Winter is probably no longer coming for “A Song of Ice and Fire” series fans.
rge R. R. Martin, author of the fantasy novel series that led to the wildly popular “Game of Thrones” television series, wrote on his blog Wednesday that the sixth book, “The Winds of Winter,” will likely not be completed.
“I will never finish WINDS,” Martin wrote.”If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING,” referring to what would have been the series’ seventh book.
Martin said he “lost all interest” in the series that has been out on shelves since 1996 with the its first installment, “A Game of Thrones.”
He explained that while he does care about the unfinished sixth novel and the franchise’s characters, he also has a passion for the rest of his work that he believes his fans “don’t care about.”
Martin called out a few short stories he wrote long before “A Game of Thrones,” such as “A Song for Lya” and “This Tower of Ashes,” in addition to compilations of short stories that he edited more recently, like the 2013 cross-genre anthology “Dangerous Women.”
The 77-year-old author cynically wrote he is “going to die soon anyway” and does not “give a s— about writing any longer.”
Martin recently signed on with Lion Forge Entertainment to adapt Howard Waldrop’s 1989 novella “A Dozen Tough Jobs” — his take on the Twelve Labors of Hercules — into an animated feature, news the author credited The Hollywood Reporter with breaking on May 21.
“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,” the author wrote when announcing the screen adaptation of his late friend’s work.
“It saddens me that he did not live long enough to see the film; I hope we do him justice,” Martin wrote.
