6 May 2024

Wildfire

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 6 May 2024
US writer George R.R Martin, author of the book series Game of Thrones, at a book fair in Mexico.

George RR Martin, author of Game of Thrones and the imagination behind Wildfire Photo: AFP

UK based award-winning science journalist and broadcaster, Kit Chapman, friend of the MacDiarmid Institute, talks Wildfire from Game of Thrones.

Wildfire is a flammable liquid causing flames so hot that water cannot extinguish them. In the TV series, Cersei Lannister used it to devastating effect to get rid of her enemies.

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