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P&KA's avatar

Did he say how his diet is going?

it looks like he completed “The Vastness of Volumnity”

Drewie's avatar

The amount of memes this pic can generate.

DemsAreTrash's avatar

You're never getting this book. Just move on.

Harry Nuckels's avatar

If Martin had even the slightest amount of respect for his readers, he might consider taking on a co-author at this point; if someone were to help him get to the finish line with WINDS OF WINTER, perhaps he could even step back and let the writer of his choice do 99% of the work on A DREAM OF SPRING-- at this point, people may accept any reasonably competent ending...

Drewie's avatar

Man, this guy is fat. Wowzers!

bammin's avatar

His Rotundity need not worry much longer. By the looks of his waistline he’ll be put out of his misery soon enough.

Mile High Bear's avatar

This godless troll has no neck. Its beard just kind of merges with its sloping arms. I don't even think it's got shoulders. Hell, I'd be depressed too if I looked like that.

This little imp got what it wished for, then couldn't handle the success. Maybe creating 24+ character arcs wasn't such a good idea.

Slowfatninjah's avatar

Robert Jordan and GRRM ruined the multi-episode epic fantasy. Patrick Rothfuss is pretty damn close too but at least he doesn't have one foot in the grave like GRRM.

Why can't more authors be as reliable as Joe Abercrombie, Jim Butcher (though Jimmy has been slacking off lately now that he's ) or the dozens of authors I've found on Kindle Unlimited who not only have long runs but still manage to keep the quality across the series?

Skyler the Weird's avatar

Butcher at least finished the Pokemon in Rome series.

Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

Nowhere in the post does Martin mention the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire.

Nor will he. I think he's lost the will to write that last book.

Me,, on the other hand, I've written 13 books, published 8, working on 2. I'm nowhere near stopping.

Betsy's avatar

He's playing his fans, his agent, his publisher. I'm sure he is depressed and so forth but everything about him emanates "I am completely done and never going back." I think the great ending the TV series had (I may be the only person in the world who thinks this) has frozen his creativity - either his ending is different and not as good, or the same and not as good.

Gregory DeVore's avatar

The biostellar universe feels unfinished as well. There are story arcs that still have not been finished. Are you and Vox returning to that universe? I have read all 4 books in the series and would like to see it come to conclusions. Perhaps a task for that A.I. you guys are developing.