We have some thrilling information – George RR Martin is formally underway on a brand new undertaking! That’s proper, it’s the one we’ve all been ready for: a feature-length adaptation of the works of Howard Waldrop! Oh, that’s now what you needed to listen to? Well, George RR Martin is aware of this, and he’s lashing out at followers who’re demanding they offer them what they need.
George RR Martin took to his weblog, Not a Blog (see – the man’s an excellent author), to deal with fan expectations, particularly in how they hate when he places any deal with something different than The Winds of Winter. As he put it, “I know, I know. Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or THE WINDS OF WINTER. You have given up on me, or on the book. I will never finish WINDS, If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. If I do, it won’t be any good. I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago. I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS and OLD VENUS and ROGUES and WARRIORS and DANGEROUS WOMEN and all the opposite anthologies I edited with my good friend Gardner Dozois, You don’t care about any of these, I do know. You don’t care about something however WINDS OF WINTER. You’ve advised me so typically sufficient”.
George RR Martin went on to insist that he does in truth nonetheless care about all of his characters, saying followers do not know simply how a lot ardour he holds for his A Song of Ice and Fire world. But is that basically going to carry his followers over? Long have they nagged and complained and wielded swords to get Martin to complete The Winds of Winter, the deliberate sixth ebook within the collection that we’ll realistically most likely by no means get. But do they actually assume that’s going to get Martin to take a seat down and churn out one other chapter? OK, most likely…
Whether followers prefer it or not (they don’t), George RR Martin has devoted his share of time to the works of Howard Waldrop, additionally serving as producer on a group of shorts which have turned up at movie festivals.