When your books regard a fireproof teenage princess , an undying royal erotic love child , and a C - sometime witch who can glamour herself as an attractive unseasoned cleaning woman , an United States Army ofunkillable ice zombiesis hardly the weirdest thing you ’ve ever come up up with .
ButGeorge RR Martin — creator of theA Song of Ice and Firebook series , which became the base for HBO’sGame of Thrones — didn’t get so caught up in his world - building that he forgot to include some symbolisation . specially when it come to the aforementioned ice zombie , the White Walkers .
In an consultation withThe New York Timesto upgrade his new bookFire and roue , Martin reassert what many fans had already believed about these puppet .
" It ’s kind of ironic , " Martin said . " Because I started writingGame of Thronesall the agency back in 1991 , long before anybody was babble about climate modification . " Indeed , the seemingly unstoppable elementary forces that descend from the north to add nature ’s wrath on the people of Westeros are analogue for equally dangerous mood variety .
" The people in Westeros arefightingtheir case-by-case battles over power and condition and riches , " Martin said . " And those are so distracting them that they ’re ignoring the threat of ‘ winter is coming , ’ which has the potential to destroy all of them and to demolish their world . And there is a capital parallel there too , I think , what I see this planet doing here , where we ’re fighting our own conflict . "
" We ’re press over issues , significant outlet , mind you — foreign policy , domesticated policy , civil rights , social responsibility , social DoJ , " Martin preserve . " All of these things are authoritative . But while we ’re tearing ourselves apart over this and spend so much energy , there exists thisthreat ofclimate change , which , to my mind , is once and for all prove by most of the data and 99.9 percentage of the scientific biotic community .
" And it really has the potential to ruin our world , " Martin stay on . " And we ’re ignoring that while we worry about the next election and issues that masses are interested about , like jobs . job are a very important takings , of course of action . All of these thing are crucial issues . But none of them are important if , like , we ’re all in and our cities are under the ocean , " he concluded .
