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

JussiGRRM pitää taukoa blogissaan: viimeisin postaus on julkaistu 6. elokuuta.

KiLLPaTRiCKKolme vuotta meni myös Rothfussin Viisaan miehen pelon suomentamisen kanssa.

Aegon's Conquest

The Reign of the Dragon – The Wars of King Aegon I

Three Heads Had the Dragon – Governance under King Aegon I

The Sons of the Dragon

From Prince into King – The Ascension of Jaehaerys I

49 AC – The Year of Three Brides

A Surfeit of Rulers

A Time of Testing – The Realm Remade

Birth, Death, and Betrayal under King Jaehaerys I

Jaehaerys I and Alysanne – Their Triumphs and Tragedies

Jaehaerys I and Alysanne – Policy, Progeny, and Pain

Heirs of the Dragon – A Question of Succession

The Dying of the Dragons – The Blacks and the Greens

The Dying of the Dragons – A Son for a Son

The Dying of the Dragons – The Red Dragon and the Golden

The Dying of the Dragons – Rhaenyra Triumphant

The Dying of the Dragons – Rhaenyra Overthrown

The Dying of the Dragons – The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II

Aftermath – The Hour of the Wolf

Under the Regents – The Hooded Hand

Under the Regents – War and Peace and Cattle Shows

Under the Regents – The Voyage of Alyn Oakenfist

The Lysene Spring and the End of the Regency

Jussi

Joku risingshadowlainen voisi kysyä Kirjavan edustajalta, mikä on tilanne A Knight of the Seven Kingdomsin ja Abercrombien Last Argument of Kingsin suomennosten kanssa. Vuosi sitten niitten luvattiin ilmestyvän kohta. Ja sitäkin voisi tiedustella, aiotaanko Fire and Blood suomentaa.

JussiTEiköhän Kirjava lupaa Fire and Bloodin suomentaa... Hyödyllisempää olisi kysyä, että millä vuosikymmenellä noi luvatut suomennokset ilmestyvät.

I better go. Lots more to do today. Believe it or not, I am working hard on a lot of things (yes, including WINDS), even though I am not allowed to talk about most of them. Eventually, I hope, you’ll all be able to enjoy the fruits of my labors. I hope…

“There are novels buried in it,” Martin admits. “If I were 30 years younger I could easily write a series about the Dance of the Dragons” – the Targaryen civil war – “or I could write the story of Aegon’s conquest. Every one of the 13 children of Jaehaerys and Alysanne has a story that could be told about him or her, their rise, their fall, their triumphs, their deaths… It was a lot of fun to create, a lot of fun to live in that world again.”

The way Martin speaks about writing Fire and Blood is in direct contrast to how he talks about the long-awaited novel. “I’ve been struggling with it for a few years,” he admits. “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. Fire and Blood by contrast was very simple. Not that it’s easy, it still took me years to put together, but it is easier.”

And there’s the pressure it brings to the writing. The sheer popularity of Game of Thrones has made cracking on with the series harder, he admits. And there’s also the problem of the storyline in the show overtaking that in the books.

“The show has achieved such popularity around the world, the books have been so popular and so well reviewed, that every time I sit down I’m very conscious I have to do something great, and trying to do something great is a considerable weight to bear,” he says. “On the other hand, once I really get rolling, I get into the world, and that happened recently with Fire and Blood. I was going to sleep thinking of Aegon and Jaehaerys and waking up thinking of them and I couldn’t wait to get the typewriter. The rest of the world vanishes, and I don’t care what I’m having for dinner or what movies are on or what my email says, who’s mad at me this week because The Winds of Winter isn’t out, all that is gone and I’m just living in the world I’m writing about. But it’s sometimes hard to get to that almost trance state.”

JussiSain vastauksen sähköpostikysymyksiini Kirjavalta. A Knight of the Seven Kingdomsin sekä Abercrombien Ensimmäisen lain päätösosan suomennokset menevät painoon lähiaikoina – tarkka päivä ei ole tiedossa. Fire and Bloodin käännösoikeuksista neuvottelut ovat kesken. Kirjava toivoo, että tämäkin teos saataisiin suomeksi.

FIRE & BLOOD, the first volume of my history of the Targaryen kings, will be published on November 20.

I will be an executive producer on the show(s) as well, though my on-going exclusive deal with HBO and the various book deadlines will preclude me from having any sort of day-to-day involvement. But with Andrew and Melinda on board (and possibly more Wild Carders as well), Hulu will a great team.

