"George R.R. Martin’s ‘Winds Of Winter’ Will Be Out ..." Topic

…This Year… Maybe

"It's now going on six years since the last installment of George R.R. Martin‘s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire' novel series, which inspired HBO's hit series ‘Game of Thrones'. The delay has been so long that the show caught up to all of the published plotlines in the novels and had to start making up new ones (with Martin's input of course). Martin insisted he was getting down to business in 2016 and would have the newest book, ‘The Winds of Winter' out by now. He didn't and it's not.

Via Live Journal, Martin stated that he believes that ‘The Winds of Winter' will be out this year. Maybe…."
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Armand

I've lost almost all interest in this now. I'll watch the show but I'll wait until the book series is complete before before picking them up.

George and I are both too old for this, and his speculation about publication dates is neither news nor entertainment. Someone let me know if he ever finishes the series, and I'll resume reading.

Someone's writing fan fiction about the show? Neato.

I'll pile on to say meh.

At this point he is years late in retaining my interest and the show has become the canon story to me.

So… the Serie literally kill the books?…

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Armand

I've lost interest in both the books and the tv show.

My interest faded away, and currently I'm reading lots of historical fiction.
Which is a major inspiration for my wargaming.

The HBO series is now canon for me.
George's books are now fan fiction. He brought it on himself.

For me, yes the HBO series killed my interest in the books……..although Martin's last few books in the series had already reduced my interest in any future books (I just wanted to see the conclusion at this point).

Yawn.

I concur with waaslandwarrior.
I read the original trilogy about 15+ years ago, haven't read any since. I also lost interest in the TV show around series 5.
There's plenty of better books out there, and probably TV shows too for that matter

Agree with Winston.

I started as a fan of the books although I only started reading them in 2014. I finished them by 2015 and started to watch the series for grins. Seasons 5&6 really got me hooked on the series. I felt that it was a cleaner narrative. I had been disappointed in Books 4&5 since they introduced characters and story lines that pretty much went nowhere. And now armed with the knowledge that while the path to who sits the Iron Throne and who wins the war with the Dead may differ between the two platforms the end result will be the same has killed a lot of my interest in the books. Although I am an avid reader I find a lot of ASOIAF to be pretty tedious and with the advance chapters that GRRM has released that looks to continue. An awful lot of the book seems to involve….

SPOILER ALERTS

Euron Victorian and the Iron Born which I find tedious as well as the fact that Sansa's story will still be tied up with her being Alayne and internal politics in the Vale involving a character named Harry the Heir who we know doesn't matter because he doesn't exist in the series. Likewise the whole fake Aegon plot is a red herring.

Look, while it's true that the series will hurt GRRM will still sell plenty of books, the series has made him quite rich and since he's likely to lease his characters to HBO for either a prequel series or a couple of movies I'm not going to feel bad about his situation. BTW, since GRRM was pretty sure that Winds of Winter would be out around Christmas of 2015 and then in the Spring, and then in the fall of 2016, it'll believe it's out when I see it in the bookstores.