Fantasy author George R. R. Martin has told his UK publisher he might hand over A Dance with Dragons, the long-awaited next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, “soon”.
Writing on her own site, Jane Johnson, fiction publishing director for the HarperCollins Voyager imprint in the UK, said:
“And finally, yesterday I got to spend some time with the legendary George RR Martin, over in the UK to visit the sets where HBO are filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES, which could be the finest ever tv fantasy epic.
We have his superb anthology tribute to Jack Vance out this month: the signing queues went round and round the block in Belfast, Dublin and London’s Forbidden Planet. Oddly, in that strange synchronicity which happens so frequently in my life, George flew out of London for Marrakech this morning, to see the desert and Dothraki scenes being filmed in and around Ouarzazate.
The really exciting news, other than the potential HBO series, is that we might get the long-awaited DANCE OF DRAGONS soon. I cannot wait.”
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.
In October Martin revealed he had written more than 1,100 pages in the book. It was previously expected the book would be ready for editing by October or November this year.
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I have pretty much given up waiting for this one :) A Dance with Dragons will be ready when it is ready, and that’s about all I’m expecting.
(via Westeros.org and Tower of the Hand)
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8 Responses to GRRM to finish A Dance with Dragons “soon”
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I ordered the book in advance. So some day it will be in the mail.
I think that was probably the best way to do it :)
doing the same thing. what a wonderful surprise it will be to find it in my mail one of these years (I mean… days)! :)
I came across your site as I happen to be reading Gardens of the Moon myself at the moment (been on my shelf since 1999- whoops!). Have to say this story made me chuckle. Amazon has an autumn publication date for Dance of Dragons- the latest one that will be missed by months/years.
I really like GRRM’s Ice and fire series.
But I can’t shake an odd Duke Nukem feeling about the “soon”.
Well Duke Nukem is shortly to be published — so you may have to eat your words ;)
Fair enough.
So the question becomes “will be Ice & Fire finished within his lifetime ?”
LOL. Just linked to this aricle from one dated Jan 2011 about how upset GRR himself is about the delays. Soon indeed.