An Unreliable World: History and Timekeeping in Westeros

Last year I contributed to the book Beyond the Wall, a collection of commentaries and essays on A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation. My essay is this week's 'Free Essay' over at Smart Pop Books, so it can be perused for free right now.

The essay discusses the often-dubious measures of time given in the series and how the ancient backstory of the books is fluid and unreliable as a result.

BEYOND THE WALL now on sale

Beyond the Wall, the Song of Ice and Fire essay anthology I have contributed to, is now on sale in some bookshops (though the official release date is not until next week, I believe). Forbidden Planet in London had several copies on sale yesterday, so I imagine that other copies will be out there in the wild.