At this point I want George R.R. Martin to finish The Winds of Winter less so I can read it and more so I can stop hearing about how he’ll never finish it. I know he’s just as frustrated about the state of his sixth A Song of Ice and Fire novel. He recently got mad online about people who won’t stop bringing it up. But I’m not sure how he’s going to feel about recent comments from another well-known fantasy author. The Witcher‘s Andrzej Sapkowski threw shade at Martin for not completing his book, yet he also defended Martin for why he might be struggling to finish it.
At this year’s Opole Book Festival in Poland, Sapkowski took a little bit of a shot at his fellow author who very famously hasn’t finished The Winds of Winter after many, many, many years. His comments (which we first heard about at Collider) came while Sapkowski discussed writing more books in his series. He recently published his ninth installment and plans to write more. Here’s what he said about actually doing that:
If anyone in the audience asks that kind of question, I’ll tell you right now: I will write something else. Relax. No need to fear. And unlike George R. R. Martin, whom, by the way, I know personally, when I say I’ll write something, I will.
Forget posters online. GRRM is now catching strays all the way from Poland. But Sapkowski wasn’t there to bury his fellow fantasy author. He also tossed in a pretty big defense for why Martin might be struggling to complete his seminal series. The Witcher writer said he “totally” understands what the problem might be. He says it’s because Game of Thrones finished telling Martin’s story before he had the chance. And in his shoes Sapkowski says he might very well be in the same boat.
Because if someone had pulled a stunt like that on me, filming a series based on my books, and then getting ahead of what I intended to write, I’d also be wondering whether there’s any point in writing anymore. If it’s already been done, right? Makes no sense. It’s nice when they adapt your work, that’s the author’s bloody right, but to adapt what doesn’t exist yet, to extrapolate like that? That’s just indecent.
“Indecent” is a very interesting, loaded word. And that’s a pretty reasonable point of view that has extra merit coming from a fewllo, successful author. But……..siiiiiighhhh……..I do have to defend David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for a second. No, not for how they finished Game of Thrones. (I would rather become a White Walker than do that.) I have to defend them because they didn’t plan to get ahead of Martin. A long time ago, he was confident he could finish writing his books before the show caught up to him.
That…..that did not happen. It might never happen. And boy do I wish it would. At least then we could stop talking about if he ever will.
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