Facts about George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

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   Martin's sprawling saga is set in a fictional world featuring the continent of Westeros, governed by noble houses competing for control of the Iron Throne.

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   Five of the planned seven novels in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire have been published, with The Winds of Winter still awaited.

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   George R.R. Martin drew heavily on the Wars of the Roses, the 15th-century English civil conflict, as a historical inspiration for A Song of Ice and Fire.

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   A Song of Ice and Fire served as the basis for the HBO television series Game of Thrones, which premiered in 2011.

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   The series began with A Game of Thrones, published in 1996, and is planned to conclude with a seventh novel titled A Dream of Spring.

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