Gary Westfahl on “Back to the Egg”

Beyond the Wall contributorGary Westfahlshares his thoughts on his essay,“Back to the Egg,”below.

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As a critic, my natural impulse is always to go where other critics rarely go, so when Jim Lowder invited me to write an essay about George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series, I immediately thought about examining its most obscure elements—the three prequels that Martin had written about the characters of Dunk and Egg. Why, I wondered, would an author in the midst of crafting a vast fantas...