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A Storm of Swords is the third novel in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by Author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 8 2000 in the UK, 3 months later on November 2000 it was released in the US. At the publication was A Storm of Swords the longest novel in the series. It won 2001 the Locus Award, 2002 the Geffen Award for the Best Novel and was 2001 nominated for the Nebula Award for the Best Novel. It was the first book in this series to nominated for one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy publishing, the Hugo Award, though it lost to J. K. Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Funfact: the book was so long that it got split into two parts in the UK, Australia, Israel, Greece and Poland. The first part was published under the name Steel and Snow in June 2001 with the one-volume cover and the second part as Blood and Gold in August 2001 with a specially-commissioned new cover. In they even cut it into four separate volumes.