The Winds of Winter is the sixth novel in a series.
 The Greek wind gods include Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus
 Novels from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980) and Foucault's Pendulum (1989) made use of intertextual references

