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

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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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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

I'm entirely unsurprised.

D and D got a lot of heat for the last season of Game of Thrones, but I've never thought they were entirely, or even chiefly, to blame. Most of the problem really is that GRRM obviously desperately needed an editor to rein him in as the series went along, but for whatever reason, that didn't happen. So now he has this huge, sprawling mess of a story that's going in eighteen different directions at once, and just as D and D couldn't manage to tie it all together, neither can he.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

D&D's biggest problem is they did a good job adapting pre-existing material, but couldn't adapt a PowerPoint deck.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IIRC from some article or interview way back then, Martin had provided D&D an outline of all the major plot points he intended through the end of the series. So while they might not have had the specifics, the major points would have been there.

If that was true, then it would make sense that they used those major points for the basis of the rest of the show. After the abysmal reception of those points by the fans, I would imagine Martin would have stopped to think about his plans, possibly losing interest entirely.

That assumes that he did in fact provide those major points to D&D in the first place to have adapted however.

[–] bibliotectress@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

There are three subreddits I miss after leaving reddit, and one of them is r/freefolk.

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