A Song of Ice and Fire is a work.
A Song of Ice and Fire . He began the first volume of the series , A Game of Thrones , in 1991 and had it published in 1996 . A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos . 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 fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents .