Īddressing comparisons of The World of Ice & Fire to J. Parts of the removed material appeared in Gardner Dozois's anthologies Dangerous Women (as The Princess and the Queen), Rogues (as The Rogue Prince) and The Book of Swords (as The Sons of the Dragon). As this did not fit the original concept of a fully illustrated book-the number of illustrations remaining the same-Martin removed his sidebar stories, and the rest was abridged by García and Antonsson. Martin also started writing "sidebar" stories for the book but at one point he realized he had written 350,000 more words. The book's planned length was 50,000 words, but historical references collected by García and Antonsson from the books amounted to 70,000, and after Martin "polished it, expanded it and fill in the holes" it became 100,000 words. García is a Martin "superfan" whom the author and HBO have consulted on details previously established by Martin in the series. Martin enlisted them in 2006 to assist with the project, which at the time he believed would be finished by 2008.
Elio García and Linda Antonsson head the A Song of Ice and Fire fansite.
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