“The Winds of Winter” Rumor Mill Going Into Overdrive
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“The waiting is the hardest part” ' Tom Petty
Game of Thrones Season six is over. Game of Thrones Season seven is so far away from us right now that even filming hasn`t earnestly kicked into gear—no one is flying to Belfast for table reads yet, and the casting reports have only just begun (and most of them are, let`s face it, not all that major.) In fact, our only real news we have is that filming for some scenes is still six months out.
So what do fans do? They embark speculating about the books.
Last year, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin still had it sort of effortless. The showcase hadn`t caught up to him yet. Albeit his every stir was scrutinized, most fans were still expecting that an announcement regarding The Winds of Winter, the next book in his series, wouldn`t come until closer to Christmas….or the Fresh Year….or the debut of Season 6. We could wait.
And then on Fresh Year`s Day we learned the truth—The Winds of Winter wasn`t coming. Or at least, it wasn`t coming before Game of Thrones Season 6. And for a few months, Martin got a respite. After all, the book wasn`t coming until after Season six was over. For another six months, we all stopped asking.
But now Season six is over, and fans have literally nothing to divert them. And that`s how wild book rumors get embarked.
Two of those rumors caught fire over the weekend. The very first, which comes courtesy of The Independent, is that Martin will not go after the normal protocols of releasing a insanely popular book. Instead one of the few appearances on his two thousand sixteen calendar, WorldCon (which he loves to attend every year) will somehow coincide with the surprise release of the novel. The chances of that are next to nil, of course, as that would not only cause minor riots, but prevent pre-orders from such outlets like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, which depend on such things for their quarterly profits. This year`s WorldCon will be held on August 17-21, meaning that, in order for this rumor to come to fruition, Martin would have to already be done, or very almost so.
The other, even more very unlikely rumor is that Martin will release both The Winds of Winter and A Fantasy of Spring at the same time, and that`s what the hold up is. Let`s embark with the fact that it 100% overlooks Martin`s own words to us—that he truly just isn`t getting The Winds of Winter done that rapid, and there is no other hold up except that. Then let`s budge on to the secondary level of wish fulfillment going on here: that we won`t have to wait just as long for A Wish of Spring.
The fact is, Wonkblog already ran the numbers on this back in January, and if one plots Martin`s writing speed, extrapolated from the speed with which he has written the very first five novels, The Winds of Winter isn`t going to be finished this year at all. At best, it will be finished in 2017.
The Winds of Winter – Rumor Mill Going Into Overdrive
“The Winds of Winter” Rumor Mill Going Into Overdrive
(Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Pictures)
“The waiting is the hardest part” ' Tom Petty
Game of Thrones Season six is over. Game of Thrones Season seven is so far away from us right now that even filming hasn`t gravely kicked into gear—no one is flying to Belfast for table reads yet, and the casting reports have only just begun (and most of them are, let`s face it, not all that major.) In fact, our only real news we have is that filming for some scenes is still six months out.
So what do fans do? They embark speculating about the books.
Last year, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin still had it sort of effortless. The demonstrate hadn`t caught up to him yet. Albeit his every stir was scrutinized, most fans were still expecting that an announcement regarding The Winds of Winter, the next book in his series, wouldn`t come until closer to Christmas….or the Fresh Year….or the debut of Season 6. We could wait.
And then on Fresh Year`s Day we learned the truth—The Winds of Winter wasn`t coming. Or at least, it wasn`t coming before Game of Thrones Season 6. And for a few months, Martin got a respite. After all, the book wasn`t coming until after Season six was over. For another six months, we all stopped asking.
But now Season six is over, and fans have literally nothing to divert them. And that`s how wild book rumors get began.
Two of those rumors caught fire over the weekend. The very first, which comes courtesy of The Independent, is that Martin will not go after the normal protocols of releasing a insanely popular book. Instead one of the few appearances on his two thousand sixteen calendar, WorldCon (which he loves to attend every year) will somehow coincide with the surprise release of the novel. The chances of that are next to nil, of course, as that would not only cause minor riots, but prevent pre-orders from such outlets like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, which depend on such things for their quarterly profits. This year`s WorldCon will be held on August 17-21, meaning that, in order for this rumor to come to fruition, Martin would have to already be done, or very almost so.
The other, even more very unlikely rumor is that Martin will release both The Winds of Winter and A Fantasy of Spring at the same time, and that`s what the hold up is. Let`s commence with the fact that it 100% disregards Martin`s own words to us—that he indeed just isn`t getting The Winds of Winter done that quick, and there is no other hold up except that. Then let`s budge on to the secondary level of wish fulfillment going on here: that we won`t have to wait just as long for A Wish of Spring.
The fact is, Wonkblog already ran the numbers on this back in January, and if one plots Martin`s writing speed, extrapolated from the speed with which he has written the very first five novels, The Winds of Winter isn`t going to be finished this year at all. At best, it will be finished in 2017.