Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin

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  ayma
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  What an awesome episode? Thanks a lot for your share. We’d like to enjoy this book with gratitude.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  caesar963
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Bloody brilliant, LoganB! Forgot about this one, it has to be better than The World of Ice & Fire. More like Edward Gibbon with dragons. After these, hopefully George will get back to work.

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  shakespeare@abb
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Thanks

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  suburbansteve
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Big thanx for this….

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  tpstps
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Brilliant!! Thank you so much!!

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  OnyxBella
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Awesome!! Thanks for the share.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Clairefraser
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Thank you so much!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  verbaar1
  November 26th, 2018
  

  Thank you very much.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  TotallyDisenfranchised
  November 26th, 2018
  

  Logan B, thank you for the post. Although I find myself very conflicted as to whether or not I want to listen to this. I read Game of Thrones when it first came out back when I was in college and loved it.

  However, with the description saying this is a two-part history, I don’t know if I believe Martin will ever finish it.

  With GoT’s success, Martin probably feed HBO this as prequel material, and now is cashing in on a book deal. But, like GoT, HBO will have to finish the story.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Horstman
  November 26th, 2018
  

  Finally as m4b, yay! Thank you!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  rnc_wind
  November 26th, 2018
  

  I’m waiting for an mp3 release,please!!!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  sonic2010
  November 26th, 2018
  

  Thanks for the up load.Well done!!!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Alger
  November 26th, 2018
  

  

  Huge thanks, LoganB!!!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Horstman
  November 26th, 2018
  

  rnc_wind:
  Seriously? You can convert the m4b (=best quality currently available) into mp3 with a gazilion of free programs.
  Or you can grab a previously available and *inferior sounding* mp3 version: https://www.file-upload.com/qlyquanl22m4 / https://mega.nz/#F!85sBRKRJ!3GIsIbkUWHlx9eJFQe3v8A

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  GenghisKhan128
  November 27th, 2018
  

  

  Thanks for the share. i actually had it and chose not to share this one. I don’t recommend it, unless you want to hear a stripped history book. it’s basically just names and brief histories of past targarians. He even destroys the whole Stark figuring out about the incest kids. they are all mixed blood and kids of targarian and barathian end up with silver hair. plus the houses are so mixed together with this book, it should all just be one house after a thousand years. hope it helps a little.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Chipy25
  November 27th, 2018
  

  @caesar963, I have good news: It has been revealed that GRRM is right now in his “bunker”, a cabin he has somewhere, where he goes to finish his books. Apparently, the last time he secluded himself in the “bunker”, writing “A Dance with Dragons”, he finished it in about a month…

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Chipy25
  November 28th, 2018
  

  @GenghisKhan128, I don’t understand your criticism.

  “I don’t recommend it, unless you want to hear a stripped history book.”

  That’s exactly what it is and what it is INTENDED to be: a fictional, in-universe history book about the Targaryens, from Aegon’s Conquest to the aftermath of the Dance of the Dragons, giving readers a far more in-depth understanding of Westeros’ history under Targaryen rule.
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  “it’s basically just names and brief histories of past targarians.”

  Well, “brief” is relative. About 50 pages are dedicated to Aegon the Conqueror alone. Over 50 others to his two sons. 236 pages to his grandson, the Old King. 51 pages to Viserys I and the events leading up to the terrible civil war that is the Dance of the Dragons. 178 pages dedicated to the civil war itself and another 138 pages to the Dance’s aftermath and the early (regency-controlled) reign of the first post-civil war king, Aegon III (the Dragonbane). Also, those names were referenced and mentioned in the main series, here they are expanded and explained (such as how the City Watch of King’s Landing became known as the “Gold Cloaks” and who Rhaenyra, a character mentioned several times throughout the books, including in a memorable occasion by Stannis to Davos, was). Thus, ironically, while in the main series they really are mostly “names”, here they are characters.
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  “He even destroys the whole Stark figuring out about the incest kids. they are all mixed blood and kids of targarian and barathian end up with silver hair. plus the houses are so mixed together with this book, it should all just be one house after a thousand years. hope it helps a little.”

  That’s nonsense. This history is merely the backstory of the main series. In fact, it follows nicely with medieval history (that is, it is historically accurate), where nobles married into other noble families, without ending their respective houses. Or were you under the impression that incest is the norm in all the noble houses? Indeed, that the noble houses “mix” is easily provable: Ned’s and Jon’s wives are Tully, and Robert’s is Lannister. Did you question while reading (or watching) “A Game of Thrones” why, if the aforementioned marriages existed, did Houses Lannister and Tully still exist, despite marriages to other families?

