The Winds of Winter publishing date guesses?

At the rate things are going with the show, the next 2 seasons will cover books 4 and 5. That means that spring of 2016 will be when the end of ADWD is on the screen. If Winds of Winter comes out in 2016 then the show would cover it in 2017, meaning that by the 2018 season the show will catch him.

To be honest, I want to read the 6th and 7th book before I see it on tv but at the rate things are going I will accept seeing it on the screen if that's the only way I am ever going to get to see it.
 
Reivax26 said:
To be honest, I want to read the 6th and 7th book before I see it on tv but at the rate things are going I will accept seeing it on the screen if that's the only way I am ever going to get to see it.
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I've not yet decided. Right now, I'm seriously considering finding ways to isolate myself from the world between HBO Season Six and the release of A Dream of Spring. I'm not joking. Maybe I could go back to work in Taiwan... immerse myself in another culture and language... go cold turkey on the internet... Or mayhaps I could just get lucky and avoid all talk of the ending... Hey, it worked for the Sopranos... I've still never watched the final season nor have I learned what happened... Of course, I'd have to dump most of my friends in Denver... I really don't want to see the ending on HBO before I can read it.
 
Boaz said:
I've not yet decided. Right now, I'm seriously considering finding ways to isolate myself from the world between HBO Season Six and the release of A Dream of Spring. I'm not joking. Maybe I could go back to work in Taiwan... immerse myself in another culture and language... go cold turkey on the internet... Or mayhaps I could just get lucky and avoid all talk of the ending... Hey, it worked for the Sopranos... I've still never watched the final season nor have I learned what happened... Of course, I'd have to dump most of my friends in Denver... I really don't want to see the ending on HBO before I can read it.
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I dropped the TV Show (didn't like the 4th season anyway) and threatened everyone who might spoil me with slow and painful death. I'll just stay away from anything TV Show related. xD
 
Okay... let us all band together and leave for... Antarctica. What kind of job opening do they have there?
 
It's surprisingly easy to avoid spoilers. I read a lot of blogs and sites that have articles about the show. I never read the articles so if I didn't know already what happens I would never know. There was a bit of an uproar after the Red Wedding episode but even then I never ran across any overt spoilers....just that something big had happened.

My wife and I didn't get into Breaking Bad until about two weeks before the finale. Even though we binge watched the series we still didn't get to the finale until about 4 months after it aired. During that entire time I never knew how it ended. I didn't know a single detail about any part of the series while we watched it even though most of the episodes had been out for years by then!

It's really pretty easy to avoid spoilers so you guys really shouldn't worry too much. Simply avoid any articles that mention ASOIAF. That will mean never doing Google searches for anything involving the series and will definitely mean leaving a site like this in which spoilers are not only rampant but expected (how else would we discuss the series?). The biggest risk might be social media. I have something like 220 friends on Facebook yet still never got any spoilers for Breaking Bad or The Sopranos or any other "major" television event. You guys can do it!
 
After he has written the 6th book George may just decide this tv malarkey is a lot simpler to write/co-write and just leave the last parts for the tv series :-O He will be about 67 when he is to start writing book 7..

Hmm I just noticed that he wrote The Sandkings, an Outer Limits double episode. Greatest TV ever!
 
Judderman said:
After he has written the 6th book George may just decide this tv malarkey is a lot simpler to write/co-write and just leave the last parts for the tv series :-O He will be about 67 when he is to start writing book 7..
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I don't think he will. He said he considers the show to be separate from the books and the differences have become too large to overcome due to butterfly effect IMO. I think he'll tell it the way he intended to tell it, through books.
 
viZion said:
It's surprisingly easy to avoid spoilers. I read a lot of blogs and sites that have articles about the show. I never read the articles so if I didn't know already what happens I would never know. There was a bit of an uproar after the Red Wedding episode but even then I never ran across any overt spoilers....just that something big had happened.

My wife and I didn't get into Breaking Bad until about two weeks before the finale. Even though we binge watched the series we still didn't get to the finale until about 4 months after it aired. During that entire time I never knew how it ended. I didn't know a single detail about any part of the series while we watched it even though most of the episodes had been out for years by then!

It's really pretty easy to avoid spoilers so you guys really shouldn't worry too much. Simply avoid any articles that mention ASOIAF. That will mean never doing Google searches for anything involving the series and will definitely mean leaving a site like this in which spoilers are not only rampant but expected (how else would we discuss the series?). The biggest risk might be social media. I have something like 220 friends on Facebook yet still never got any spoilers for Breaking Bad or The Sopranos or any other "major" television event. You guys can do it!
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I sure hope you're right, but I would rather not leave this forum. the next book should be out by the time the show catches up. I mean, the show will overtake the books by book 7, but book 6 should be safe, and I am sure we will all be reading and rereading the 6th book around the same time that the show has actually overtaken us, so we will all be posting new crackpot theories and discussing how awesome Howland Reed is while the show is still plugging along, showing things that have yet to happen in the books. so, I have this to say.

People discussing the TV series better stick to their own damn Forum!

dammit!
 
viZion said:
Hahahaha...

George R.R. Martin: **** You If You Think I Won't Finish the Series
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Well George, **** you for this then:

“My plan is to finish in seven, but my original plan was to finish in three. I write the stories and they grow. I deal with certain things and sometimes I find myself not at the end of a story.”

You watched what happened to Robert Jordan and the WoT and still let yourself fall into the same trap of being unwilling to edit yourself and avoid chasing down every side plot that occurs to you? The trouble with these series is the authors get bored of their main characters, feel the pressure of having their resolutions live up to previous standards, and wind up dithering through endless detours to put off the ending, knowing it's never going to please everyone and probably not even most. I don't necessarily blame them for it, because they're damned if they do, damned if they don't in a lot of ways, but I can't help thinking at a certain point there's too much ego and not enough trust or willingness to work with an editor.
 
I can see why he would be insulted that people are calling his health into question, but It might be worth him thinking about. Personally, I would rather just hope that he finishes the series soon (not that he will) but as the author, he must have thought about what would happen should he not be able to finish for any reason. I would think that anyone who is puching 70 would have at least thought about creating a Will and testament so he should have considered the question, but again, I understand why he would be offended. His helth and welbeing are of nobodies concern except him and his family's, and it rather selfish of a fan of his work to be saying "you better finnish this series before you die".
 
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