haxxiy said:
George R.R. Martin will never ever finish his story. Originally, as per his leaked outline, this was planned as a trilogy dealing with 1) the war of the five kings, and a five year time gap 2) the dothraki invasion of Westeros and 3) the threat of the others. A full generation after the first book released, we're 33% through his intended history. 50%, if you are willing to consider AFFC and ADWD, the two books that have filled the space of the time gap, as an arc on their own. Meanwhile we've had: - All Harry Potter books released - Two Star Wars trilogies - The LOTR and the Hobbit movie trilogies - The whole Malazan Book of the Fallen series released, for comparison's sake So... yeah. Not happening. This is very frustrating and somewhat disrespectful with his audience, if you want to know what I think. People bought these books on the premise there would be a conclusion to it. How many would buy it otherwise? I wouldn't go as far as calling it fraud, but people were absolutely not making a high-risk investment on an author who clearly don't know how to disentangle the convoluted mess he created himself. No, we'll have to make do with D&D's dumb interpretation and ending I'm afraid. |
I’m sure if Martin doesn’t finish the series then they will have another author take it up. That ended up being a good thing with the wheel of time series. Robert Jordan just kept creating new pointless threads that didn’t progress his story. After he passed they gave it to Brandon Sanderson who then finished the series with the 3 best books in the series....
still, I kinda doubt it will come to that. Martin will finish it eventually. He just isn’t a very productive writer, never has been. All his books are like 5-7 years apart...
