His books are global bestsellers and adored by his fans, but he admitted there was still a kind of literary prejudice against his type of fantasy fiction. Martin was one of the star names at the book festival, staged in association with the Guardian. If it was a democracy, then Joffrey would have died much earlier than he did.' If the plot lends itself to that, if one of my viewpoint characters is in a situation, then I'm not going to shy away from it, but you can't just insert things because everyone wants to see them. I've had letters from fans who want me to present particularly an explicit male sex scene – most of the letters come from women.'īut he added: 'I'm not going to do it just for the sake of doing it. 'A television show doesn't have those limitations,' he said. Because none of the viewpoint characters are gay, there are no explicit gay sex scenes in the early books.
