 7 pointsr/asoiaf

The anthologies aren't random - he edited them.

The anthologies aren't expensive:

  • Legends containing The Hedge Knight for $7.99

  • Legends II containing The Sworn Sword for $7.99

  • Warriors containing The Mystery Knight for $8.89

    Also, they're full of short stories from other great authors.

    If you're willing to pay $7.00 for the graphic novel, why would you complain about shelling out an extra $0.99 for text with bonus stories? Digital piracy is not paying the iron price. It's more like the Sorefoot King price - stumbling along whining about what you're entitled to but haven't earned.

    Edit - Corrected "Heroes" to "Warriors", "print" to "text", and added links to Amazon for the Kindle versions
u/jjspaceman · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

There is also a GoT board game that's pretty cool, but complex. Also cool, they released an expansion that takes into account where the houses are in books 4 and 5.

(Note, links to Amazon store page/product description might be spoiler-ish).

u/blackofhairandheart2 · 19 pointsr/asoiaf

You can get all three stories collected in one volume entitled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for less than $20 on Amazon.

This edition contains exclusive new artwork but has the original three stories in their original form.

u/MsgGodzilla · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

You might be better off looking into something like this
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-D20-Based-Open-Gaming/dp/1588469425

I know how much fun it can be to convert D&D into different settings, but it is a HUGE amount of work. I spent weeks creating a Ghostbusters P&P RPG in the Shadowrun 4th edition system, and it was just to much work.

edit I just saw the price tag, IGNORE ME!

u/kentonwayne · 1 pointr/asoiaf

This is the set i got when i wanted a physical copy. I like it a lot. I also have the woiaf, which is awesome too.

u/jfong86 · 1 pointr/asoiaf

The twitter link you posted has an amazon link that contains affiliate tags. That means the person who created the link makes money on each purchase. You may resubmit your post but use a clean amazon link instead:

https://www.amazon.com/Thrones-Clash-Kings-Swords-Dragons/dp/0345535529/

u/le_canuck · 1 pointr/asoiaf

You can get short story collections that contain them through Amazon (Here, here, and here), but that'll add up price wise. I think GRRM is putting together an anthology of the Dunk and Egg novels, so you may want to hold off until then.

u/1mmunity · 1 pointr/asoiaf

you might be looking at the graphic novel version of the hedgeknight and thats why its so expensive look them up in the anthology forms and you might have more success:
Legends 1 (contains the Hedgeknight) Legends 2 (contains The Sworn Sword), and Warriors 1 (Contains the Mystery Knight)

u/brashendeavors · 7 pointsr/asoiaf

Do you mean videogames like Telltale Games series or even Crusader Kings mod?

Or do you mean more of a pen and paper or tabletop or card game?


Or any of the above as long as people liked them?

u/Nittanian · 61 pointsr/asoiaf

That first map is a fan-made version inspired by HBO's map for the TV series.

The second map is the canon map designed by Jonathan Roberts for the books and approved by GRRM. It was first published in The Lands of Ice and Fire.

u/BourbonOK · 1 pointr/asoiaf

On a cool note, GRRM is releasing a 35,000 word novella focusing on the Blackfyre Rebellion in a compilation book due out in December. As well if you haven't read the The Hedge Knight series of Novellas (Super good, so check them out if you haven't) they explain it in that a little.

http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Women-George-R-R-Martin/dp/076533206X

u/IgnoreYourDoctor · 1 pointr/asoiaf

Book of the New Sun. Dense, awesome allegorical sci/fi-fantasy. Its my first read through and I'm already hooked.

Before that I read Pohl's Gateway and American Gods. Cannot recommend Gateway enough.

u/Ginnerben · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

They're not currently released as stand-alones, apart from an illustrated edition, IIRC.

Your best bet to find them is in the collections they were published in:

Here, here, and here (Links taken from the sidebar).

u/ungoogleable · 1 pointr/asoiaf

What are you talking about? The current Amazon prices are $13.59, $7.99, and $7.99, with free shipping if you buy them together. Used is even cheaper.

u/MightyIsobel · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

Hello, this post was removed because it was promoting a link to Amazon with an affiliate tag in it.

You may repost this offer with a link directly to the Amazon deal:

u/PrivateMajor · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

They are cheap to buy online.

