George Raymond Richard Martin, A Clash of Kings

Lars Johnson (Cornell University)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1998

Places

United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Fantasy

Resources

A Clash of Kings (1998) is the second volume in George R.R. Martin’s unfinished epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-present). Like its predecessor, critics responded positively to A Clash of Kings, and the novel won a Locus award and received a Nebula award nomination. A Clash of Kings is most famously adapted as the second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Set soon after the politically explosive events of A Game of Thrones (1996), A Clash of Kings chronicles the first chunk of the War of Five Kings in the fantastical neomedieval realm of Westeros. Following the untimely death of King Robert Baratheon and the ill-advised e…

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Citation: Johnson, Lars. "A Clash of Kings". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 July 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39019, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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