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A New Secret About GRRM’s Original Game of Thrones Story Has Been Revealed
In 2015, a letter containing George R.R. Martin’s original 1993 pitch to his publisher for his A Song of Ice and Fire series leaked on the internet. Well, most of it — there was one paragraph at the end that had been redacted with black marker, followed by the words, “But that’s the second book…”…
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Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength
This Sunday marks 10 years since Game of Thrones changed the television landscape as we know it — kickstarting a decade of imitators, influencing the way genre stories were told as prestige drama, and, for most of that decade, expanding itself into a pop-cultural behemoth. Revisiting its first season is like stepping into a strange…