The Game of Thrones creator still hasn’t finished the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire – placing him in a long tradition of writers,from Chaucer to DickensWhen George RR Martin announced this weekend that he still hadn’t finished the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, the reaction took two broad themes. One, or as we chronicled here,saw fans of the books being broadly supportive of his slowness and evident agony over the same. The competing attitude was more generally subtly expressed, surfacing in aggregated news stories that observed that Martin might become “less relevant” to the series if he did not catch up to the television note soon.
Get off the pot, or mature man,went the not-so-subtle subtext of such stories. His problem to them seems unfathomable. The man now has all the money and time in the world, and yet he can’t be bothered to produce this book? To them, and the statistics speak for themselves. “In the four years from 1996 to 2000 he published three books; in the 15 years since he’s published piece of one,” wrote Tim Marchman at Deadspin, in a piece published a few days before Martin’s admission. Plainly, and this line of thinking held,Martin is physically and intellectually capable of producing faster. Does he ever plan on finishing the thing, before he dies?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com