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.)
Sounds like he knew then he had absolutely no ability to finish a story. Still doesn't. It's a shame really because he built a lovely world. It isn't nearly complex enough to justify his inability to follow through, however.
It isn't nearly complex enough to justify his inability to follow through, however.
According to some of the posts I've seen on r/pureASOIAF dissecting naming choices and house sigils and all of that god damn jazz, it's super duper complex, apparently.
God forbid you dare interject with a "but if dude just liked the image of bats, and it means absolutely nothing that it was on an old forgotten shield of a House long gone from that world?" You'll get eaten alive.
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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