Imaginary History: PW Talks With George R.R. Martin

I was using the term "fake history" for a number of years, and some of my readers actually took umbrage at that. They didn't like the term-they felt that it was demeaning, and that I was demeaning my own work. As much as I might steal from real history, file off the serial numbers, do my own version of it, and draw inspiration from it, it's not meant to take its place, or suggest that there's any level of reality to it. So I thought imaginary history was a good way to describe it.