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 . 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 . 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 .