He wrote that because HBO owns the TV rights to the setting of Westeros (if not to the characters of the novellas), it would be preferable to have HBO adopt the novellas also. įilm or TV adaptations of the novellas are being discussed, according to Martin in 2014. The first of these, comprising the first three novellas, was published – with illustrations by Gary Gianni – in October 2015, and in unillustrated translations earlier.
The unfinished series of novellas is to continue to be published in a series of collections entitled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The novellas were published in short story anthologies: The stories have no direct connection to the plot of A Song of Ice and Fire, although both characters are mentioned in A Storm of Swords and A Feast For Crows, respectively. These novellas are known as the Tales of Dunk and Egg after the main protagonists, Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire 'Egg', the later King Aegon V Targaryen. Martin wrote three separate novellas set ninety years before the events of the novels.
