{"id":12584,"date":"2011-07-27T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12584"},"modified":"2011-07-26T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:30:14","slug":"while-we-wait-for-george-r-r-martin-to-continue-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/while-we-wait-for-george-r-r-martin-to-continue-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"While we wait for George R.R. Martin to continue writing…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After a six year wait, George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons<\/a><\/strong><\/em> was finally released earlier this month.\u00a0 Knowing the pace at which Mr. Martin tends to write, we’re in for a long wait until the sixth installment in this epic fantasy series is published.\u00a0 While you’re waiting, here are some other\u00a0series you might be interested in:<\/p>\n

Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time<\/em> is the first series that is always suggested to me when I’m looking for A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> read-alikes.\u00a0 Starting with the first book, called The Eye of the World<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, the story involves magic, an epic quest, battles, and adventure.<\/p>\n

Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy<\/em>, starting with Assassin’s Apprentice<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong>is a medieval political saga much like A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, and it even includes an illegitimate son character a la Jon Snow.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gregory Keyes’ new series, Kingdom of Thorn and Bone<\/em>, starts with The Briar King<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Like A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, it also has multiple character viewpoints and\u00a0struggles for the throne.<\/p>\n

And if you’re up for something a little less gritty but still tells an epic fantasy tale with fantastic world building, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings<\/em> series is always enjoyable no matter how many times you’ve read it.\u00a0 If you’ve never read them before, start with The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, then The Two Towers<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (my personal favorite), and finally The Return of the King<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It’s next on my re-read list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a six year wait, George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons was finally released earlier this month.\u00a0 Knowing the pace at which Mr. Martin tends to write, we’re in for a long wait until the sixth installment in this epic fantasy series is published.\u00a0 While you’re waiting, here are[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,1],"tags":[1686,742,774],"class_list":["post-12584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","tag-family-sagas","tag-fantasy","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3gY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions\/12612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}