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What is the picture supposed to depict? Catelyn in thr Vale?
Help. This came out when I was about 7 weeks old.
It was quite literally my tenth birthday.
God this cover is stunning! I genuinely love the style of 80s and 90s fantasy covers. Certainly more than the minimalist designs that seems to be dominating these days.
Indeed. Do we know who it is supposed to portray and where?
"Modern covers whisper. '80s fantasy covers kick the door down riding a dragon."
The reason they changed from these covers were because often times the cover artiest had no idea what the actual books were about. The publisher would give some very non-descriptive keywords. Some publishers had artist on payroll who would just send random covers over. This lead to the book covers having nothing to do with the story and readers assuming characters on the cover are actually characters from the book. Also publishers would usually request 5-10, sometimes more or sometimes less, covers from different artists. This lead to artist making generic covers that they would send to publishers until it was actually picked for a book. Creating cover art used to be very, very time consuming especially knowing you might not even get paid.
Looks like a generic medieval fantasy cover to me - I doubt the artist knew enough about the contents of the book to draw something specific, especially for a new unreleased series that they had no idea would take off
It reminds me of the Choose Your Own Adventure book covers.
The greatest fantasy of all turned out to be believing the series would finish.
Influential in how to not finish a series.
Books and TV Show.
I was 7 at that time Daaaaamn
Damn... It really is a shame we won't have a proper ending to this captivating story...
What are you talking about?? We got an ending! /s in case it's needed
AGOT is such an amazing book to look back on. It pierces the heart of why ASOIAF is so good: it is fundamentally a mystery series. The mystery of who killed Jon Arryn never gets answered in AGOT because we stumble onto a million other newer and more enticing mysteries. That snowballing effect is what makes Martin's work such a page-turner.
What's that cover meant to be showing haha
Catelyn Stark and Ser Vardis Egan. I think this was Advance Reading Copy of the book back in the day
Every book series starts with a single book right?
The gap between A Dance with Dragons and today is officially as long as the gap between Book 1 and Book 5.
Praying to see winds soon
No we aren’t
No wonder they say don’t judge a book by its cover
It’s crazy how one book ended up creating such a massive universe
it's truly shocking how much game of thrones content I consume now when 2 years ago I had never seen the series or read the books and wrote them off as "fantasy for people who don't like fantasy". I was very wrong.
I wish George would accept help and recognise that he is stuck and seek help to complete the series. Or at least, hure ghost writers to finish his story according to his vision.
hard to believe it's been that long, feels like yesterday everyone was arguing about who would sit on the Iron Throne
... really? What exactly did it influence other than the TV show? I think the series is more the sum of it's own influences, rather than it's own major influence into "modern entertainment".
And its still not complete.....
I hope he ends up being known as one of the biggest failures in writing. 30 years is longer than I’ve been alive. There is 0 reason he couldn’t have finished this series by now. He deserves to be shit on and the shows suck too
And Incest Por\* hasn’t been the same since…