Elio M. García Jr. (born 1978) co-founded Westeros.org, one of the earliest fan sites for George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, with Linda Antonsson. Martin enlisted the pair in 2006 to help develop the series' in-world history, leading to their co-authored companion volumes The World of Ice & Fire (2014) and The Rise of the Dragon (2022).
George Raymond Richard Martin (born 20 September 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. His early work includes the novels Dying of the Light (1977), Fevre Dream and The Armageddon Rag, and the story collections Sandkings and Tuf Voyaging. From the mid-1980s he also wrote for television, on the revived The Twilight Zone and on Beauty and the Beast, where he became a co-supervising producer. He is best known for the epic fantasy sequence A Song...