Praise for George R. R. Martin and A Song of Ice and Fire
 
"The only fantasy series I’d put on a level with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings... It’s a fantasy series for hip, smart people, even those who don’t read fantasy."-Chicago Tribune
 
"Martin amply fulfills the first volume’s promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written."-The Denver Post, on A Clash of Kings
 
"Martin has produced-is producing, since the series isn’t over-the great fantasy epic of our era. It’s an epic for a more profane, more jaded, more ambivalent age than the one Tolkien lived in."-Lev Grossman, Time
 
"Addictive... George R. R. Martin has created the unlikely genre of the realpolitik fantasy novel."-Rolling Stone, on A Feast for Crows
 
"Epic fantasy as it should be written: passionate, compelling, convincingly detailed and thoroughly imagined."-The Washington Post, on A Dance with Dragons
 
"I always expect the best from George R. R. Martin, and he always delivers."-Robert Jordan