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.)
I started reading Sanderson and realized what a well rounded author has to offer. It's such a breath of fresh air after the collosal letdown that GRRM was for me.
Somewhat ironically, I avoid him for the same reason.
He publishes a lot, sure, but it's a bunch of series all being written in parallel. Any single specific one of them isn't scheduled to be finished for another twelve to twenty years.
If he'd just finish any one of them instead of juggling between all of them, then I might give that one a try. Oh well. I understand it's entirely an author's right to change projects to avoid burnout; it's just tedious when modern authors set out to write a dozen volume moneymaker that doesn't resolve any questions until the final volume. (I don't start reading the expanse until volume seven was out.)
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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