Sword Sword

Mystery Knight

And it's cool because they are only part of the bigger anthology, so if you buy these, you get a whole bunch of cool stories!

u/feldman10 · 1 pointr/asoiaf

The American paperback of ADWD has not been released. GRRM has promised a preview chapter in it when it does come out, but the publisher keeps delaying it because the hardcover is still selling very well.

u/thedudeabides138 · 14 pointsr/asoiaf

As a fat guy who loves food, I've always loved his food-porn. Not just because I love descriptions of food, but because I really am able to immerse myself in the scene. Smell and taste are some of the most memory-triggering senses we have, and it puts you right there with the character.

However, you are absolutely right that he's using this as a way to convey the class divisions and the hardship of war, and it's not something that is often brought up.

Also, if anyone doesn't know about it, I highly recommend the Official Games of Thrones Cookbook. It's got excellent, real medieval recipes based on the food in the book:(https://www.amazon.com/Feast-Ice-Fire-Official-Companion/dp/0345534492)

u/Tyrog_ · 1 pointr/asoiaf

It's not the graphic novels I'm talking about. It's a book regrouping the three novellas in one book and it has a lot of sketches representing some scenes and characters. It's not the graphic novel, although I've seen it and it looks great.

This is what I read (the cover is different in Europe, it's white) :

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345533488/ref=s9_simh_gw_g14_i1_r?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-1&pf_rd_r=05K601XAQJFJVZCGSZB1&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2079475242&pf_rd_i=desktop

u/rwolfe · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

Just so you know, the Dunk and Egg stories are available really cheap online in various anthologies; the latest one I bought at Barnes and Noble.

EDIT: Here are amazon links to the said anthologies

The Hedge Knight

The Sworn Sword

The Mystery Knight

u/kargat · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

Joe Abercrombie came out with a decent series (First Law Trilogy) that managed to keep my attention for a few months. It was the first fantasy I had read since ASOIAF and it took me a bit to get into them because I'm soo attached to the ASOIAF characters... I got over that and ended up really enjoying these.

u/thecrench · 4 pointsr/asoiaf

Yes, the first two novellas were remade into graphic novels and you can find them under $10 on amazon. The third novella you can find in Warriors, which shouldnt be too hard to find.

u/warprattler · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

Quick link to http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Ice-Fire-Official-Companion/dp/0345534492 (A Feast of Ice and Fire).

  • Stark Beer -- Served without head

  • Brothers Baratheon -- peach schnapps, fireball, mead

  • Dragon Pepper Chili -- Three hot peppers and whatever.

  • Hear me roar -- Add the head from the Stark Beer with the Brothers Baratheon, into the meat from the Dragon Pepper Chili (preferably boar)

    Bonus:


  • Eunuch spaghetti and meatballs -- without the meatballs
u/IWantSpaceships · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

The UK paperback is already out, but it was split into two volumes. The US paperback was due out in August, but it was delayed until early next year. The only US release so far is the hardcover. I feel like I've seen pics of a one volume paperback ADWD though...

tl;dr - The $35 hardcover that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have for $21 or the eBook version that both have for $15.

> I'm supposed to wait some 3-4 years after ADWD for the next book? Rough, since I started the series this June.

Yes :( You can try to find the Tales of Dunk & Egg in the anthologies each one comes in (Legends, Legends II, and Warriors). A fourth Dunk & Egg novella is coming out soon, and all four will be released in one volume afterwards.

u/yo2sense · 1 pointr/asoiaf

Bloodraven is actually a character introduced in the prequels. Are you aware of the Dunk and Egg stories now collected in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

They are well worth reading. The first story was published before A Clash of Kings so they are really integral to the series I believe.

u/willwill78 · 1 pointr/asoiaf

You can buy them as a part of compendiums

The Hedge Night can be ound here - http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Stories-Masters-Modern-Fantasy/dp/0765300354/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347277911&sr=8-1&keywords=legends

The Sworn Sword can be found here - http://www.amazon.com/Legends-II-Dragon-Sword-King/dp/034547578X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

And The Mystery Night can be found here -
http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-1-George-R-R-Martin/dp/0765360268/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z

You can get all 3 for about $30 and free shipping. You can also check your local library since each is only about 100 or so pages.

u/Ser_Samshu · 1 pointr/asoiaf

Here



Or Here




I am not aware of a place where you can get it for free (legally)...but there may be a place and I just don't know it.

u/CaptainDubby · 1 pointr/asoiaf

There is a trilogy of short stories called "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms". It's very good.

u/eighthgear · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

It is from The Lands of Ice and Fire, a book with several other neat maps in it.

u/TanKer-Cosme · 8 pointsr/asoiaf

Are all the books (that are published) gonna be realesed in an Ilustrated version like this one?

