George RR Martin on Game of Thrones - Edinburgh international book festival
George RR Martin talks about how he wrote A Song of Ice and Fire, which led to the TV series Game of Thrones

source: The Guardian Books Podcast

Presented by Claire Armitstead and produced by Tim Maby

Tuesday 12 August 2014

The success of HBO's Game of Thrones has propelled George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series into the stratosphere. But as he tells an Edinburgh international book festival audience, he is first and foremost a novelist who traces a literary lineage through Tolkien and Sir Walter Scott. In a selection of key quotes from his session, he talks about structure, character, and creating a world that is both different and the same as our own.