A Song of Ice and Fire is by someone.
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . The fifth and most recent volume of the series published in 2011 , A Dance with Dragons , took Martin five years to write . Daenerys Targaryen is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin 's A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels , as well as the television adaptation , Game of Thrones , where she is portrayed by Emilia Clarke .