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A Song Of Ice And Fire

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Not really a big surprise. But still, a sobering reminder of the current state of the book series.

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[โ€“] MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure if the website changed its headline but linked in this article is a link to https://www.gamesradar.com/george-r-r-martin-game-of-thrones-winds-of-winter-update/ from Nov 2023 when he first said this.

So we've know this for the better part of a year. His more recent interview from a few weeks ago is that he wishes he was finished. Specifically that he could have written it all first, then publish each book.

(Although if I recall originally the story was meant to be just three books, but as he wrote it expanded to eventually become the current/planned seven. Although the length of these books has increased so what is "a book" really?)

[โ€“] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No, they didn't change the article title. I just picked out one specific detail from the article for this title because the main title was stuff we already knew. I didn't know he hadn't written any ASOIAF content in over a year and a half.