书名：Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones火与血：冰与火之歌前传

作者：George R. R. Martin

出版社名称：Bantam

出版时间：2018

语种：英文

ISBN：9781524796280

商品尺寸：16.2 x 4.8 x 24.2 cm

包装：精装

页数：736（以实物为准）

《权力的游戏》是美国HBO电视网制作推出的一部中世纪史诗奇幻题材的电视剧，改编自美国作家乔治·马丁的奇幻小说《冰与火之歌》系列。

现在，作者又推出了一部激动人心的大师之作、一部波澜壮阔的坦格利安家族史——Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones《火与血：冰与火之歌前传》。这部书一共2卷，讲述坦格利安家族在维斯特洛的故事。 本书是讲述正传300年前的事件的历史书，主角是坦格利安家族，主体将围绕那场几乎使家族覆灭的坦格利安内战，并配有由艺术家道格·惠特利特别绘制的70多张全新黑白插画。 这块大陆的历史充满流血争斗，却也令人着迷！ The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones.With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros. 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 all-new 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 ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.

在《权力的游戏》之前几个世纪，坦格利安家族作为在瓦雷利亚天灾中存活下来的龙王家族，在龙石岛定居下来。Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones《火与血：冰与火之歌前传》的故事从传奇人物、铁王座的打造者——“征服者伊耿”开始，讲述了坦格利安家族的后代为了铁王座进行的明争暗夺，内斗甚至升级成内战，几乎导致了整个王朝的覆灭。

“血龙狂舞”期间究竟发生了什么？为什么瓦雷利亚在大灾变过后变成了致命的不毛之地？丹妮莉丝的三颗龙蛋究竟源于哪里？这本前传书籍回答的远远不止这几个问题……

乔治·雷蒙德·理查德·马丁（George Raymond Richard Martin），欧美奇幻小说大师。1948年9月20日出生于美国新泽西州的贝约恩。马丁的作品主要以人物为关注点，描写细腻丰富，突破了幻想文学界固有的创作模式；其代表作有十大浪漫太空歌剧之一的《光逝》、由雨果奖获奖名篇扩展而成的《风港》、在杂志读者群中深受爱戴的《图夫航行记》，以及当代正统奇幻的第1经典《冰与火之歌》等。由于马丁的辉煌成就，他被誉为美国的托尔金和新世纪的海明威。

在非官方的不记名奇幻作品投票中，《冰与火之歌》俨然已经可以和《魔戒》平起平坐，作者网站的访问量也是和斯蒂芬·金、J.K.罗琳等不相上下，其受欢迎的程度可见一斑。他的读者群早已远远不止奇幻科幻爱好者的范围，而是受到更为广泛的关注。其中权力的游戏已在HBO播出。乔治·马丁被时代杂志评选为影响世界的100人之一。 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.

Themasters of the Citadel who keep the historiesofWesteros have used Aegon’s Conquest as their touchstone for the past three hundred cars. Births, deaths, battles, and other events arc dated either AC (After the Conquest) or BC (Before the Conquest).

True scholars know that such dating is fir from precise. Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of the Seven Kingdoms did nor rake place in a single day More than two years passed between Aegon’s landing and his Old-town coronation… and even then the Conquest remained incomplete, sinceDorne remainedunsubdued. Sporadic attempts to bring the Dornishmen into the realm continued all through King Aegon’s reign and well into the reigns of his sons, making it impossible to fix a precise end date for the Wars of Conquest. Even the start date is a matter of some misconception. Many assume, wrongly, that the reign of King Aegon I Targaryen began on the day he landed at the mouth of the Blackwater Rush, beneath the three hills where the city of King’s Landing would eventually stand. Not so. The day of Aegon’s Landing as celebrated by the king and his descendants, but the Conqueror actually dated the start of his reign from the dayhe was crowned and anointed in the Starry Sept of Oldtown by the High Septon of the Faith. This coronation took place two years after Aegons Landing, well after all three of the major battles of the Vars of Conquest had been fought and won. Thus it can be seen that most of Aegon’s actual conquering took place from 2-1 BC, Before the Conquest. The Targaryenswere of pure Valyrian blood, dragonlords of ancient lineage. Twelve years before the Doom ofValyria (114 BC), Aenar Targaryen sold his holdings in the Freehold and the Lands of the Long Sum- flier, and moved with all his wives, wealth, slaves, dragons, siblings, kin, and children toDragonstone, a bleak island citadel beneath a smoking mountain in the narrow sea. At its apex Valyria was the greatest city in the known world, the center of civilization.Within its shining walls, twoscore rival houses vied for power and glory in court and council, rising and falling in an endless, subtle, oft savage struggle for dominance. The Targaryens were far from the most powerful of the dragonlords, and their rivals saw theirflight to Dragonstone as an act of surrender, as cowardice. But Lord Aenar’s maiden daughter Daenys, knownforever afterward as Daenys the Dreamer, had foreseen the destruction of Valyria by fire. And when the Doom cametwelve years later, the Targaryens were the only dragonlords to survive.