I see A Clash of Kings also to be realesed in November 4th but is from another author. Any way to get news about this?

u/uehmik · 17 pointsr/asoiaf

As far as I know, there is no way to buy digital copies of these yet. The only way I was able to find them was via the fantasy compilations:
Legends I,
Legends II,
Warriors I

Btw, I have no affiliation with Amazon, it was just easy to find on their site.

I almost enjoyed them more than asoiaf because there's there's no shifting POV characters for all 3 "novellas." Everything is always from the POV of Ser Duncan the Tall.

u/Snake_7 · 5 pointsr/asoiaf

Watched the show, want to get into the books.

Thought of getting a nice copy, has anyone picked up the leather-bound edition?

They look a lot less boring than the Mass-market Paperback and only for $10 more.

u/IndispensableNobody · 7 pointsr/asoiaf

To answer your question about the recipes, a cookbook has been released. I'm sure someone has made some lemony lemon lemoncakes.

u/Munson4657 · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0765300354?pc_redir=1396635801&robot_redir=1

This the Legends anthology which it was originally published in. Would that work or did you want the stand alone? I believe the stand alone is so expensive because of GoT and it originally not having a huge printing. I believe that they are spose to be reprinting but can't remember if that was for the novella or graphic novel.

u/Ron735 · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

These are the ones I bought. They are all paperback not hardcover. Legends is the most expensive since its a bigger book than the rest of them and the other two are mass produced paperback. I don't know if there is a mass produced paperback version of Legends 1 or not.

Legends 1: ~$15

Legends 2: ~$7

Warriors 1: ~$7

Total: ~$30 plus shipping on amazon

u/shagui · 10 pointsr/asoiaf

You don't want to see the Brazilian version... cringe galore. Half the house's and character's names are comically translated and the other half in the original English versions.
I had to order the A Game of Thrones: The Board Game from amazon to Brazil because the Portuguese version takes the names from the translated books and is both laughable and confusing

u/cheddarhead4 · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

I know - The FAQ takes you to this page on amazon that lets you buy the kindle version of the first anthology. Here is the second and here is the third.

u/preggit · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

If you want just the stories, they were published as part of a collection of short stories by several fantasy writers. They are each just a few bucks on amazon:

Book 1 - The Hedge Knight

Book 2 - The Sworn Sword

Book 3 - The Mystery Knight

u/ckuiper · 1 pointr/asoiaf

I feel like this would be a little cooler, but it doesn't ship until Halloween.

u/DarthSontin · 4 pointsr/asoiaf

According to Books-a-Million it's August 28: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Dance-Dragons/George-R-Martin/9780553385953

Edit: Amazon has it listed for the same date: www.amazon.com/Dance-Dragons-Song-Fire-Book/dp/055338595X/

u/lunarblossoms · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

The first three are contained in separate collections of short stories, and there are also the graphic novels, which are expensive. I got books on Amazon for around $30 total US.

Warriors I
Legends
Legends II

u/Qoburn · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

They are not, though there are graphic novel versions. The stories were initially published in three different short-story anthologies, but were recently republished together in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

u/shall_2 · 2 pointsr/asoiaf

Haha ... You know he already for a cookbook right?

A Feast of Ice and Fire

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0345534492/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/184-8338075-7869102

u/toast3 · 11 pointsr/asoiaf

If you ever want to try making a few of the dishes, give this cookbook a shot.

u/Institutionlzd4114 · 3 pointsr/asoiaf

Warriors I is the anthology that has the story. The link is for Amazon. If you're outside the U.S., I can't really help you.

u/carieiscreepy · 6 pointsr/asoiaf

They're each in a different anthology.

The Hedge Knight

The Sworn Sword

Mystery Knight

Although, they seem to have gone up a considerable amount in price since I bought them.

u/Extradaemon · 5 pointsr/asoiaf

They Have

...can't tell if Sarcasm...

u/Kropoko · 174 pointsr/asoiaf

>He will publish an official ASOIAF cookbook before TWOW if he wants to.

He already has:

http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Ice-Fire-Official-Companion/dp/0345534492

u/Scariot · 5 pointsr/asoiaf

You should look into this getting this, A Feast of Ice and Fire

u/shooby25 · 1 pointr/asoiaf

What if I told you that such a cookbook existed?

u/jaco6y · 7 pointsr/asoiaf

A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast of Crows / A Dance with Dragons https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345535529/

I had bought this same version a while ago for around $50 but I think it’s on sale.