(Spoiler Alert) Two books left

[garion77]

The 100 pages is mostly material he moved from ADWD. He said that he's planning on starting the real work on TWOW in January. I hope he can wrap it up in two books, but I'm now skeptical. He has close to 30 open plotlines to deal with. Maybe a war with The Others or a greyscale epidemic courtesy of Cniington will thin the herd a bit. It actually might not be a bad idea for him to go back to his original plan of a time gap between books. A couple of years would do it, maybe even just 1.

That would be very disappointing if he had a mass killing from grayscale or the Others... But I don't see how he going to do it in two books... Maybe he can pull it off if he don't describe everything in everyone's plate... And we don't have to read about how spicy the seasoned beef is today... Or how horny Dany is or how bad her feet hurt in golden sanders...

If the other books are like ADWD, he will need about 20 more books to finish... But at least everyone will be master cooks and fashion Gods...

 

[Timba]

GRRM has never said that. maybe you're thinking of a different GRRM?

He's written 3 prequel novells to date- The Hedge knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight. He has never said anything that would indicate that he's stopping at the third one.

Just as an fyi, the 3 novellas tell stories about a hedge knight named Duncan the Tall and his squire, a bou named Egg. I recommend reading them, as they give information not found in the main series, and are good stories.

Wow, was not even aware of these, thanks for the tip. I checked and the first two are strictly hardcopy and as near as I can tell The Myster Knight is part of his Warriors anthology. I may have to break my no more hard copy books rule and see if my bulging bookshelves can handle a couple of more books. The anthology is in e-book format so that will be no problem and besides it has several other authors I really enjoy so I can't really go wrong on that. I will need to get myself to the half price bookstore I suspect and see if I get lucky.

 

[Needle]

Wow, was not even aware of these, thanks for the tip. I checked and the first two are strictly hardcopy and as near as I can tell The Myster Knight is part of his Warriors anthology. I may have to break my no more hard copy books rule and see if my bulging bookshelves can handle a couple of more books. The anthology is in e-book format so that will be no problem and besides it has several other authors I really enjoy so I can't really go wrong on that. I will need to get myself to the half price bookstore I suspect and see if I get lucky.

I just recently purchased Warriors (amazon 5.95 I think) and highly recommend it! I bought it for the Mystery Knight but was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the stories as a whole. There are 2-3 I thought were pretty weird but many of them were excellent! My already overcrowded bookshelves are happily groaning under the weight of 1 more!

 

[TK-421]

Oh yee of little faith...

 

[The Imp]

Wow, was not even aware of these, thanks for the tip. I checked and the first two are strictly hardcopy and as near as I can tell The Myster Knight is part of his Warriors anthology. I may have to break my no more hard copy books rule and see if my bulging bookshelves can handle a couple of more books. The anthology is in e-book format so that will be no problem and besides it has several other authors I really enjoy so I can't really go wrong on that. I will need to get myself to the half price bookstore I suspect and see if I get lucky.

I was able to find the first two as audiobboks in larger anthologies. One was all GRRM, and it was called Dreamsongs. Some of the other stories were also quite good, the other was Legends (I think).

BTW, I "corrected" a poster (too lazy to check whom) about GRRM and prequels. GRRM has in fact said that he won't be writing any, so I guess the Hedge Knight stories aren't prequels, at least not according to the way in which he defines them.

 

[Timba]

I was able to find the first two as audiobboks in larger anthologies. One was all GRRM, and it was called Dreamsongs. Some of the other stories were also quite good, the other was Legends (I think).

BTW, I "corrected" a poster (too lazy to check whom) about GRRM and prequels. GRRM has in fact said that he won't be writing any, so I guess the Hedge Knight stories aren't prequels, at least not according to the way in which he defines them.

Thanks. I bit the bullet and bought the Warriors as an e-book which got me The Mystery Knight and what looks like some fun reading from a number of other authors also and Legends II as an e-book which gave me The Sworn Sword and Dreamsongs II for The Hedge Knight. Good thing my birthday is next month and I can claim early self gifting, that is my story and I am sticking to it if my better half asks! I think I better concentrate on emptying my to be read pile of hard copy books for awhile now and put a hold on new purchases, geez, I am compulsive.

 

[Timba]

I just recently purchased Warriors (amazon 5.95 I think) and highly recommend it! I bought it for the Mystery Knight but was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the stories as a whole. There are 2-3 I thought were pretty weird but many of them were excellent! My already overcrowded bookshelves are happily groaning under the weight of 1 more!

Thanks for the positive review. Helped motivate me to go ahead and spend the money but I went the e-book route on all 3, really, really do not have bookshelf space left. Oddly my better half is resistant to adding a 7th full bookcase I have committed to giving away as much as possible so we can regain some living space but there are an awful lot of series I do not want to part with and that makes it difficult. E-books to the rescue at least for new purchases.

 

[Needle]

Thanks for the positive review. Helped motivate me to go ahead and spend the money but I went the e-book route on all 3, really, really do not have bookshelf space left. Oddly my better half is resistant to adding a 7th full bookcase I have committed to giving away as much as possible so we can regain some living space but there are an awful lot of series I do not want to part with and that makes it difficult. E-books to the rescue at least for new purchases.

I too always say I'm gonna give some of my books to good homes and never quite accomplish it!

As Old Nan says old stories are like old friends, you have to visit them once in awhile! Give them up, never!

 

[Werthead]

Well, you have to realise that there are already pro-Targaryen forces in Westeros, as you yourself pointed out. I believe that this already goes a long way towards resolving the plot. Because I feel that Varys' words are true: That in the end, the common people will join the Targaryens again since they're sick and tired of the war. Say what you want, but not once was the entire realm at war in Aerys 2's time, save for the rebellion.

There was the Defiance of Duskendale, which was pretty bloody. However, that was very limited in scope to just Duskendale and the surrounding area, not the entire realm.

That's about a tenth of the way done!

That's 100 manuscript pages, not pages as they pan out in the book. ADWD was 1,520 manuscript pages, so assuming that TWoW comes in around the same, he's only about one-fifteenth done

GRRM has in fact said that he won't be writing any, so I guess the Hedge Knight stories aren't prequels, at least not according to the way in which he defines them.

A prequel is a story that directly ties in with a pre-existing story at an earlier timeframe, not just a story set in the same world at a different time. So if GRRM wrote a story about Robert's Rebellion, that would be a prequel, since it sets up so much of ASoIaF itself. Dunk and Egg ties in with the main series much more tangentially. The only 'prequel' story in the Dunk and Egg tales is likely to be the last one:

Spoiler

Which will allegedly be set in Summerhall on the night of Rhaegar Targaryen's birth.

GRRM has also said he wants to write a first-person novel from the POV of Aegon IV, the worst king in the history of the Westeros (who wasn't insane), after the main series is complete.

 

[shugry]

I wish you all well in your search for the eventual outcome of this series.

At the rate new episodes are introduced, some of us may not be around to find out.

Unless of course winter comes.

 

[Timba]

I wish you all well in your search for the eventual outcome of this series.

At the rate new episodes are introduced, some of us may not be around to find out.

Unless of course winter comes.

This thought has crossed my mind also but I refuse to countenance it. I am going to outlive the ******* and see the end of this series if its the last thing I...........hmmm, let me rephrase. I am hopeful.