A Clash of Kings
Novel by George R. R. MartinWikipedia
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Oct 19, 2026
AC WilsonHOST
The whole phenomenon starts in 1996 with A Game of Thrones.
AC WilsonHOST
Then just three years later, which is a totally standard respectable gap for a massive fantasy novel, we get A Clash of Kings in 1999.
speaker_12HOST
Very normal pacing.
AC WilsonHOST
Yeah.
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speaker_12HOST
absolutely.
speaker_12HOST
The money changes everything.
AC WilsonHOST
In 1996, he had to finish A Clash of Kings because he was a working writer who needed to pay his mortgage.
speaker_12HOST
He was a working class writer, essentially.
RobertHOST
Just as an aside, there were hints early on that Wyman Manderley had more layers than most people credited him with.
RobertHOST
Bran notes in A Clash of Kings that Lord Wyman dances gracefully despite his size, and also that he looks at him with less pity in his eyes than most other lords.
RobertHOST
But now we get this.
RobertHOST
Davos had obviously not been executed, but instead held prisoner, away from everyone else, in reasonable comfort, it has to be said.
ChloeHOST
[theme song] Hello, and welcome to Girls Gone Canon Reads A Song of Ice and Fire, episode 287, Tyrion VI in A Clash of Kings.
ChloeHOST
I'm one of your hosts, Chloe.
ElianaHOST
And I am another one of your hosts, Eliana.
ElianaHOST
You guys, we saved our discussions about sports for [laughs] all of you.
ElianaHOST
[laughs]
ChloeHOST
Yeah, just like in ASOIAF, the Eagles are down bad, right? They are down bad in A Clash of Kings due to Jon Arryn being dead.
ElianaHOST
Oh.
ElianaHOST
[laughs] I was like, what is-
speaker_0HOST
We need to pinpoint where the gardener first began to lose control of his incredibly propulsive pacing.
speaker_1HOST
And that requires us to step back to the middle of the pack, the third book on the sources ranking, which is the second book chronologically, A Clash of Kings.
speaker_0HOST
A Clash of Kings is a fascinating case study in narrative connective tissue.
speaker_0HOST
Book one ended with a massive paradigm shift.
speaker_0HOST
The king is dead, the honorable protagonist is dead, and the realm has fractured into chaos.
speaker_1HOST
Now, logic would dictate that if a massive continent-spanning civil war erupts, the pacing of the novel should accelerate into a breathless action-packed sprint.
speaker_1HOST
But the source points out something really counterintuitive.
speaker_1HOST
A Clash of Kings actually holds the very first symptoms of the pacing disease that would eventually paralyze the series.
speaker_0HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
So let's visualize what the readers of A Clash of Kings actually experienced on the page.
speaker_1HOST
Okay.
speaker_0HOST
In the novel, Tyrion's absolute master stroke involves this colossal iron chain forged in secret that is just lying submerged at the mouth of the river.
ChloeHOST
Hello, and welcome to Girls Gone Canon Reads, A Song of Ice and Fire, episode 286, Tyrion 5, and A Clash of Kings.
ChloeHOST
I'm one of your hosts, Chloe.
ElianaHOST
And I am another one of your hosts, Eliana.
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ElianaHOST
We're going to continue our journey through Tyrians.
ElianaHOST
He changes a lot, too, throughout his life.
ElianaHOST
But we're going to do Tyrian VI and A Clash of Kings.
ElianaHOST
Slowly making our way towards the Blackwater, which is very exciting.
ElianaHOST
Yeah.
CamHOST
Welcome back to Second Breakfast and our ongoing coverage of A Clash of Kings, bringing you the best thoughts, theories, and literary analysis this side of Winterfell.
MaggieHOST
In this episode of A Close Reading of Ice and Fire, we're discussing Jon chapter four and Bran chapter five.
MaggieHOST
Let's get into it.
MaggieHOST
but I didn't know we were already there.
MaggieHOST
That's really exciting.
CamHOST
And this is going to be volume 18 of our chapter by chapter every other week coverage of A Clash of Kings.
CamHOST
Today we'll be discussing Jon four and Bran five.
MaggieHOST
Yeah, last time we, we were with the girlies and now we're with the boys this week, so.
Daniel RomanHOST
You know, that dragon has three heads line seems to me to be confirmation that the Prince that was promised is more than one person.
Daniel RomanHOST
And I think that line, the Prince that was promised from ice and from fire, like, you know, there's a scene in the second book, a clash of Kings where Danny sees Ragar with his infant son, Egon.
Daniel RomanHOST
She sees a vision of him in the house of the undying.
Daniel RomanHOST
And he says, his is the song of ice and fire.
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Marq NettlesHOST
Oh, I'm trying to think.
Marq NettlesHOST
Watching.
Marq NettlesHOST
You know, we're in a little slump of watching things, but I have been doing a slow reread of A Clash of Kings.
Daniel RomanHOST
Nice.
LizHOST
The next possibility is Wyla.
LizHOST
There's a chapter in the first novel, A Game of Thrones, which included a conversation where Robert asks about John's mother.
LizHOST
Ned claims it was a woman named Wyla.
LizHOST
In the novel A Storm of Swords, Arya finds out more about this mysterious Wyla.
LizHOST
As a side note, A Storm of Swords is the novel that season three of the TV show was adapted from.
LizHOST
This chapter wasn't adapted in the TV show.
LizHOST
But basically, Beric Dondarrion, the guy who kept dying and got resurrected by Thoros of Myr, had a squire named Edric Dayne.
LizHOST
Edric Dayne is the heir to Starfall and the nephew of Ser Arthur Dayne, formerly of the Kingsguard during the Mad King's reign.
Greg JohnsonGUEST
I just thought of the third one.
Greg JohnsonGUEST
Is it Clash of Kings?
Adam SpiessHOST
Clash of Kings is a novel in the series, but not this novel.
Adam SpiessHOST
I think that's the second one.
Adam SpiessHOST
And then the third one is A Storm of Swords.
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