Lawrence's trilogy belongs to the wave Martin made commercially possible: fantasy where the protagonist is not admirable, where a point-of-view character can die, and where the setting's cruelty is the subject rather than the backdrop. Prince Jorg is that position pushed to its end, a boy who opens the book with a massacre and narrates it without apology. That is publishable in a market A Song of Ice and Fire built. Filed MEDIUM. It is a genre inheritance rather than a borrowing, and Lawrence's stated influences lean more on Gene Wolfe than on Martin.