(urth) The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire

[Jeff Wilson]

On 8/1/2012 4:04 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> Watching the series, I keep mentally trying to place the technology at
> around 1200 to 1400 AD. But then I remember that the Wall has been there
> for 8000 years, yet the Starks never invaded the Holy Land to learn the
> proper arts of siege warfare from the Arabs. So I just have to make
> myself stop analyzing it.

That's probably the best way you can go about it, given GRRM's statement 
quoted in my other post. The character detail is realistic, the setting 
detail is subject to benign neglect.


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Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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