{"id":143951,"date":"2025-05-31T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/george-rr-martin-rails-against-fans-who-bash-him\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T21:34:12","slug":"george-rr-martin-rails-in-opposition-to-fans-who-bash-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/george-rr-martin-rails-in-opposition-to-fans-who-bash-him\/","title":{"rendered":"George RR Martin rails in opposition to \u201cfans\u201d who bash him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We have some thrilling information \u2013 George RR Martin is formally underway on a brand new undertaking! That\u2019s proper, it\u2019s the one we\u2019ve all been ready for: a feature-length adaptation of the works of Howard Waldrop! Oh, that\u2019s now what you needed to listen to? Well, George RR Martin is aware of this, and he\u2019s lashing out at followers who&#8217;re demanding they offer them what they need.<\/p>\n<p>George RR Martin took to his weblog, <a href=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2025\/05\/28\/howard-meets-hercules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Not a Blog<\/a> (see \u2013 the man\u2019s an excellent author), to deal with fan expectations, particularly in how th<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/george-r-r-martin-meets-the-de-extinct-dire-wolves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ey hate when he places any deal with something <em>different<\/em><\/a> than <em>The Winds of Winter<\/em>. As he put it, <mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u201cI know, I know.\u00a0 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. \u00a0 You have given up on me, or on the book.\u00a0 I will never finish WINDS,\u00a0 If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. \u00a0 If I do, it won\u2019t be any good.\u00a0 I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me\u2026 \u00a0 \u00a0 I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. \u00a0 I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago.\u00a0 I don\u2019t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. \u00a0 I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. \u00a0 You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, \u201cA Song for Lya\u201d and DYING OF THE LIGHT, \u201cSandkings\u201d and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,\u00a0 \u201cThis Tower of Ashes\u201d and \u201cThe Stone City,\u201d 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, \u00a0 You don\u2019t care about any of these, I do know. \u00a0 You don\u2019t care about something however WINDS OF WINTER.\u00a0 You\u2019ve advised me so typically sufficient\u201d.<\/mark><\/p>\n<p>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 <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> 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 <em>The Winds of Winter<\/em>, the deliberate sixth ebook within the collection that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-winds-of-winter-the-curse-of-his-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we&#8217;ll realistically most likely by no means get<\/a>. But do they actually assume that\u2019s going to get Martin to take a seat down and churn out one other chapter? OK, most likely\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Whether followers prefer it or not (they don\u2019t), 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] We have some thrilling information \u2013 George RR Martin is formally underway on a brand new undertaking! That\u2019s proper, it\u2019s the one we\u2019ve all been ready for: a feature-length adaptation of the works of Howard Waldrop! Oh, that\u2019s now what you needed to listen to? Well, George RR Martin is aware of this, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1302,96,4303,2089,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-143951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-bash","9":"tag-fans","10":"tag-george","11":"tag-martin","12":"tag-rails"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}