In frustrating-but-in-a-different way news, Martin also spoke up at Edinburgh about how his teachers tried to get him to stop reading sci-fi on the grounds that it’s not ~~serious~~ enough: You’re seeing me from your viewpoint, you’re not seeing what someone over here is seeing,” he explains. “Frankly, it is the way I prefer to write fiction because that is the way all of us experience life.
So why keep the frisky business to the straight and narrow? It’s the old I’d-do-it-if-it-were-relevant-to-the-plot chestnut: Martin writes using “viewpoint” characters, and none of the viewpoint characters are established as having same-sex attraction. Martin hints, very heavily in some cases, that certain characters are gay (Loras and Renly) or bisexual (Oberyn Martell), but it’s never outright stated, “Loras and Renly. Martin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival: Why is there no gay sex in A Song of Ice and Fire?įor some context, if you need context for Martin being asked about gay sex: While there’s a fair amount of bow-chicka-bow-wow in Game of Thrones, none of it is same-sex, seeing as there are no canonically non-straight characters. So let’s start with this question, asked of George R.R. I think I can guess which part of the headline caught your attention.
