This was published in Asimov's Science Fiction in July 1996. In the American market, the chapters featuring Daenerys Targaryen were extracted from A Game of Thrones and turned into a stand-alone novella called Blood of the Dragon. Epic fantasy was big business at the time and an established, respected SF author of many years standing dipping his toe into the genre was seen by both publishers as a good marketing opportunity.
Note in the blurb that A Dance with Dragons is still envisaged as the second (!) book in the series.įor A Game of Thrones, both the US and UK publishers chose similar release strategies. Published in Asimov's in July 1996, it won the series a Hugo Award in 1997.
Blood of the Dragon, a self-contained novella consisting of all of the Daenerys chapters from A Game of Thrones.
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