George RR Martin Talks Game Of Thrones Winds of Winter

A Cold Wind Blows Through Westeros

♦ For everyone missing Game of Thrones, since it won’t be back until later next year, here’s a lengthy video chat with George RR Martin on the next book, Winds of Winter, which took place earlier this summer…

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), often referred to as George R. R. Martin, is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–present). Martin serves as the series’s co-executive producer, and also scripted four episodes of the series.

In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin “the American Tolkien”, and in 2011, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.