title: A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
author:  George R. R. Martin 
description: "The major fantasy of the decade . . . compulsively readable."<i>Denver Post</i><br /><br />"We have been invited to a grand feast and pageant: George R.R. Martin has unveiled for us an intensely realized, romantic but realistic world."<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br /><br />"A Best Book of 1996: Martin makes a triumphant return to high fantasy . . . [with] superbly developed characters, accomplished prose, and sheer bloodymindedness."<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review<br /><br />"A splendid saga . . . . Inventive and intricately plotted."<i>BookPage</i><br /><br /> "Magic . . . George R.R.Martin's first fantasy epic [is set] well above the norms of the genre."<i>Locus</i><br /><br />"Such a splendid tale and such a fantasticorical! I read my eyes out and couldn't stop 'til I finished and it was dawn."Anne McCaffrey<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>
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  ## Preface
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Savage Honeymoon**  
  
  
  Posted originally on the [Archive of Our Own](http://archiveofourown.org/) at
  <http://archiveofourown.org/works/14929364>.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rating:
  
  
      [Explicit](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Explicit)
  
  
  Archive Warning:
  
  
      [No Archive Warnings Apply](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/No%20Archive%20Warnings%20Apply)
  
  
  Category:
  
  
      [F/M](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/F*s*M)
  
  
  Fandom:
  
  
      [Game of Thrones (TV)](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Game%20of%20Thrones%20\(TV\)), [A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/A%20Song%20of%20Ice%20and%20Fire%20-%20George%20R*d*%20R*d*%20Martin)
  
  
  Relationship:
  
  
      [Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Jon%20Snow*s*Daenerys%20Targaryen)
  
  
  Character:
  
  
      [Jon Snow | Aegon Targaryen](http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Jon%20Snow%20%7C%20Aegon%20Targaryen), [Daenerys Targaryen](http://archiveofourown.org/