THE GAME OF THRONES/ASOIAF SPOILER THREAD (WARNING: SPOILERS)

Been a long time since I posted itt, but watching the shows has made me think about the books again.

I laughed to see GRRM putting out an angry blog about how he has not finished the books:

That seems to be happening right now. All of a sudden this crazy story about my finishing THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING years ago is popping up everywhere. No, I am not going to provide links. I don’t want to reward purveyors of misinformation with hits.

I will, however, say for the record — no, THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING are not finished. DREAM is not even begun; I am not going to start writing volume seven until I finish volume six

It seems absurd to me that I need to state this. The world is round, the Earth revolves around the sun, water is wet…

If he ever finishes the books and they turn out to be reasonably good, there will inevitably be a clamour for a TV adaptation of them

https://www.polygon.com/23200605/game-of-thrones-books-ending-winds-of-winter-george-r-r-martin-song-ice-fire

Diplomatic way of saying that you don't want to make the same mistakes that GOT made.

But I'm sure it's a (kings)moot point because TWOW isn't ever going to get published.

One thing I can say, in general enough terms that I will not be spoiling anything: not all of the characters who survived until the end of Game of Thrones will survive until the end of A Song of Ice and Fire, and not all of the characters who died on Game of Thrones will die in A Song of Ice and Fire. (Some will, sure. Of course. Maybe most. But definitely not all)

Something about this makes the storytelling seem kind of empty. Like playing a game to get the "good ending".

Fan reactions for genre stuff are so often centered around, ‘you killed my favorite character and ruined it for me!’ or ‘this character wasn’t punished properly’

I like his chances more than Rosemary Kirstein, Melanie Rawn and Robin McKinley. Janny Wurts and JV Jones are closing near the finish line now.

George's friend Phyllis Eisenstein finished her long running series plus another novel shortly before she died but nobody is publishing them, which is a total bummer

Forgotten Diane Duane, there's a 4th book that has been waited on for nearly 30 years now

George's friend Phyllis Eisenstein

Have you read her? I found a copy of Sorceror's Son in a Little Free Library - might give it a try.

Not yet but I bought a few things, I've heard plenty of good things.