A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of five high fantasy books written by American author George R. R. Martin. The series chronicles the affairs of a plethora of characters in the continent of Westeros and its eastern neighbor of Essos. Since 1996, the year in which the first book, A Game of Thrones, was published, characters like Jon, Daenerys and Tyrion have navigated the narrative dynamics of prophecy, politics, love and hate, and have become immensely popular especially through the HBO TV adaptation of the saga.

The objective of our work is to attempt and understand how speculative fiction reflects the overarching change in the study of the natural world from a natural history approach to it to a biology approach. In essence, we wanted to see, through the microcosm of the speculative fauna of this universe, how literature deals with what Michel Foucault, in his book “The Order of Things”, called the epistème - the structure of knowledge bound to change due to underlying historical conditions.