Will George R R R R Martin ever finish the G o T Books?

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George R R R R Martin

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JRR Tolkien > R&R Railroad > GRR Martin

No

No

I think he will. I think he will buck the path the tv writers have taken just to be a dick, though.

He should at least have a complete outline. Then have someone else fill in the details if he can not finish the book himself.

I doubt it.

If I was his publisher I'd have Brandon Sanderson on retainer and standing by a red phone. As soon as the fat bastard croaks there'd be a pre-filled out check on it's way to Sanderson via armed courier. The courier would have instructions to witness Sanderson cash or deposit the check and then stand by with hand on weapon until the books are finished.

I too have been reading these books since Bill fricking Clinton was in office. I've re-read them twice.


FINISH THE GODDAM BOOKS FATMAN!!!

I believe Winds is finished and that we'll see a dream of spring released in 2025 posthumously, and if anyone finishes it besides GRRM it will be a combination of Linda, Ran and his editors. I'm an optimist though.

No. And I don't feel like he's even really pretending anymore.

Martin is an almost unimaginable dickhead too. The more one reads about him (or reads his own personal statements) the more one is convinced that he'll refuse to allow anyone to finish it after he dies. I believe he's said as much.

I already thought he was kind of full of shite about how hard it was to finish the series and why it was taking so long, but then I read Joe Abercrombie and I began to just actively despise Martin. Abercrombie wrote 6 novels in the First Law universe - a complete trilogy and 3 stand-alones in the time since Martin's last Thrones book. I'm not going to sit here and claim that Abercrombie's world is quite as richly detailed or his plots as complex, but COME ON, they're pretty damn good. Once you've read them it really puts Martin in perspective - he's a lazy fat a-hole.