 If ever there was a fantasy series ripe for HBO’s plucking, it would have to be George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire,” set to debut April 17 on the cable network as “Game of Thrones.”) The first four volumes of “A Song of Ice and Fire” — (“A Game of Thrones,” “A Clash of Kings,” “A Storm of Swords” and “A Feast for Crows”) overflow with gratuitous sex and violence — just the kind of fare we’ve come to expect from the small-screen boundary-pushers who gave us “Rome,” “Deadwood” and “True Blood.” Brothels, dragons and more decapitations than you can count: What more could a jaded television audience possibly want? It’s certainly no shocker to note that the fantasy genre has come a long way since “The Lord of the Rings”; the quantity of graphic sex and violence in your typical adult-targeted sword-and-sorcery extravaganza has risen steadily for decades. But Martin’s fantasy saga demands a literary classification almost all its own — call it, for better or worse,realist fantasy.      |
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