Game of Thrones‘ author George RR Martin, who helped helped bring the long-extinct dire wolf back to life after years of extinction has shared his experience of meeting the pups on his new blog. George RR MArtin poses with one of the three dire wolf pups “So D-Day came early, on April 7 instead of April 8. Welcome to Direwolf Day. I’ve been holding my tongue for months now, sworn to silence yet dying to tell the world. Pardon my shouting, but… THE DIREWOLF IS BACK… There’s so much more to say… and a lot of stories out there are saying it. For my part… well, let me first thank Peter Jackson, who phoned me up from New Zealand with a mysterious suggestion that I phone this guy named Ben Lamm, who had something huge he wanted to share with me. Peter had taken an oath of silence, so he could not share the secret with me, but I could hear the excitement in his voice, so I made the call. And damn, I am …