A Song of Ice and Fire

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Treebeard:
Gasp! Be still my beating heart! Can it be that winter is coming?

Well... yes, as a matter of fact, winter IS coming. Dominions needs Dire Wolves... they were so cute and cuddly-sounding!

[UNIVAC]

Originally posted by Treebeard:
Gasp! Be still my beating heart! Can it be that winter is coming?

Valar morghulis

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Dominions needs Dire Wolves... they were so cute and cuddly-sounding!

...but there was only one direwolf for each child, not hordes of them

[Norfleet]

Wolves? Dominions II needs penguins. Penguins....of DOOM. Swarms of enraged, berserker penguins, swarming across the frozen fields to peck their enemies to death.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Wolves? Dominions II needs penguins. Penguins....of DOOM. Swarms of enraged, berserker penguins, swarming across the frozen fields to peck their enemies to death.

Awwww... go play Age of Wonders

[Sindai]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I thought it was pretty good. But I have not bought the sequel... it (the first one) has a big, epic scope, but he makes his characters suffer a lot.

The word you use to make that sound cool is "gritty."

GRRM certainly has that grittyness, in spades. Things certainly don't get any nicer in the next couple of books, believe you me.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Sindai:
Things certainly don't get any nicer in the next couple of books, believe you me.

Nice understatement ...

[alexti]

George R.R. Martin is the only one fantasy writers I know in whose books the future is unpredictable His other books, for example Windhaven and Fever Dream are very good too. And some old short story (Sandkings?) is almost a scenario for some strategy game (Warlords?) :-)

But does anybody know another author of similar quality?