Some thoughts on GRRM.

[aoanla]

As promised, now that I've finished all published volumes in George R R Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" sequence, here's some thoughts about that, and about other GRRM topics.

Comments

[moltare]

See also: I Bet Valyria Nuked Itself

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[aoanla]

Yes, or the quasi-magical equivalent... presumably something like the Colour Bombs in China Mieville's Bas Lag books?

(Oh, why must hubris always been met with destruction in this kind of novel?)

[mcmartin]

If it doesn't waste you, it wasn't hubris in the first place.

[aoanla]

That was a rhetorical question, McM.

In any case, hubris doesn't have to result in destruction; it's just a literary convention that it is so.