Tired ? George R.R. Martinhas no pages . Wired ? George R.R. Martin has all the pages .
The ongoing , fantastically lengthy waitress for the next chapter in Martin ’s sprawl A Song of Ice and Fire series has perhaps step up latterly with the advent ofGame of Thrones ’ final season going … some places . But it become even weirder than it commonly does — yr of wait will do that to an ASOIAF lover — this workweek thanks to a sincerely bonkers rumor from an evenly absurd source : Ser Barristan Selmy , one of the most estimable knights in all the Seven Kingdoms .
Well , not Selmy specifically , but Ian McElhinney , who played the former Kingsguard turned right hand man of Daenerys Targaryen ( turned , err , corpse ) across the first five seasons of Game of Thrones . Speaking at Epic Con in Russia late last month , McElhinney drop a bizarre thunderclap seemingly out of nowhere , claim that not only has Martin already wind up The Winds of Winter , the long - awaited sixth book in the ASOIAF series , but he ’s also complete its continuation , A dreaming of Spring , which is meant to be the last chapter of the saga .
How COULD you, Ser Barristan!?Image: HBO
According to McElhinney — who was discuss Selmy ’s adapted role in the show liken to the Word — the books have not been expel because Martin has a secret pact with HBO to only resign his version of the taradiddle ’s terminal after Game of Thrones has come to a determination . If this were true , it would ’ve meant an close at hand surprise drib , given we ’re about to witness theshow ’s final endthis Sunday :
George has already written book 6 and 7 , and as far as he ’s concerned there only are seven Holy Scripture . But he struck an understanding with David and Dan , the showrunners on the serial , that he would not issue the terminal two books until the serial has make out . So if all locomote well , in another month or two we might get Books 6 and 7 , and I ’m intrigued to recognize how Barristan , for instance , ends up run through those terminal two books . George , I talked to him during Season 1 and he did say to me that Barristan had a very interesting journey . But unfortunately I did n’t get to play all of that , so we ’ll have to wait and see .
McElhinney ’s cursory bombshell plump unnoticed for a few weeks , but when it gaze being pick up online yesterday , Martin stepped in viahis humble abodeon the Internet , the Not A Blog , to dispel the claim :
All of a sudden this crazy chronicle about my eat up The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring days ago is drink down up everywhere . No , I am not going to allow inter-group communication . I do n’t want to reward purveyor of misinformation with hit .
I will , however , say for the record — no , The steer of Winter and A Dream of Spring are not finished . Dream is not even begun ; I am not going to start drop a line book seven until I cease volume six .
It seems absurd to me that I necessitate to state this . The world is rotund , the Earth revolves around the sun , water is wet … do I call for to say that too ? It boggles me that anyone would trust this storey , even for an instant . It makes not a shred of signified . Why would I sit around for years on complete novels ? Why would my publishers — not just here in the US , but all around the humanity — ever consent to this ? They make millions and jillion of dollar every fourth dimension a new Ice & Fire book comes out , as do I. Delaying makes no mother wit . Why would HBO want the Book delayed ? The books help create interest in the show , just as the show produce interest in the books .
So , there you have it . One whirlwind rumor frenzy afterward , and all we have is what we ’ve already known for a while — the response is that Martin has in fact some page , and will continue to add to that count as he march ever closer to finishing his epic fib .
Well , that and we now know that Barristan Selmy is perhaps not quite the most respectable valet de chambre in the Seven Kingdoms any more .
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