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Tbh I’m sadder about the Dunk and Egg books, especially with the new show

Trump executive order to have Martin finish this shit when?

Not the worst news in the world considering how bad the television series ended.

Convinced that fans guessing his big twist killed his enthusiasm

"If they're all writing fanfic and starting decades of flame wars over it, then I wrote enough." 😎👍 Baller

S'okay, George, no one cares anymore.

No kidding. He said when he started writing the book that he had struggled with the previous one & had fallen out of love with GoT. He thought writing another story would help, but I really can't blame him. Nobody is owed an ending & nobody would like what would happen if he actually did.

Good. The last thing I want is for what happened to Wheel of Time and to Dune to happen to any other series.

Exactly. The fans will finish the series and I actually think that's cool.

Embarrassment

It keeps people talking about him, and, by extension, his new projects.

I just wish he would come out and say it isn't coming and to stop asking about it so I don't ever expect to see it

ChatGPT ? 🙈

What a selfish sob

its simple. he will finish it once the jets win the super bowl again

Good. I've seen what happens when someone else tries to finish it, I'll just be happy with what we've got.

At this point it's finished. He's just doing the novelization of the TV show.

Good. Sometimes we just have to sit with the threat of no closure, its good for us.

We figured that out quite a while ago tbh George.

I’m going to finish it anyways, copyright be damned. The I’ll change my name to George RR Martin and there won’t be a damn thing his dead ass can do about it.

He's said this about a million times.

If the show Game of Thrones hadn't been made, this book series would have been finished by 2020

I've accepted this is never going to be finished. I am deeply bitterly disappointed about it and feel para social betrayal. And it makes me appreciate even more writers like @jannywurts.bsky.social who managed to do what Martin could not.

who cares

Look, I laud his ethical stance on this, but there is zero chance that whoever inherits his copyrights will not immediately whore it out. That's just the way the world works

I understand his position. Let him be. A lot of people simply grow weary and the Internet accelerates that weariness. People hound him relentlessly about it. I’d not finish A Song of Ice and Fire just out of spite if it were me.

As a fan that got in on the ground floor so many years ago, I have learned to move on. I just don't care anymore. He clearly doesn't care about the series and hasn't for years. Just forget about him and let him live out the rest of his days.

This is ALSO what I think, lol

Exactly. I entirely sympathise with him. Be nice if he could finish the series of course.

What do you mean by "if"? There's no plausible future in which he ever finishes them.

@timmarchman.bsky.social The most correct take of all time

The books got progressively worse anyway…

Good!

Shot by a canon maybe.

I’m already writing it. For me of course. Shades of Robert Jordan. And The Wheel of Time.

I'd already concluded a decade ago, despite his occasional protests, that we'd never see another novel in the series. He was enjoying the fame it gave him and spending all his time working on anything but the novel. When you procrastinate that much, it's clear your heart isn't in it anymore.

George needs to refund everyone their preorders.

I mean I get it, it’s his art, he cares about and wants it to remain his. He wants it all outlive him as his creation. At the same time, finishing it has become an unbearable slog. That’s why I’m saying get creative. I bet he’s got the main story almost done and a bunch of POVs completed.

Someone in thigh-high striped socks should take one for the team and should finish that book for George

I can't imagine writing four books in a world I created, having thousands upon thousands of fans who love it, and then just...not finishing it. And then making sure no one will finish it. I want to be charitable, and I know no author owes anyone anything, but all this seems like a real dick move.

The reverse battlestar galactica ending. So many people are dead that they just stop fighting. No truce, no lords. Just death and apathy.

Will we ever learn the point of the Biff character who just appeared in the last book randomly out of nowhere?

That rules

🤣🥹😭

The laugh this made me do, hahaha. A+

Like I personally don't care about GoT. I don't even read the books. But I just really don't get why he's saying he'll finish the book if he won't. Just say you won't. And it makes no sense to me why anyone should care about their IPs after they're dead, you can't care about anything, you're dead...

the BOOK after THAT? that shit is not happening lol

Dunno, I feel like whatever that might be, it would be softer than the last years of his life being relentlessly hounded for the book to come out.

I mean yeah. The fact this is even worth a story is depressing. Some of the greatest stories in literature are unfinsed. Dead Souls, 2666.

After I finish DOTD I’m not giving a shit. The refusal to finish the books will be his legacy

martin goes on to say, “maybe I’ll just die instead, I don’t even care anymore”

It’s ok old timer. You can die now

Nobody cares anymore

ill go a step further, the world would be a better place if he lived forever, saw the last star burn out, and in that time didnt write a single letter of that shit ever again

Won't be the first time a book series doesn't get finished, for one reason or another. Authors don't owe readers books. There's no point complaining about not getting the next book in a series. There are plenty of other extremely excellent authors to read instead. People need to move on already.

Love the language where he's just a passenger in the situation like the rest of us. Who knows if I'll finish Winds of Winter. It's for the gods to decide. Sit down and write the book, you idiot.

I'm glad I read the first two Kingkiller books, even though I may never get to read the third. I would like that third book, though.

Good luck with that.

The irony is I started reading his series (circa 2005) because Robert Jordan was writing too slow. In the time since then Robert Jordan wrote a book, got cancer, died, Brandon Sanderson wrote three books to finish the series and then 12 more years have passed. George has released two books.

Now that Honest Trailer joke about “we really hope he doesn’t eat himself to death before he finishes it” have more meaning.

‘Martin said he would "hate" to give up on the series — though admitted he was still around 1,100 pages in. This figure — 1,110 pages — is one that he's quoted since at least December 2022’ Pretending to be writing a book - just tell people the truth.

It’s not going to be finished in any scenario.

"if" is doing so much heavy lifting here.

A book is what it is. It doesn’t matter if it has the right number of sequels.

hell yeah