  Also, if you pay attention to the books, it is made VERY clear that Robert Baratheon is king because (well, at least in Ned Stark’s eyes) he has a blood claim to the throne (his grandmother was a Targaryen). Moreover, the companion books (this one and “World of Ice and Fire”) have shown that the first Baratheon in Westeros (Orys, I think) was Aegon’s second-in-command, best friend, and possible half-brother (meaning the Westerosi Baratheon line may have always had Targaryen blood). Indeed, the books often reference characters and events that this book and “The World of Ice and Fire” elaborates on.

  Finally, to the specific claim that is “destroys” Ned figuring out the bastardry of Cersei’s children. That is absolutely not true. Ned learnt about it (following Jon Arryn’s investigations, after the suspicious Stannis’ request) because of their phenotypic qualities, that is, their observable genes. Baratheons have dominant genes, which means that their children (almost) always inherit their traits. However, Cersei’s THREE children, all had the comparably weaker Lannister traits, which had significant implications about their parentage.

  To my knowledge, the only clear historical example (at least that would appear in this book) of a Baratheon-Targaryen child inheriting Valyrian traits is the Queen Who Never Was, whose father was Valyrian and and whose mother was half-Valyrian, half-Baratheon, meaning she was 3/4 Valyrian, which hardly affects Ned’s (and Jon’s and Stannis’, before him) conclusions that Cersei’s children are bastards.

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  PS: If this book contradicts stated “facts” (historical ones, mostly) in the main series, it is likelier that the characters stating the “facts” are historically-ignorant and this book (written by an academic and historian) is right or closer to the truth (besides comments about magic and the supernatural, which are (deliberately by GRRM) dismissive, since Westerosi scholars are dismissive of those subjects). This is all part of the realism (the real-life feel) that GRRM tries to give “A Song of Ice and Fire”…

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  caesar963
  November 28th, 2018
  

  Thanks for the good news, Chipy - but you know too much. Are you, in reality, the beleaguered GRRM? Avoiding work, once again? Cut the wi-fi to the bunker!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Chipy25
  November 28th, 2018
  

  First, GRRM (who is definitely not me!) hasn’t posted anything in his blog for almost two weeks (he, not me, last commented on Stan Lee’s (one of HIS, not “my”, most important influences) death).

  And second…
  Curses! They found out! To my other secret bunker (which definitely doesn’t have wi-fi either)!

  *runs off into the woods, but quickly gets tired and has to mount a carriage drawn by rounseys*

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  caesar963
  November 29th, 2018
  

  It’d take the full power of some very brave rounseys to bear the weight of that mighty scribe.
  So (Winds of) Winter is finally coming. If he handed it over to Stephen King, Steve would have the entire series finished between breakfast and lunch. It’s not as if George engages the services of an editor, what with those weighty tomes.
  Is this one any good? Is it up to the usual snuff (movie!) or standard?

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Wintermute00
  December 27th, 2018
  

  

  As a huge GRRM fan, I am enjoying it so far, though it is a little dry. It’s probably not for everyone.

  Is there a way to upload the .pdf file of the illustrations included with the original digital audiobook download? They’re mentioned in small print on the cover…That would be awesome. Thanks for the up!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  jsibley99
  February 18th, 2019
  

  

  Absolute hero of an uploader!

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  vshanecurtis
  April 15th, 2019
  

  File appears to be corrupted or has missing chapters. Splitting the file produced 23 chapters but online chapter lists show 2 chapters not found in the file

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  vshanecurtis
  April 16th, 2019
  

  File IS corrupted. I’ve compared it against a PDF of the book and there is at least one chapter missing.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  kittycatpurr1
  May 2nd, 2019
  

  This the next Sky Production project - Can’t wait!

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  peoplecanbestupid
  May 25th, 2019
  

  

  Thank you

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  Vingertopje
  September 12th, 2019
  

  Thanks

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  avioknight
  November 15th, 2019
  

  

  Thanks a lot. I love GOT.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  crashdummy_47
  September 10th, 2020
  

  

  Thank you very much for sharing this.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  crashdummy_47
  September 10th, 2020
  

  

  Thank you very much for sharing this.

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
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  bondhon500
  December 10th, 2025
  

  Thanks

  Fire and Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones (A Targaryen History) (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin

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