Jaime spends most of his time insulting Brienne, despite her great size and strength with a sword. They are pursued by Tully bannermen, but evade them. Brienne is to take Jaime back to King's Landing and ensure that Sansa and Arya Stark are returned in his place. UK hardcover edition of A Storm of Swordsīrienne of Tarth escorts Jaime Lannister from Riverrun by boat, Jaime having been released at Catelyn's order. This list is derived from the votes of Internet Book List registered users. The novel has been placed as the number 1 rated book at the Internet Book List since a revision of the rating system in October 2005.

This edition, fully illustrated by Charles Vess, was released in the summer of 2006.Ī Storm of Swords is also the name of the second expansion to the board game A Game of Thrones, released in July 2006. However, lengthy delays on the release of A Clash of Kings caused Meisha Merlin to lose the printing rights for the book, which were picked up by Subterranean Press instead. Meisha Merlin, who had previously issued limited, illustrated editions of both A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings, were planning to release a similar version for A Storm of Swords in two volumes. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Significantly, it was the first novel in the series to be nominated for the Hugo Award, one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy publishing, although it lost to J. In France, the decision was made to cut the novel into four separate editions.Ī Storm of Swords won the 2001 Locus Award and 2002 Geffen Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It was so long that in the UK its paperback edition was split in half, Part 1 being published as Steel and Snow in June 2001 (with the one-volume cover) and Part 2 as Blood and Gold in August 2001 (with a specially-commissioned new cover).

To date, A Storm of Swords is the longest novel in the series.

Its publication was preceded by a novella called Path of the Dragon, which collects some of the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel into a single book. It was first published on Augin the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following in November 2000. As noted in the main text, UK Paperback editions separate the book into Steel and Snow (ISBN 0006479901) and Blood and Gold (ISBN 0007119550).Ī Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy series by American author George R. 973 (US Hardback), 976 (UK Hardback), 1216 (US Paperback)

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