The author says he’s hard at work on ‘The Winds of Winter,’ the long-awaited sixth installment in the fantasy series that spawned HBO’s hugely popular ‘Game of Thrones.’ He’s offering a series prequel, out this month, in the meantime.

George R.R. Martin is in hiding. He’s talking to me from a remote mountain hideaway whose location he refuses to disclose. It’s a cabin he visits when he wants to hunker down to finish a book—and he’s hard at work on “The Winds of Winter,” the long-awaited sixth installment in “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the fantasy series that spawned HBO’s hugely popular “Game of Thrones.”

Events in the HBO show have moved beyond the timeline in Mr. Martin’s books, but he says the television version hasn’t changed his own plans for the final sixth and seventh books. “I’m still going to finish it the way I always wanted to finish it, the way it’s been in my head for 25 years now,” he says, declining to provide any details.

Mr. Martin says that he writes seven days a week, except during fall football season, when he takes Sundays off to watch Giants and Jets games on TV. He and his wife Parris live in Santa Fe, where he resurfaced from his mountain hideaway before this article’s photo shoot.

Huomasin äsken uutisen, että Game of Thronesin viimeinen kausi alkaa ensi huhtikuussa. On käytännössä varmaa, ettei The Winds of Winter ehdi ilmestyä ennen sitä. En ole saanut Martinin viimeaikaisista viesteistä sellaisia viboja, että kirjan valmistuminen olisi lähellä.

JussiAdlibris väittää toimittavansa Fire & Bloodin amerikkalaislaitoksen 2-5 arkipäivässä. Hintana on noin 26 euroa.

Fire & Blood

Being a History of the Targaryen Kings of Westeros

Volume One
from Aegon I (the Conqueror) to the Regency of Aegon III (the Dragonbane)

by Archmaester Gyldayn of the Citadel of Oldtown
(here transcribed by George R.R. Martin)

What was interesting from The Guardian interview you did, is this book — as daunting as it would seem for most authors to attempt, and as tough as Winds has been for you — this was curiously easy for you to write.

Yes. Partly because it’s linear. Although it covers 150 years or so, it’s very straightforward — here’s what happened in the year 30, here’s what happened in 25. In Winds, I have like 10 different novels and I’m juggling the timeline — here’s what’s happening to Tyrion, here’s what’s happening to Dany, and how they intersect. That’s far more complicated. And the history book, I only have one voice to do. It’s supposedly by the Archermaester Gyldayn who has his own particular voice; he’s a crotchety old academic. When I’m doing Winds, I switch voices every time I switch chapters. Each has their own style and voice and have their own cast of supporting characters in different places in the world.

Are there any hints here in terms of what’s to come in your Ice and Fire saga?

There are a few that are definitely important, but I’m not going to flag them. Readers will have to find them and puzzle out whether they’re hints or red herrings.

Before we go, here’s a standard question I missed asking you at the start: What excites you most about Fire and Blood?

The book is a lot of fun. The people who are open to reading an imaginary history and not a novel — which I realize is not everybody — have enjoyed it so far. But honestly, the single thing that excites me most is that I finished it. I know there are a lot of people out there who are very angry with me that Winds of Winter isn’t finished. And I’m mad about that myself. I wished I finished it four years ago. I wished it was finished now. But it’s not. And I’ve had dark nights of the soul where I’ve pounded my head against the keyboard and said, “God, will I ever finish this? The show is going further and further forward and I’m falling further and further behind. What the hell is happening here? I’ve got to do this.” I just got the [Fire and Blood] copy and, holding it in my hand, it’s a beautiful book. The illustrations by Doug Wheatley are great. It’s been a long while since I had a new Westeros book and nobody knows that as well as I do. I know that just as much as the angriest of my hardcore fans. And I have continued to publish other things. It’s not like I’ve been on a seven-year vacation. I have Wild Cards books coming out every six months. But not like this, one that’s entirely my writing. So to finish a book that I’m proud of and excited by was emotionally a big lift for me.

He confirmed that the sixth instalment was his next priority: “The Winds of Winter is next, then I’ll decide what comes after that – whether it’s to go on to A Dream of Spring, the last one, or whether I switch back into Fire and Blood II, do another Dunk and Egg story or two. But I’ll worry about that one thing at a time – that’s too far ahead.”