Martin, George R. R

Six separate factions vie for control of the realm of the late Lord Eddard Stark, while an ancient form of magic, an everlasting winter, and an unearthly army threaten to return.

Twenty-eight young people with superhuman powers sign on to be contestants on the reality television show "American Hero" which pits them against one another in a series of tasks and stunts, but as the weeks go by and the show nears its conclusion, horrifying events in the Middle East prompt some of them to leave the show and attempt to become real heroes.

Ramon, a drifter who escaped the poverty of the Third World by joining an expedition to the distant planet of Sao Paulo, is forced to escape into the wilderness after he commits a high-profile murder, and stumbles upon a highly evolved alien race also trying to hide from the rest of the world.

Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the forces of good and evil prepare for trouble in the land of Winterfell where summers can last for decades and winters a lifetime.

Two young men fight each other to gain control of a land that isn't rightfully theirs and there is only one woman who can stop them, but first she must find a way back into the country that exiled her years before.

Lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, and all the forces of good and evil prepare for trouble in the land of Winterfell where summers can last for decades and winters a lifetime.

Survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters begin to gather their forces to grab their share of what is left of the Seven Kingdoms in the aftermath of the war of the Five Kings.

New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.