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- Author
- George R. R. Martin
- First published
- 2000
- Editions
- 57
- Subjects
- New York Times bestseller, nyt:mass_market_paperback=2011-06-04, Seven Kingdoms (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9
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Key facts
- Author
- George R. R. Martin
- Audio read by
- Roy Dotrice
- Cover artist
- Stephen Youll
- Language
- English
- Series
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- Genre
- Fantasy
- Published
- August 8, 2000 ( Voyager Books /UK) & November 2000 ( Bantam Spectra /US)
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Article
A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in the high fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2000, with a United States edition following in November 2000. 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.
At its publication, A Storm of Swords was the longest novel in the series. It was so long that in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Serbia, and Israel, 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). The same division was used in the Polish and Greek editions. In France, the decision was made to cut the novel into four separate volumes.