George R.R. Martin - Tulen ja jään laulu: Kirjauutisia

after wrestling with it for a month or so, I've decided not to script an episode for season six of GAME OF THRONES. Writing a script takes me three weeks, minimum, and longer when it is not a straight adaptation from the novels. And really, it would cost me more time than that, since I have never been good at changing gears from one medium to another and back again. Writing a season six script would cost me a month's work on WINDS, and maybe as much as six weeks, and I cannot afford that. With David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Bryan Cogman on board, the scriptwriting chores for season six should be well covered. My energies are best devoted to WINDS.

So... back to it.

It is possible that I may withdraw from some other announced appearances later in the year... most likely in the summer and fall... but if I do, it won't be from cons where I am the featured guest of honor. I would prefer not to have to cancel anything, but that depends on how the work is going.

And by "work," I mean WINDS OF WINTER, of course...

I am still editing the latest Wild Cards volume, HIGH STAKES. I have an overall deal with HBO, and three new television concepts in various stages of development, with a variety of collaborators and partners. I am consulting on a couple of videogames. There's the Wild Cards movie at Universal, where I'm a producer. And I've recently formed a new production company to make low budget short films based on a trio of classic short stories by... well, no, not yet, that would be telling. Premature telling.

But please note, most of these other projects involve me editing, producing, consulting, or financing. The writing I'm doing is all on WINDS OF WINTER.

“I wish it was out now. Maybe I’m being overly optimistic about how quickly I can finish. But I canceled two convention appearances, I’m turning down a lot more interviews — anything I can do to clear my decks and get this done.”

“I was red hot on the book and I put it aside for six months” he says. “I was so into it. I was pushing so hard that I was writing very well. I should have just gone on from there, because I was so into it and it was moving so fast then.

JussiMartinin esikoisromaanista Dying of the Light julkaistaan vuoden päästä uusi laitos "SF Masterworks" -sarjassa. Tämä on miehen ensimmäinen kirja, joka saa scifin mestariteoksen statuksen.

I do have ideas for more Tuf stories, and even a novel... but where will I ever find the time to write them?

I do have an idea for a FEVRE DREAM sequel. Again, the issue is finding the time to write it.

Most of the stuff that was cut, though, was Targaryen material. It was extremely detailed accounts of things like the Dance of the Dragons; I mean, I know I published some of that in The Rogue Prince and The Princess and the Queen, but even those two stories, when put together, are severely abridged from the fuller accounts that I wrote, and there are very detailed accounts of kings before and afterwards, and that is what most of the material is.

Things he mentioned:

He did not enjoy when Lovecraft's byzantine and obscure mythology got so methodically fleshed out after his death, and wants to keep the mystery in his world. He will not "bring gods out on stage".

Will we see more of Sothoryos? "Probably not." Furthermore, much of the details of Planetos' geography, especially east of Qarth, was invented to "fill out the map" in the map books. Notably, he said the HBO world and the book world differ in geographical canon, because the network used earlier sketches that he later remade.

He has maybe three shows in stages of development with HBO, none of which he knows the fate of.

He says he will finish ASOIAF but probably never be done with the world, and has plenty of things to write. He says he's about a third finished with Dunk and Egg.

Anything else I missed?

EDIT: Oh yeah, he made it pretty clear he won't be splitting TWOW AFFC style.

Asked about a sequel to Tuf Voyaging, George said he has so many ideas he'd like to do. He'd like to write more eventually -- he wants to do things like Tuf, a Wild Cards novel, a sequel to Fevre Dream, etc. -- but he has to finish ASoIaF, the Dunk and Egg stories, the history of the Targaryen dynasty that he wrote half of already... So there's a lot of things. And he has lots of new ideas, all the time. Ideas are easy but it's hard to turn them into stories. Somewhere in his notes, though, he has notes on a novel called Tuf Landing. Who knows what will be the case 5-10 years from now, etc. "I write one page at a time, that's all I can do."

Hei. Mahtavaa kuulla, että kova kantinen on tulossa. Samalla voisin kysäistä onko muuta Martinin sivu tuotoksia suunnitteilla suomentaa. Kuten world of ice and fire tai egg:n tarinat?

Jälkimmäiset kysymistäsi ovat tulossa – ensi vuonna.

I am still writing THE WINDS OF WINTER.

Well, true, there is always a gap between completion and publication... though seldom a long one.

For the moment, however, I am not doing any more anthologies, save for Wild Cards. I loved editing the big crossgenre books with Gardner, but I don't have the time or energy just now... not until WINDS OF WINTER is finished.

The versions of both of those currently in print (in DANGEROUS WOMEN and ROGUES, respectively) are severely abridged.

The full versions will eventually be published in FIRE & BLOOD, the Targaryen history I want to finish at some point. Whether that will be illustrated remains to be seen.

But first I need to finish WINDS OF WINTER and DREAM OF SPRING, and maybe some more Dunk & Egg as well.

But the book's not done.

Nor is it likely to be finished tomorrow, or next week. Yes, there's a lot written. Hundreds of pages. Dozens of chapters. (Those 'no pages done' reports were insane, the usual garbage internet journalism that I have learned to despise). But there's also a lot still left to write. I am months away still... and that's if the writing goes well.

FreyjaThe Book of Swords herättää kiinnostusta, liekö siitä tullut lisätietoja? Olisi hienoa, jos se sisältäisi neljännen D&E:n.

Gardner has said probably 2017, but possibly late 2016.

JussiNäin nopealla aikataululla uutta Dunkia & Eggiä ei varmasti ole mukana.