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Belfaborac · 03-28-2012, 02:57 AM

I'm wondering.... Do you think it's worth holding out hope that the huge success of the Game of Thrones TV series might provide the encouragement Martin needs in order to finish the story within a "reasonable" (ok, it's already beyond reasonable) time? With season 2 kicking off on Sunday the seventh series should run in the Spring of 2017, meaning volume 7 ought to be finished at least a year before that (assuming it stays at 7 volumes of course).

Presumably injecting a one year (or two, or...) pause into the running schedule would give HBO a serious earache (angry letters, angry e-mails, angry everything), which again might tricle down to the source, spurring him on.

Oh well, just a stray thought. Not really like me to come up with optimistic scenarios anyway.

03-28-2012, 02:57 AM	#26
Belfaborac Wizard Posts: 1,498 Karma: 5199835 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Norway Device: Sony PRS-505, PRS-950	I'm wondering.... Do you think it's worth holding out hope that the huge success of the Game of Thrones TV series might provide the encouragement Martin needs in order to finish the story within a "reasonable" (ok, it's already beyond reasonable) time? With season 2 kicking off on Sunday the seventh series should run in the Spring of 2017, meaning volume 7 ought to be finished at least a year before that (assuming it stays at 7 volumes of course). Presumably injecting a one year (or two, or...) pause into the running schedule would give HBO a serious earache (angry letters, angry e-mails, angry everything), which again might tricle down to the source, spurring him on. Oh well, just a stray thought. Not really like me to come up with optimistic scenarios anyway. Last edited by Belfaborac; 03-28-2012 at 02:59 AM.