While I leave you to ponder the genesis of that logic, I'll tell you that Martin isn't keen simply to create sex scenes for the sake of them (something HBO has no qualms about at all). I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene - most of the letters come from women.' Might that mean a broader carnal viewpoint would be accommodated? For him, because none of the viewpoint characters is gay, there hasn't been the opportunity for gay sex. However, this makes the books far more rigid in structure than TV. You're seeing me from your viewpoint, you're not seeing what someone over here is seeing,' he said. 'Frankly, it is the way I prefer to write fiction because that is the way all of us experience life. Martin was asked this very question at the Edinburgh International Book Festival only last night.Īs the Guardian reports, he explained that the voices of his books come from 'viewpoint characters.' Martin's books, though that's not the case on the TV show adapted from the novels. It's noticeable, however, that this carnal exercise has explicitly been of the heterosexual variety in George R.R. I understand that most people watch the HBO series 'Game Of Thrones' for its copious and brutal acts of violence and for its regular bouts of carnal exercise.
Martin of 'Game of Thrones' signs autographs at Comic-Con in San Diego last month.