A Song of Ice and Fire is one of the most influential fantasy series of all time, but George R.R. Martin wrote several novels prior to A Game of Thrones — and there's one he believed would be his big break instead of the 1996 book. Martin has had an impressive career in both publishing and TV writing, and he's gone back and forth between the two over the years.

He talked about this during the "Spotlight on George R.R. Martin" panel at New York Comic-Con, which Screen Rant was in attendance for. And on the subject of his early writing, Martin admitted his third novel didn't catapult his career in the way he'd hoped . Martin's first full-length novel was 1977's sci-fi Western, Dying of the Light , and his second was the vampire story Fevre Dream .

The author explained that

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