George RR Martin has offered his latest update on the next entry in his A Song of Ice and Fire series,The Winter Winds. The latest news comes from Not A Blog of Martin, where he said on Friday that the ending he sees to his books has changed a lot from the series finale.Game of Thrones da HBO .
Martin has said in the past that the end of his book series will likely be quite different from the end of the show, but he’s never said that as definitively and clearly as he has in this new post.
Throughout the post, he describes his writing process as something like gardening, taking care of history, and seeing where it grows. This also leads him to explain where he sees it growing now:
“What I’ve noticed more and more lately, however, is that my gardening is taking me further and further away from the television series. Yes, some of the things you saw on HBO inGame of Thronesyou will also see inThe Winds of Winter(though maybe not in the same way)…but much of the rest will be quite different.”
He goes on to call this change inevitable, largely because the books are bigger and more complicated than the series could ever be. There are dozens and dozens more characters in A Song of Ice and Fire than in the HBO series, along with many points of a few characters and many characters that have very different forms in the novels — including fan-favorite Euron Greyjoy, who Martin says to be: “way, way, way, different way” in his version of the story.
George R.R. Martin explains:
“One thing I can say, in general enough terms not to spoil anything, is that not every character who survives to the end ofGame of Throneswill survive until the end of A Song of Ice and Fire, and not all characters who died inGame of Throneswill die in A Song of Ice and Fire. (Some will, for sure. Sure. Maybe most. But definitely not all) ((Of course, I might change my mind again next week, with the next chapter I write. That’s gardening)).”
This big departure should be welcome news for ardent fans of Martin’s novels and fans of the HBO series who were disappointed at the end. While minor departures have always been assumed (and, again, often confirmed by Martin himself), this latest update means fans will have a reason to return to the story with the promise of a very different – and hopefully more satisfying – ending to the cards.
Martin doesn’t offer updates on The Winds of Winter often, in part because he says he doesn’t want to spoil the story. While he has yet to announce when he will release this latest book, we know he’s been working on it sinceThe Dance of the Dragonsit was published in 2011. We also know from what he said that he rebooted bits of the book a few times.
Once The Winds of Winter is out, Martin has one more book to finish his planned seven-book arc for A Song of Ice and Fire. Alongside his work on The Winds of Winter, Martin is also producing several spinoff series.de Game of Thronesfor HBO, as well as working on a few additional books in the A Song of Ice and Fire universe.
This article is a translation of the writing by Austen Goslin to the website Polygon.
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