George R.R. Martin may be unable to finish his Game of Thrones books.

[speak easy]

George RR Martin signs five-year, eight-figure deal for more HBO projects
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/29/george-rr-martin-signs-five-year-eight-figure-deal-hbo-projects-game-of-thrones

Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the author, who won four Emmys for his work on the adaptations of his bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series, has signed a contract “worth mid-eight figures” spanning five years.
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However, fans are still waiting for Martin to finish writing the books Game of Thrones was based on – the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, has been anticipated since the previous instalment was published in 2011. Martin has repeatedly cited both his workload and travel as preventing him from finishing what will be the penultimate book in the series.

Martin is also working on a Game of Thrones Netflix film, and Broadway play. The last Game of Thrones book, A Dance with Dragons, was published in July, 2011. Martin has promised the sixth, The Winds of Winter, would be published next year, every year since 2015.

[AleksS]

1. Yeah. He's just trolling us now.

There’ll be no next book.

[padah513]

2. I sure hope he does

I'm still reading A Feast of Crows, so I got a few books left before I'm caught up.

[Yavin4]

18. A Feast of Crows is the 2nd best book in the entire series.

The best is A Storm of Swords.

[Dave Starsky]

19. Ugh. I thought Feast of Crows was just awful.

It's one of the longer books, and literally nothing of consequence happens in it. There are chapters and chapters of pointless dialogue that goes nowhere and does nothing to advance the plot. All the characters just kind of... move around. Brienne spends the entire book on a wild goose chase.

Feast (for) Crows was the book that had me give up on the series. I could tell that Martin was starting to rest on his laurels and was really phoning it in at that point.

[Yavin4]

20. On first read, I thought similar

On 2nd read, I completely changed my mind. It's a sobering treatise on the after effects of war.

[Dave Starsky]

21. You gave it TWO reads??!

You must be a real glutton for punishment. I was furious at myself for having wasted that time reading it even once. (And yes, I read the whole thing, fool that I was).

[Yavin4]

22. I read the entire series twice.

It's truly remarkable.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. I re-read each time a new book was released. So I have not done a

second read on Dragons.

When I go back through, I am going to use the chapter merging of books 4 and 5 which gets the plot lines more like he usually arranges them. This is where having two Kindles will be handy; read book 4 on one and book 5 on the other, following the list order.

You can get the merged chapter list on the Tower of the Hand website.

[msongs]

3. like tina turner said, she's done her bit for the fans and time now for herself nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. He's going to pull a Valve Software on us, and the next book, after 15 years

Will be a freaking prequel like Half Life - Alyx.

Which was still awesome, as a side note

[PoliticAverse]

7. Left 4 Dead 3 please! n/t

[Shermann]

5. He needs to finish those two books so HBO can reshoot GoT seasons 6-8 properly

The cast is getting older so it'd be getting less believable each year.

I guess seasons 6 and 7 weren't too bad. Season 8 was unacceptable.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Is there someone that actually thinks he'll be finishing the series?

And after season 8, how many people really care?

[speak easy]

9. Hells Bells

[Binkie The Clown]

8. By the time he gets around to writing the last book we will all have forgotten what came before.

So we'll have no reason to buy it.

[yellowdogintexas]

11. I will reread the series, like I did with 4 & 5.

The day I get the email telling me it is available for pre order, I will start my re-read. Every time I read them again I discover some arcane little detail that I missed before.

I seldom re-read books but I have read books 1, 2 & 3 three times each; book 4 twice and book 5 once.

This time when I get to book 4 I plan to use the integrated chapter order which combines the two books to get the POVs in better order.

FYI I was in his blog yesterday and he said he has written hundreds of pages while holed up in Santa Fe.

[Binkie The Clown]

23. Yeah. Me too. Sadly I'm hooked.

After all, I did the same for Harry Potter and Hunger Games.

[TheRealNorth]

10. I understand not doing it if he has lost the passion for the project....

Although you would hope that he would hand it off to someone he trusts that could finish it.

We all know Daenerys is gonna go cray cray at the end (GRRM has confirmed that I believe) but there are a lot of other subplots in the books that are not addressed in the show.

[speak easy]

13. and if HBO is offered a contract "worth mid-eight figures" .

promising book six would be published next year, every year, since 2015 is another matter.

From TFA Writing on his website in 2019, Martin said that if he did not finish the book by 29 July 2020, fans had permission to imprison him “in a small cabin on White Island, overlooking that lake of sulfuric acid”.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. if all the subplots had been included previously the show would still be running

There are things here and there which I wonder about, like WTF happened to The Blackfish?

He swam out of that castle into the river and vanished. I kept expecting him to show up at some crucial point and either off a particularly dangerous person or save the day for one of the other characters.

Hopefully we will find out in book 6.

We saw The Hound in another TV show the other day. I don't remember the name and the only thing I recognize in his IMDB is Game of THrones.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. I think I might've see him ... was it the Irregulars on Netflix?

He's the bad guy?

Looked like him but I didn't look it up.

The first episode was silly, don't plan to continue watching.

The Asian girl Bea was pretty good though, in fact acting was solid, but story was ... dumb.

[Bristlecone]

12. He's got more Meow Wolfs to open.

Vegas, Denver and who knows where else.

[Goodheart]

16. What a pity.

[Glorfindel]

17. He could hire Brandon Sanderson to finish them for him

Mr. Sanderson did a creditable job finishing Robert Jordan's "Eye of the World" series after Mr. Jordan's untimely death.