Even American author, George RR Martin, would never have envisaged how popular his fantasy series titled ‘A Game of Thrones’ would become as people thronged to read the first book, 'A Song of Fire and Ice', and its sequels. The television series put faces to the characters created by the author, further adding on to his éclat. However, readers savoured the books which satisfied their thirst for details and gave them more information than the TV series could ever do.