NovelContemporary · 1996Study guide · no full textSteady

A Game of Thrones

Martin's innovation is consequence: no character is protected by their role in the story. Read the first book for how quickly loyalty becomes a currency.

Power Family War Justice

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Power — how other works handle it →Justice — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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