George R. R. Martin has written more than 1,100 pages in A Dance with Dragons, the long-awaited next book in his A Song of Ice and Fire Series.
He had previously hit 1,000 pages in late July, according to his editor, when it was expected the book would be ready for editing by October of November this year. Martin wrote on his blog this week:
“Finished a Jon Snow chapter, and have just passed the 1100 page (manuscript pages, the page count in the final printed book will be different) mark on A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. That’s counting only finished chapters in something close to final form. I have considerably more in partials, fragments, and roughs.
Even with just the finished portions, DANCE is now longer than A FEAST FOR CROWS and A GAME OF THRONES, and I’m closing in on A CLASH OF KINGS. I do hope I can wrap things up before I approach the 1521 page length of A STORM OF SWORDS.”
It is common for fans of the series, one of the major fantasy works currently ongoing, to complain about the length of time taken by Martin to write each new book. Although the first three in the series were published after intervals of about two years each, according to Wikipedia, the fourth book took a little longer; A Feast for Crows came out in 2005 after a five-year writing stint by Martin.
Tired of waiting. Sick of the author and the ‘stringing along’ of his fans.
I agree somewhat with Jacqueline, getting tired of waiting. I’m thinking now that I will need to read at least Feast for Crows when (and if) the Dance comes out just to reaquaint myself with characters.
Stop writing script for a TV series or whatever, tell THEM to wait and finish the series!
well, as a fan of ASOIAF of course i’m eager to read “a dance with dragons”, i love these books and the world martin has created. but i really don’t think getting angry at the author (as many fans across the web are doing) will get them written any sooner – if anything it would discourage martin further. i only hope he doesn’t get tired of the story and of us fans and leaves it unfinished, because it’s a great story and deserves to be whole.
Would it come out somewhere around the end of August, or the beginning of September? Well, ASOIAF is one of the best series I’ve read so far!