Thanks to our friends at La Garde de Nuit, we’ve learned that GRRM’s French publishers, J’ai Lu, are republishing the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series in integral paperback editions. The French standard up to now has been to split each book into three volumes, so these new integral editions should be welcome to French readers. Besides standardizing the novels into single volumes, they come equipped with brand-new cover art by artist Marc Simonetti, who has provided art for Fantasy Flight Games in the past.
Simonetti has shared the covers for the first two books, which will be published at the same time in January 2010, as well as the cover for the third at his Deviant Art page in a gallery with his other “A Song of Ice and Fire” pieces for Fantasy Flight Games. The integral edition of A Storm of Swords is set for a June release, and the integral edition of A Feast for Crows is set for a September release.
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Slightly confused. The picture of the Wall is the new cover of GoT and the one of Tyrion in KL is the new cover of CoK, I’m guessing, but the ‘looking for Stark children’ picture seems to be a cover for the existing three-volume edition of AGoT (and it says the third book of AGoT and depicts Theon looking for Bran and Rickon, presumably when he saves them from the wildlings). But oddly it appears to be newer than the other two pictures. Or is it just the cover for ASoS and the images are not necessarily tracking with the events of the books?
The first link also appears to not be working.
The confusion comes from the fact that in France, the saga is titled “Le Trône de Fer” (A Game of Thrones translation), and not “A Song of ice and fire”, so, the third book of AGoT means in fact “the third book of ASOIAF”, so it’s just the cover for ASoS.
The first link was not working because the blog was updating. Now it works ^^
Hello.
The Covers were first published here : http://www.fantasy.fr/articles/view/11714/le-trone-de-fer-revient-en-semi-poche-chez-j-ai-lu
It will be gentle to put the link in your news.
Best regards.
Emmanuel