SPAIN: Mocedades Game of Thrones / World / Coinciding with the start of the rainy filming of ‘Game of Thrones’ in the old town Girona, the Spanish publisher of George RR Martin, Gigamesh announced yesterday by surprise the publication of three short novels unpublished in Castilian the popular science fiction author. The novelty is called ‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ and meets three stories: ‘The Knight Errant’ ‘The true sword’ and ‘The Knight’, which function as a prequel of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’.
The protagonists are his squire Dunk and Egg, and his travels in the West-the mythical land where Martin has placed much of the series ‘A Song of Ice and fuego’- are located some 90 years before the events narrated in’ Game of Thrones’.
to be seen whether the new material satisfies the appetite of the army of fans that Martin has in Spain, where his novels have become a real sales phenomenon that exploded in the wake of the television series US network HBO premiered in 2011 (just before the series, in Spain 300,000 copies of the popular saga sold).
A few years earlier, in 2002, the bookseller and publisher Alejo Cuervo, a great fan of fantasy and science fiction, acquired the publishing rights to ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ for around $ 5,000 probably not even imagine a day would make Martin millionaire. Writer fidelity to the Catalan New Jersey editor, a decade later, despite the overall success intact remains.
Halfway between heroic fantasy and the romance of chivalry, ‘The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ chronicles the adventures of Aegon V Improbable and Sir Duncan the Tall, two of the most beloved characters of the author . The book will be launched in the Gigamesh Fiction prologue and illustration collection cover Enrique Corominas. Furthermore, the publisher has prepared an illustrated edition will appear at Christmas.
Each new related to George RR Martin is received with great anticipation for its millions of fans. Last August, the writer confessed Bubonicon a science fiction convention held annually in Albuquerque, be working on the last book of ‘Game of Thrones’. The sixth novel in the series, ‘Winter Winds’, has not yet issued: Martin continues to work on it even though the rate of emission of the series has reached and the chapters in April 2016 premiere trample territory unknown by Martin himself and his readers.
And how will the end of the saga? The author himself has admitted on more than one occasion that will be “bittersweet” and have plenty of ‘The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, one of his biggest influences.
The TV series is filmed these days in Girona has become one of the great successes of HBO. Last season was watched by an average of 20 million viewers per episode, which has led the chain to announce that the series could be up to eight more seasons and that does not rule out shooting the prequel, the adventures of Dunk and his squire Egg . They have just landed in Spanish bookstores.
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