George RR Martin Talks New Book Fire And Blood And Producing Nnedi Okorafor HBO Series

Chatting To The Creator Of Westeros

♦ Our friends over at The Hollywood Reporter just chatted to Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin on the red carpet at the Emmys about his new book Fire and Blood and producing a new TV series for HBO based on books by Nnedi Okorafor. So here’s that chat…

George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; 20 September 1948), also known as GRRM, 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).

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.