Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, From A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Drago
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Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, From A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons
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COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
“Foreword: Stories for the Nights to Come” © 2012 by R.A. Salvatore
“The Palace of Love, the Palace of Sorrow” © 2012 by Linda Antonsson and Elio M. García, Jr.
“Men and Monsters” © 2012 by Alyssa Rosenberg
“Same Song in a Different Key” © 2012 by Daniel Abraham
“An Unreliable World” © 2012 by Adam Whitehead
“Back to the Egg” © 2012 by Gary Westfahl
“Art Imitates War” © 2012 by Myke Cole
“The Brutal Cost of Redemption in Westeros” © 2012 by Susan Vaught
“Of Direwolves and Gods” © 2012 by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
“A Sword Without a Hilt” © 2012 by Jesse Scoble
“Petyr Baelish and the Mask of Sanity” © 2012 by Matt Staggs. Portions of this essay appeared in substantially different form under the title “Petyr Baelish: Portrait of a Psychopath” at
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, July 7, 2011.
“A Different Kind of Other” © 2012 by Brent Hartinger
“Power and Feminism in Westeros” © 2012 by Caroline Spector
“Collecting Ice and Fire in the Age of Nook and Kindle” © 2012 by John Jos. Miller
“Beyond the Ghetto” © 2012 by Ned Vizzini
“Introduction: In Praise of Living History” and other materials © 2012 by James Lowder
Stories for the Nights to Come
R.A. SALVATORE
JAMES LOWDER
THE PALACE OF LOVE, THE PALACE OF SORROW
Romanticism in A Song of Ice and Fire
LINDA ANTONSSON AND ELIO M. GARCÍA, JR.
Rape, Myth-Making, and the Rise and Fall of Nations in A Song of Ice and Fire
ALYSSA ROSENBERG
Adapting
A Game of Thrones
as a Graphic Novel
DANIEL ABRAHAM
History and Timekeeping in Westeros
ADAM WHITEHEAD
The Prequels to A Song of Ice and Fire
GARY WESTFAHL
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in A Song of Ice and Fire
MYKE COLE
THE BRUTAL COST OF REDEMPTION IN WESTEROS
SUSAN VAUGHT
ANDREW ZIMMERMAN JONES
The Dangers of Magic in (and to) Westeros
JESSE SCOBLE
PETYR BAELISH AND THE MASK OF SANITY
MATT STAGGS
The Role of Freaks and Outcasts in A Song of Ice and Fire
BRENT HARTINGER