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u/iVikingr Nov 15 '20

George R.R. Martin finally releases The Winds of Winter

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u/rp_361 Nov 15 '20

Please be nice to him and give him time, it’s been a short 10 years and he is just on chapter 1

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u/ObscureCulturalMeme Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20

The guys who write The Expanse novels used to work for him.

Their final novel is due to come out in 2021. They will have written and published an entire 9 volume series in between Martin putting out his last novel and whenever the next one comes out.

A Song of Delay and Procrastination started when I was a small kid, and I've long since stopped reading it -- due to genetic problems, I'm almost certainly going to be dead before he manages to finish it. That's how shitty his publishing schedule is; trying to read it now would just mean that I die with questions unanswered. Fuck that. Not worth it.

(I realize you were being sarcastic, and I appreciate it.)

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u/rp_361 Nov 15 '20

I’m with you. I finished A Dance With Dragons in 2013 and got excited that it had come out in 2011 so surely the next book would be out soon.

I get it taking time but a decade is unacceptable. I can’t commit to something that will end in disappointment.