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GRRM Confirms That He's Hasn't Worked On ASOIAF Since 2022 (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 3 months ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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Apologies for the slightly off-topic post...

It's not looking good, folks...

George R R Martin confirms he hasn't written anything for the 2 remaining A Song Of Ice And Fire books since 2022.

He wishes that they were finished.

The last published book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in July 2011, now 13 years ago.

Obligatory song that's now 12 years old... https://youtu.be/j7lp3RhzfgI

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[–] figjam@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

Good for him. I would also want to pretend the last season didn't exist.

[–] amio@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Shocking.

GoT's final half and definitely last season pissed me off to no end at the time, but in retrospect I'm glad I don't have to care about this anymore.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand we have Brandon Sanderson with 20 year roadmap and consistent release coupled with all the secret novels that he wrote.

I have this sneaking suspicion that he has this black magic power to suck all the creative will of writers, including GRRM and Patrick Rothfuss.

[–] Atrichum@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I stopped reading Sanderson specifically because he puts out so many books with unnecessarily huge page counts that I just don't care anymore.

I'm not allergic to long books either, having read the entire WoT series 3+ times. But I'd much rather read stuff that authors have spent time on instead of mass producing.

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

What a coincidence, I haven't thought about reading a book from GRRM since May 2019

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I see these posts every once in a while and it seems weird the topic of a book not being written still captures people's attention after so long and so much repeated discussion.

[–] Blackthorn@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol, I'm not exactly a fan of the series (I only really liked the first two books) but this is ridiculous. At this point he is just trolling. I'd say I'm happy I moved on. I haven't even bought A dance with dragons because I couldn't finish the one before that as I didn't really like it. That being said, I'd like to get a conclusion to the story and I'm willing to go back to the series AFTER it's concluded (which most likely will never happen).

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yea I gave up on it too…

[–] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 2 points 3 months ago

I gave up about a decade ago. It just relief accepting the fact the it's never gonna be completed.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, we knew that, George.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I'm still waiting on a sequel to the Runaway Bunny

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