![]() Isabella is Queen of England, seething over her husband’s infidelities. Not so much that one is a rip off of the other, just enough that the discerning reader can see germs of ideas from historical events bringing forth creative fruit in Westeros. This is the case here: there are numerous similarities in the historical events of the Iron King and the Game of Thrones narrative. I hear you ask: How could this story have inspired GRRM? I’ve noticed many times that excellent science fiction and fantasy novels often borrow inspiration from either mythology or ancient history. Maurice Druon wrote a series of historical novels starting with the Iron King, whose king was Philip king of France in 1314. Martin book! I didn’t even request it! Oh, hang on… it’s not GRRM… I examined it for a number of minutes in to figure out WTF was going on. ![]() When I received this book, my heart leapt! Another George R.R. ![]() My advanced reader copy didn’t have the above text on the cover, it looked more like this (sorry for poor scanner image): The Iron King by Maurice Druon is the first of seven historical novels first published in the 1950s. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |