If you appreciate George R.R. Martin’s series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire more than its TV adaptation Game of Thrones, then we have some bad news for you. The sixth book in the series, titled The Winds of Winter, won’t be coming out soon since Martin is having difficulties with writing it.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 70-year-old author talked about the current status of The Winds of Winter, which was announced in 2011, and admitted that he is “struggling” with finishing the novel.
“I’ve been struggling with it for a few years,” Martin explained. “‘The Winds of Winter’ is not so much a novel as a dozen novels, each with a different protagonist, each having a different cast of supporting players and antagonists and allies and lovers around them, and all of these weaving together in an extremely complex fashion. So it’s very, very challenging.”
After the fifth GoT book was published in 2011, George R.R. Martin said that it would take him “three years to finish the next one at a good pace” alluding to The Winds of Winter. Since then, Martin gave occasional updates about the progress of the book but declined to give a timeline. As it stands now, the novel won’t be out at least before 2019.
HBO’s TV show Game of Thrones, on the other hands, is close to wrapping up since the eighth and final season will be aired in the first half of 2019.
