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2011 Holiday Gifts Roundup: A Song of Ice and Fire Art Books
If the thought of actually reading George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga makes your bowels turn to water, relax! You can look at this nice picture book from Fantasy Flight Games. The first volume came out in 2005, as did A Feast for Crows, so it’s only fitting that the second volume was released in in 2011 along with GRRM’s A Dance with Dragons.
Volume 1:
Volume 2:
Both volumes contain nearly 200 pages of artwork featured in A Game of Thrones card games and board games. Illustrated by many talented and award-winning artists, including Steve Stone, Ted Nasmith, John Howe, Stephen Youll and Charles Vess.
Be warned, these are hardcover books and could possibly jab or poke, and will not make good pillow-substitutes. Please be responsible in your use of these art books.
2011 Holiday Gifts Roundup: ASoIaF Hardcover Box Set
Who needs heavy bookends when you’ve got the hardcover box set of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire? So what if it doesn’t have A Dance with Dragons? You gonna wait 20 years for the full set to be done? I’m sure Amazon will make a second set to match this one.
Just to be clear, this hardcover set includes A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows. These will look pretty on your bookshelf, or displayed on a mantelpiece if those still exist. Just be sure your GRRM altar can carry the weight of a hefty 11.6 lbs of books! The Kindle version is much more portable, but much less showy.
This special boxed set is to hide the fact that you originally read ASoIaF in cheap paperback form. If you listened to the audiobooks, this will prove you are not just another statistic in a post-literate society.
A Dance with Dragons Wins Best Fantasy 2011 at GoodReads
It’s no surprise that A Dance with Dragons won Best Fantasy of 2011 over at GoodReads.com for their annual Goodreads Choice Awards. Another win for author George R. R. Martin!
What is a surprise is that it didn’t win Favorite Book of 2011! However, I’ve heard that the winner, Divergent by Veronica Roth, is an excellent book – the first of a series. It won over Dance by just a few thousand votes.
2011 Holiday Gifts Roundup: Direwolf Diorama
Nothing says “I Love You” like an effing dead direwolf diorama! Celebrate the season with this hand-crafted miniature.
This incredibly cool but also disturbing Direwolf Diorama from Dark Sword Miniatures depicts that memorable scene in George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones where Jon Snow finds the 6 direwolf pups near the remains of their dead mother. The Masterworks line features characters and scenes from GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Sculpted by Dave Summers, each miniature is cast in pewter and sold unpainted. It is up to you, the collector, to paint to fit your own flight of fancy. The images of the painted versions on the website feature the work of artist Matt Verzani.
You can buy the Direwolf miniature from the GRRM section of the Dark Sword Miniatures website.
2011 Holiday Gifts Roundup: Longclaw
You, too, can brandish Jon Snow’s Longclaw this holiday season!
For those of you not afraid to cut off your own heads (or maybe you’re hoping someone else will), here’s the perfect gift! Valyrian Steel offers officially licensed limited replicas of swords and warhammers and other steely goodness from GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire. You get a Certificate of Authenticity signed by The Man Himself! Happy Holidays! Watch your fingers!
Longclaw is not to be confused with Longcat, who iz looooong.
2011 Holiday Gifts Roundup: GRRM Calendar!
This being the first day of December, I’d like to start off the holiday season by showcasing some products throughout the month that would make gifts for fans of George R. R. Martin and the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Even if it’s a present to yourself, you greedy bastards, there’s nothing wrong with supporting The Man Himself and HBO for providing us with quality entertainment, both in print and on screen. So pull out your wallets or your electronic funds or whatever kids today use for money and buy something.
Let’s kick the off the holiday spending with something that won’t be useful until next year!
Have a look at the A Song of Ice and Fire 2012 Calendar, available at Amazon. This large-sized 11.9in x 11.8in calendar is drawn and colored by renowned artist John Picacio, made famous from his works in the fantasy and science fiction genres. He has illustrated the cover of many a beloved tome. Winner of a Locus Award, three Chesley Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards.
The 2012 calendar features 12 months of Starks, Lannisters, bastards and royal families, as well as memorable scenes from the book series. A perfect gift for ASoIaF or Game of Thrones fans!
Still alive, not finished yet!
Not even half-way through A Dance with Dragons.
Or should I say
*minor spoiler*
A Dance with Impostors?
Curiouser and curiouser. So bloody good!
Peter Dinklage Annotated Timeline
Since I haven’t posted in several many days, and being that I just got A Dance with Dragons with which I’ll be MIA for just as long, I thought a quick mention of the latest chart I put together on the Peter Dinklage Popularity page would suffice for a blog post.
Maybe not; history will be the judge.
I’ve been playing around with Google Docs and spreadsheets and whatnot for a good many years and love the flexibility of it. The execution of doing what you want is still somewhat limited, especially exporting. Anyways, I really love the Annotated Timeline format and thought the best use for it EVER would be to make a Peter Dinklage “Timeline of Tweets” and other social media mentions. So I did, and I can now share it with world, thanks to some Google Gadgets. More info on the Popularity Page, but basically this maps out the twitter, facebook, flicker, photobucket and a ton of other “social” sites that have people talking about Peter Dinklage.
So as I keep tabs on that busy Mr. Dinklage, I can keep you all up to date as well. It’s pretty much the best thing ever on the list of best things ever. Cross your fingers that it keeps working, because I have no idea how to fix it if it blows up.
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A Song of Ice and Fire Recap: For the Readers
Well, now that Game of Thrones is all over for the next 9 or 10 months, you may be thinking that life is dull and without meaning. Fear not, at least for book readers! The new book A Dance with Dragons comes out July 12.
Game of Thrones TV show fans who haven’t read the series really should use this time to read the books. There is so much back history to the world that George R R Martin has created, you really are missing out on some most-excellent story-telling. And you are certainly free from the looong wait times that have plagued this series. Not that we’re completely free of such misfortune in the future. Hopefully not six years, though – right? RIGHT?
Current A Song of Ice and Fire readers may want to freshen their knowledge, so I have compiled some links to articles recapping what’s happened in Westeros and Essos. So why not go all in and read from the very beginning, the Dawn of Days? The Wertzone blog has done such a thing, and Adam Whitehead has put together a pretty concise timeline of events in GRRM’s world.
Part One: Ancient History documents from the Dawn of Days starting twelve thousand years before the current storyline of ASoIaF up to the formation of the Seven Kingdoms (there were actually 8 at that time). This includes the presence of the Children of the Forest, the events of The Long Night and subsequent War for the Dawn, the Andal Invasion, the Flight of the Rhoynar and the rise and fall of Valyria.
A Dance with Dragons Early Release due to Amazon Snafu
If you haven’t heard this one, get ready to abandon the internets for a while, or at least until you’ve read your copy of A Dance with Dragons!
Amazon Germany, due to a glitch of some sort, released about 180 copies of A Dance with Dragons (people in the know just call it Dance) early. This is pretty upsetting to the publishers to be certain, but the ramifications are not lost on fans who are being spoiled by douchebags blabbing all over forums and social influencers. Some spoilers are also false, much to the trolls’ delight and forum moderators’ dismay – they’re the ones who have to slog through all the muck and tidy things up for us.
Other merchandisers have also released the book ahead of time, so the number is likely to grow, and the effects of this “leak” may snowball. No one is safe, pandemonium has been unleashed, so it’s highly advisable to unplug your internets.
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