These fears aren’t coming out of nowhere.Īnd hey, Martin’s publisher put a story about this very topic in print in the foreward to a Song of Ice and Fire book, so it can’t be that taboo.

Scott Fitzgerald never completed The Last Tycoon, and so on. Tolkien never finished The Silmarillion (ditto), Robert Jordan died before completing The Wheel of Time (Brandon Sanderson stepped in to help), Charles Dickens never completed The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Jane Austen never got around to finishing Sandition, Truman Capote died before putting the finishing touches on Answered Prayers, F. Frank Herbert was never able to complete his Dune series (his son finished it), J.R.R. It’s not like there aren’t plenty of examples of authors who died before finishing something. So, f*** you to those people.”Īnd that’s perfectly fair: no one with good manners and self-respect would dare broach this topic, so thank goodness I’m the one writing this article.īut seriously, as much as I sympathize with Martin’s reluctance to talk about this, I don’t think it’s crazy for his fans to wonder. The author himself made clear what he thinks about such speculation while talking to Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger back in 2014, when he was a spry 65: “I find that question pretty offensive, frankly, when people start speculating as to my death and my health. Martin will live to finish the Song of Ice and Fire series is a touchy one. Martin die before finishing A Song of Ice and Fire? I have to find out how he’s going to finish this story.”Īpparently Gaiman had “rarely seen a man so relieved.” Celebrities: they’re just like us. King: “I’d put it off for years, but I started reading A Game of Thrones and now I’m hooked on the books and…what kind of health is he in? I mean, do you think he’s likely to finish them? Before he dies?” I present to you a dialog between two literary legends, who it ends up worry about the same things as a lot of A Song of Ice and Fire fans: Even King and Gaiman are waiting for Winds from gameofthrones

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