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George RR Martin Finishes A Dance With Dragons
Lil'wombat writes "George RR Martin has completed his long awaited conclusion to the A Song of Ice and Fire series. A Dance with Dragons will be published on July 12, 2011. Let the celebrations begin! And everyone was worried that he was going to pull a Jordan."
First Duke Nukem Forever and now this.
The first LINE of TFA says " No. Sorry. Not done yet."
How the hell do you go from that to "hey it's done!"?
I mean come on. Even for Slashdot this is retarded.
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Mod parent up. Seriously, he'll be lucky if he finishes this before he reaches his 80's. If he spent the same effort actually writing the Song of Ice & Fire books that he puts into writing his blog everyday, the thing would be done already. These books are the best fantasy-fiction I have ever read (although a bit dark), but these books are super low on the author's priority list.. He even went so far as to tear into his fans on his blog, saying he doesn't owe us anything... I think we'll be LUCKY if he pulls a Jordan (that is to say, leaves enough outline and material for a follow-on author to finish the story after he dies)... I think it is FAR more likely that this will be the last book that we see in the series, leaving this really amazing series stranded.
Each processor would proceed sequentially as if it had been better for them not to rise against Saul.
... you don't think it's clear that, at that point in writing the series, Goodkind read him some Ayn Rand and thought it was the most genius shit ever?
I mean, Jagang is instantly transformed from being a badass conquerer who wants to break your spirit and take everything from you just because he's such a badass and can to... a guy who wants to bring communism to the world. That completely pisses on the characterization of the major antagonist of the series. Faith of the Fallen isn't just a bad, unoriginal book, it's in that "Highlander 2" special echelon of being a sequel so bad, it actually ruins the good entries in the series before it.