Anytime actuality hits, I find myself looking at fantasy for little comfort - not really a matter of getting away from it, but as a means of wanting ease to carry the current troubles life has tossed my way.

To me, fantasy has got components of facts that somehow, drives the tired and the weary to collect everything that remains of his strength to once more face life’s truths. This method of illumination is the main goal of fantasy books: for readers to find inspiration from them, and not simply their entertainment value.

Most of the best fantasy books were written, published and have earned an increasing reputation amongst today’s readers. One of the many extremely famous ones will be the novel written by George R. R. Martin entitled “A Game of Thrones”.

This fantasy book got released the first time in 1996 as the leading book in the collection series of epic books known as “A Song of Ice and Fire”. This year, the New York Times placed A Game of Thrones in the number one location of best-selling books.

In only a matter of fifteen years, A Game of Thrones books have been vastly distributed worldwide, achieving record-breaking popularity. Because of its wonderful international impact, it is often viewed by a significant number of reviewers and readers as “the best of the best” of epic fantasy books.

During the 1st year of its publication, A Game of Thrones has already acquired three literature award nominations and won one of them. Its topics and stories have also influenced a variety of games played in trading card, role-playing and board games. Also this current year, A Game of Thrones has become an HBO fantasy movie series. Because of this fascinating attainment of fantasy and science fiction author George R. R. Martin, he was consequently renowned by Time magazine as one of the “most influential people in the world” comprising the “2011 Time 100″ list of modern day well-known personalities.

One very exclusive writing style of Martin that actually pleased great numbers of readers is his very clear brutality with his main characters. While various other fantasy novel authors have the affectionate tendency to immortalize therefore over protect their protagonists, Martin makes them all mortally vulnerable to harm, even going to the finality of death.

However, in A Game of Thrones, he amusingly remolds some of his devious main personas into incredibly amazing protagonists which the interested reader would even love eventually. Using this special plot development, readers can usually get inspiration to pursue a life of brave transformation simply from reading the fantasy books.