In our ongoing efforts to fawn over everything in and around the world of The Song of Ice and Fire, on his blog, website, online journal thing entitled “Not A Blog,” George R. R. Martin just revealed the official Game of Thrones poster that accompanies the looming HBO series. And it is, of course, wicked cool, yo.
FREAKING FINALLY. I am probably not the only one to finish reading A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin and be just slightly upset that it really was only half the story he wanted to tell. But now we know when the fifth (and final?) book in the Song of Ice & Fire series – A Dance with Dragons – will release. Or in George’s words:
Yes, I know. You’ve all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009. None of those were ever hard dates, however. Most of them… well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.
This date is different. This date is real.
OH MAN! And just because I can, I will be a total jerk and make you click-through to find the actual date!
Today I’m going to be talking about a series that we’ve discussed before on the show in brief. Well, more accurately, I talked about the first book during Episode 80, back in the day. The series in question is George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire.
As mentioned on the show, this series is not for the feint of heart. I’ve currently read three and a half of these novels (I’m 300 pages from finishing the fourth book), which comes to the sum total of roughly 2,600 pages. From what I understand, the series originally started in seven parts, with Martin currently writing the fifth installment, but we shall see how it all ends up. It’s very interesting for me to be reading a series that is so well established that also has years and years to go before finishing. I am reminded of Steven King’s Gunslinger series, which has seven novels that took upwards of two decades to complete. I really hope that is not the case here, but only time will tell. Read more…
