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Originally Posted by chip75
Book 4 A Feast of Crows takes place at the same time as book 3 A Storm of Swords which they couldn't do with a television series (unless we had 2 seasons running at the same time). So it looks like they've more or less treated each one as a different season. It would have been nice to have 20 episodes instead of 10!
I'm not sure what they'll do with the next book (5) as some territories had it as one book while I think we had it split in two.
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Originally Posted by Surfdude
Actually A Feast for Crows takes place at the same time as A Dance with Dragons (Book 5).
A Storm of Swords was also split into two books in the UK release as well as book 5, which will presumably be fairly similar to how the TV series will pan out.
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I haven't read the books but know the rough structure (with the overlapping narratives of 4 and 5) and read interviews with the producers about it. It looks like Season 4 will have the rest of 3 (we're about two-thirds into it I believe? Or just over halfway?) and parts of 4 (and maybe 5) with Season 5 combining 4 and 5 with the narratives sticking to the timeline rather than separating the stories. I would assuming that adding 4 and 5 together would mean it would also need to split into season 6 as well (as Surfdude says, 5 is a massive book even before you add in the events of book 4) leaving seasons 7 and 8 for the final two books. Though, of course, no-one knows how big these will be so the producers' recent comments that ten seasons may be too much may be premature as it may end up needing to be that much to fit it all in.