A new video by TED-Ed, the education initiative of the ideas-driven nonprofit, situates the story of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones in its proper historical frame. George RR Martin, the author Game of Thrones, the iconic HBO series, has been over for a while, but George R.R. Martin’s book series that started it all still feels like it’ll never be completed. A Song of Ice and Fire A tour in the US to mark publication of the novel, A Game of Thrones, saw “modest” turnouts of readers, admits its author George RR Martin. At one stop-off, in St Louis, that number fell to zero. AJGq.