Thanks to Game of Thrones‘ success, HBO already has a built-in audience for a limited series adaptation of George R.R. That was probably my best known book before “Game of Thrones.” And I think it’s one of my best. I think the one I’d most like to see would be my historical horror novel, “Fevre Dream,” that came out, a vampire novel set on the Mississippi River in the antebellum period. Martin approve of such an adaptation? In 2018, he told The New York Times Its grounded, Civil War-era setting would cost HBO far less than it did to produce a season of Game of Thrones. Fevre Dream‘s relative brevity makes it manageable to adapt to the small screen. Unlike Martin’s ambitious fantasy series, however, Fevre Dream is a fast-paced 460 pages with a satisfying ending. Fevre Dream also has well-wrought, conflicted characters, social commentary, and enough violence to sate the most bloodthirsty of audiences. Like A Game of Thrones, Fevre Dream weaves historical fact with fantastical fiction in a sophisticated and delightful manner. Martin’s 1982 novel boasts steamboats, vampires, vampire hunters, and a heady mix of fresh blood and river water. Immediately, I was impressed with its potential for an HBO adaptation. In the heart of its geographic setting, I re-read Fevre Dream. Martin, who is best known for his A Song of Ice and Fire series and its subsequent HBO adaptation, penned a vampire novel entitled Fevre Dream long before A Game of Thrones hit the shelves. Similarly inspired by the terrifying potential of Iowa and its adjacent rivers, author George R.R. That summer was imbued with a sense of eerie powerlessness that is an often discounted but very present element of the American Midwest. Last summer, I watched the final episode of Game of Thrones in my humid Iowa apartment before quickly absconding to a family farm in rural Illinois where the flooding Mississippi river was ruthlessly rushing into towns and highways.

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