All y'all are gonna poo right in your pants... Before Bantam Spectra published A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin on 08/06/1996, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine included Blood of the Dragon, a novella consisting of Daenerys's chapters from Game of Thrones in the July 1996 issue. The novella was republished by Bantam Spectra later that year as Blood of the Dragon: The Iron Throne Saga, Part I. Now, I had read that the original published version differed from Game (first in @Frey