Larry Correia has planted a flag on the mouldering corpse of George R.R. Martin’s literary career. There’s a fisking in the linked article, which involves MSN.com relitigating the whole Sad Puppies/Hugos drama from ten years ago, because they want to sell the narrative that Correia and Martin are rivals, explaining this mockery. Correia fisks the… Read More The Ruins of Westeros
No, I’m not going to write about the Riots or the Election or the Virus or any of that stuff everyone’s already right about and mad about. Go infect your brain with Twitter if you want to read the latest hot takes. I have other things to think about. Specifically, I want to write about… Read More I Should Care About Witcher But I Don’t.
In the last issue of UJ, I penned an essay about how I felt regarding the end of Game of Thrones. In that essay, I argued that the spirit of Martin’s work is essentially pagan, and the influence of Robert Howard is far more present than that of Tolkein, who filled his work with a Catholic… Read More George R.R. Martin is Seriously Starting to Bore Me
So a friend of mine texted me yesterday with the words “New Game of Thrones book out 11/20.” And I got all excited and stuff. Because I’d pretty much given up on ever seeing Winds of Winter this year. And that’s a day before my birthday. Serendipity, right? RIGHT. TWOW CONFIRMED. GET HYPE! Oh. No, winter… Read More Lost in Westeros
Because I actually go so far as to purchase HBONow so I can watch Game of Thrones, because A Song of Ice and Fire is the only fantasy series I’ve gotten my wife to read, because I’m a fan, I occasionally check Wikipedia to see if there’s any rumor of Winds of Winter, the long delayed… Read More Winter is Leaving – A Lament on the Unfinished State of Game of Thrones
Why not both? A discussion of the Great Unsurprise of the New Year – the unfinishing of The Winds of Winter – has prompted Joe Vasicek to point out that for indie authors, it may be more the latter: In the traditional system, writers were paid an advance on royalties by their publishers. The contract also… Read More Is Writing Art, or Commerce?
It’s time to deal with some unpleasant truths, Song of Ice and Fire fans. The Shows are going to Lap the Books. This is going to happen. We are going to get spoiled by a show in which there is no Lady Stoneheart, no Brave Companions, in which the Greyjoys except Theon hardly exist and have… Read More Leave George R.R. Martin Alone
Yesterday, Martin’s official Twitter account posted this: On the first day…House Tully came bearing gifts…#12DaysofWesteros pic.twitter.com/I2rll6fR70 — George RR Martin (@GRRMspeaking) December 10, 2014 Which prompted the Internet (and especially Reddit) to lose its damn mind. Because, 12 days from yesterday is December 21st, the first day of Winter. The next book in the series… Read More Confirmed: George R.R. Martin is Screwing With Us.
[The following post will be of no interest to people who are not fans of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.] This is me, calling it. (h/t: Finish the Book, George) When the HBO series started, I knew this wouldn’t work. I knew that the series would go faster than the books,… Read More George Will Not Finish the Book(s)
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