For those who came aboard the
franchise with the HBO series that premiered way back in 2011, the epic story
of the lordly Stark family, the succession crisis on the Iron Throne of
Westeros, and the magical zombie apocalypse from the frozen north, were concluded
in the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” last 2019. But for the
purists who began reading George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books
since “A Game of Thrones” in 1996, the real story only ends when the projected seventh
book comes out. Unfortunately the series has only been up to book 4, published
2011. Book 6 is still unfinished.
The readership badgering George
R.R. Martin to finally bring out “The Winds of Winter” – the penultimate volume
of his “A Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy series – has become a meme for how many
years it has been going on. But as Entertainment
Weekly tells us, the now-72-year-old veteran author has given a positive
update on progress regarding the long-delayed book. Apparently “ASOIAF” fans
can thank the COVID-19 pandemic for keeping Martin cooped up in one place, because
it helped him write “hundreds of pages” worth of story for once.
On his blog, Martin noted to his
fans that 2020 gave him “the best work on ‘WOW’” since he began it. That is
saying something since he has been working on it following the release of “A
Dance with Dragons” in 2011. His reasoning for his writing speed last year was,
“Maybe the isolation. Or maybe I just got on a roll. Sometimes I do get on a
roll." Then he dampened reader spirits by saying that there are actually
hundreds more pages of narrative and dialogue he needs to put down, and he is
no longer making prediction dates on when he will actually be done with it all.
To reference, the “Game of
Thrones” HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s work made use of broad strokes
for the plots of the five published books until roughly season 5 (2015), where
Jon Snow was stabbed and left to die by the Night’s Watch for treason. Since
season 6 to 8, series show-runners D.B Weiss and Dave Benioff have taken the
storyline down an original path, though they maintain that the bastard Jon Snow’s
parentage reveal in-series was what Martin was working on in writing.
Of course, other matters are
cutting into Martin’s time writing “Winds of Winter.” He is also being consulted
on various spinoffs being developed by HBO. One prequel series, “House of the
Dragon,” is supposed to commence shooting later this year.
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