Free Audiobook : Fire & Blood, By George R. R. Martin

In the epochs preceding the narrative of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the lone family of dragonlords to endure the Doom of Valyria, settled on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood embarks on their story with the illustrious Aegon the Conqueror, the founder of the Iron Throne, and proceeds to narrate the lineage of Targaryens who strived to maintain control over that emblematic seat, right up to the internal strife that nearly fragmented their dynasty.

What truly occurred during the Dance of the Dragons? Why was it perilous to venture to Valyria following the Doom? What were the most heinous acts of Maegor the Cruel? What was the state of Westeros when dragons were the rulers of the sky? These are merely a handful of the queries addressed in this crucial chronicle, as told by an erudite maester of the Citadel, accompanied by more than eighty novel black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley, inclusive of five exclusive to this edition. Readers have seen fragments of this narrative in works such as The World of Ice & Fire, but it is only now that the entire narrative of Targaryen history is disclosed.

With a scope and splendor akin to Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire & Blood is the initial volume of the definitive duology recounting the history of the Targaryens, affording readers a fresh perspective on the dynamic, frequently bloody, and ceaselessly captivating history of Westeros.