A Game of Thrones - August, 1996 A Clash of Kings - February, 1999 A Storm of Swords - November, 2000 A Feast for Crows - November, 2005 A Dance with Dragons - July, 2011 That's a very disturbing pattern...
So GRRM is too sick to give us a fucking update on the book but he's not sick enough to write a few paragraphs telling us how sick he is? We're never getting the end of these books.
Let him die and then have Brandon Sanderson finish the books. 0 doubt in my mind he could do an excellent job at it. And we wouldn't wait 50 years.
Is there even a pattern there? I think the disturbing thing is the fact that there are people with 20 years of interest in this series AND most likely it'll never be finished lmbo
Only familiar with Sanderson from wot so concerned that he would struggle maintaining the darkness of the story line.
Mistborn was ok, but you should start on his new series, the Stormlight Archive. Only 2 have been released so far, but they're phenomenal. And he's a prolific writer so no waiting around for 7 years like with GRRM.
As appreciative as I was at how diligent he was at finishing my favorite series after RJ died you could tell he was a Perrin guy who didn't understand Matt at all.
http://www.businessinsider.com/acto...2&tse_id=INF_cfbfe920388711e69519013b248da655 Cliffs there's a bunch of peeps from the HP movies in GoT. Including hagrid as Wunwun.
He started writing in 1991 so that's nine years for the first three and 11 years for the next two. Plus who knows when Winds is coming out. I've always been optimistic and given him the benefit of the doubt but now I'm starting to get worried.
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lol from yesterday The Evening Star Rises Jun. 26th, 2016 at 10:43 PM The results of this year's Locus Awards voting were announced this weekend in Seattle, and I am delighted to announce that OLD VENUS took home the honors as last year's Best Anthology. Alas, I was not able to be there in person to accept. Nor was my co-editor, Gardner Dozois, who is still in hospital in Philadelphia recovering from a broken ankle. But we were both thrilled. I did send LOCUS a few words to be read in the event of our victory: "Gardner and I are both sorry that we could not be with you tonight, but we're surprised and delighted to accept this award for OLD VENUS. As with all of our anthologies, the real credit belongs to our writers, who gave us such amazing stories. Nonetheless, we plan on keeping the plaque for ourselves. Two years ago the readers of Locus honored OLD MARS as best anthology. This year OLD VENUS. It's very gratifying to know that the readers still appreciate new anthologies of old stuff... that is, new old stuff... well, you know what I mean... put together by old grey editors who were new young turks just yesterday. Keep your eyes out for OLD URANUS, coming to a bookstore near you soon...." All kidding aside, I am very proud of OLD VENUS, and I know Gardner is as well. There are some terrific stories in there, and one that in any normal year would have been a surefire Hugo finalist. This is the third year in a row that one of the original anthologies that I've done with Gardner has won the Locus Award, and I can't tell you how gratifying that is. Gardner and I both began our careers (a long time ago) with short fiction, and it pleases me no end to be able to provide a showcase for some of the extraordinary short stories, novelettes, and novellas still being written in this age of the series and the meganovel. If you don't read anthologies, friends, you are missing out on some great stuff. Oh, and before the crazy internet rumors start flying, I had better say that I was only kidding about OLD URANUS. I do want to do some more books with Gardner, but not until I have subdued the Son of Kong. Meanwhile, Gargy is flying solo on a couple of great new original anthologies of his own, and I know those will be full of awards contenders as well.
Nothing to see there. "The show moved faster than I anticipated and I moved more slowly," a part of his blog post read. Who would have expected that the show runners would put out one season per year? Could see how that was shocking.
He expected the episodes to each have about 30 minute scenes zooming in on the food in the banquets with a narrator describing them. They should be on like Book 3 right now, but nooooo...
I remember fondly all those reports from summer 2015 about TWoW being wrapped up, and GRRM was just waiting for the winter of 2015/16 to release it, appropriate for its name, and to piggyback on the anticipation for another season of the show.
I remember being in Ireland with jorge at the end of August 2014 and reading articles saying it was almost done No expectations of it ever being completed.
The rumors are coming from shitty websites that aren't even real. Would it surprise me to see the book before season 7? No. But do I trust these reports that it's "rumored" to be done? Hell no.
I remember in 2011 when ADwD came out people said he had also almost finished TWoW and it would come out in 2013. HAH
The article say's that rumors say its been done for awhile but he's sitting on it. They could have just as well of cited this page as the source of the rumor.