A Song of Ice and Fire is a work.
A Song of Ice and Fire . The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine , in the first novel , to thirty-one by the fifth . The fourth and fifth volumes reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller lists upon their releases . The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents .