Photo-Illustration: Vulture Spoilers for Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and The Last King of Osten Ard below. Eight years before George R.R. Martin published Game of Thrones , Tad Williams released The Dragonbone Chair , the first installment in what would become a highly influential fantasy series called Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn . In 1989, when The Dragonbone Chair came out, the genre was not quite the juggernaut it is now; Dungeons & Dragons was the subject of fundamentalist panic, and “romantasy”

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