George RR Martin, creator of “Game of Thrones” world, has published a new work. Unfortunately not what his fans wait – why some take the “useless bullshit” quite angry.

It goes with him to the Dragon to knight, to sex, to war. And for everything else. The books of author George RR Martin US-reach requirements in Harry Potter dimensions. Long the man hailed as “the new Tolkien”. The film adaptation of his epic, the TV-series “Game of Thrones” may be considered as the most popular fantasy series of the world.

Five volumes of the original book, “A Song of Ice and Fire” have so far appeared, seven are planned. The fans have been waiting for years and with increasing impatience to tape 6, “The Winds of Winter”. But George R. R. Martin, 66, takes its time. Now he has published a kind of prologue to his great saga: a work entitled “The World of Ice and Fire”, which will be released in March 2015 to German.

Martin therein become the historian of his own myths. In the style of a medieval world chronicle the book documents the stories of the people, cities and rulers of the fictional continent of Westeros – from the dawn of time to the point at which employs the novel series.

We learn how the first people Westeros entered. When and why the great ice wall was built. How the royal family of the Targaryen gained power and lost again. It tells everything from a scholar named Maester Yandel who shall collect the often unreliable and contradictory sources which he finds in the great library of the city of Oldtown.

Thick and heavy is this history, 300 pages long, lush illustrated and bound in a leather imitation. It is a book for geeks, co-authored by two super-freaks, Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson. The two have for many years the largest “Ice and Fire” fan forum.

Many fans of the actual Fantasy series, however, have taken the compendium with indignation or anger. You would like to read the next “Ice and Fire” band, but merely “a book with useless bullshit that does not advance the plot,” as one reviewer of books on Goodreads Drools platform.

The relationship between the author and his followers is complicated. It is not the first time that George RR Martin is tackled hard by his fans. What bizarre proportions that can accept, we show in this Storify.

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