Maybe By June: A Song of Ice and Fire Update

[HarryT]

The UK Amazon site is showing a release date of 9th April, 2009.

[Liviu_5]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The UK Amazon site is showing a release date of 9th April, 2009.

Right now nobody knows when Dance will be ready for the simple reasons that Mr. Martin himself does not know So any date is speculative - people who talk with him think it's going to be 2009, but they thought it was going to be 2008, so right now just wait for the announcement the book is done.

Then it will be rushed into production so probably instead the normal one year it will come out in 3-6 months from then depending on schedule, and also it is possible it will come first in the UK because of easier scheduling

[astra]

Product details

* Hardcover: 704 pages
* Publisher: HarperVoyager (6 April 2009)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 0002247399
* ISBN-13: 978-0002247399

[Liviu_5]

Originally Posted by astra

Product details

* Hardcover: 704 pages
* Publisher: HarperVoyager (6 April 2009)
* Language English
* ISBN-10: 0002247399
* ISBN-13: 978-0002247399

Well the same info appeared when the book had an Amazon date of September 2008 - I had it on preorder

Until Mr. Martin announces the book is done, any date is speculation

[Ramen]

Meh.

I really like A Song of Ice And Fire but GRRM is turning into a nag, tbh. At his current pace, he won't live to finish the series which is arguably worse than having some details not to your satisfaction.

[hix5000]

LOL, wow I hope that's wrong!

[MdB]

am I reading this wrong: Product Details
Hardcover: 1008 pages
Publisher: Spectra (April 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553801473
ISBN-13: 978-0553801477,

Or did that say 2013? 13!!!! I don't think I can make it.

[Dave Berk]

Originally Posted by MdB

am I reading this wrong: Product Details
Hardcover: 1008 pages
Publisher: Spectra (April 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553801473
ISBN-13: 978-0553801477,

Or did that say 2013? 13!!!! I don't think I can make it.

Ignore all this. They don't know. Nobdy knows apart from George and he probably can't tell it to the day. keep looking here, and here and you'll be among the first to know... (after george and his family and his editor and his close friends and... you get the idea ) Also keep a close eye on the ASOIAF forum, if anyone have credible guesstimates, they do.

[astra]

Originally Posted by MdB

am I reading this wrong: Product Details
Hardcover: 1008 pages
Publisher: Spectra (April 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553801473
ISBN-13: 978-0553801477,

Or did that say 2013? 13!!!! I don't think I can make it.

Your ISBN is different to mine.

Still,

A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire)
 				 					 						 							George R. R. Martin 							 						 					
 				 				 					 						Hardcover 					  					             			-              			  	            			Spectra Books             			 					  					             			(Dec 2009)         			          			             		- 1008 Pages 					  					 						
 						ISBN 0553801473 						- ISBN-13 9780553801477

[MdB]

I pulled it off the Amazon site. But perhaps I was looking at the wrong section... It will come, when it comes. I can't wait. But I guess I will have to.

[hix5000]

I remember when Robert Jordan started having long delays like this between his Wheel of Time books. It really killed the series for me. I kept myself busy between books by reading other series and eventually I got so into the other series I stopped caring about The Wheel of Time. Hopefully this series doesn't end up like that one.

[astra]

Originally Posted by hix5000

I remember when Robert Jordan started having long delays like this between his Wheel of Time books. It really killed the series for me. I kept myself busy between books by reading other series and eventually I got so into the other series I stopped caring about The Wheel of Time. Hopefully this series doesn't end up like that one.

Jordan's delayes are nothing in comparison to Martin regarding the long delayes between books. If you compare two of them in this regard, you might say Jordan had no delay at all.

Look:
A Song of Ice and Fire series:

• A Game of Thrones (1996)
• A Clash of Kings (1998)
• A Storm of Swords (2000)
• A Feast for Crows (2005)
• A Dance with Dragons (forthcoming)

5 years between A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows
At least 4 years between A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons

WoT:

1. The Eye of the World (15 January 1990)
2. The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)
3. The Dragon Reborn (15 October 1991)
4. The Shadow Rising (15 September 1992)
5. The Fires of Heaven (15 October 1993)
6. Lord of Chaos (15 October 1994)
7. A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)
8. The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)
9. Winter's Heart (9 November 2000)
10. Crossroads of Twilight (7 January 2003)
11. Knife of Dreams (11 October 2005)

The longest is less than 3 years. So...
If WoT's delayes killed your interest to the series, then your interest to ASOIaF must be dead long time ago!

[gollu]

As Martin said there will be 7 books in the finished series, I really lost all hope that it will be completed some day.
But as we know Martin's taste for killing his most likable characters, I am not sue i want to read the end.

[HarryT]

Perhaps he'll go for the "Blake's 7" style of ending .

[hix5000]

Originally Posted by astra

Jordan's delayes are nothing in comparison to Martin regarding the long delayes between books. If you compare two of them in this regard, you might say Jordan had no delay at all.

The longest is less than 3 years. So...
If WoT's delayes killed your interest to the series, then your interest to ASOIaF must be dead long time ago!

I read the Martin series last year, (somehow never heard of it before that) if I had started reading when the first book came out then I would definately have given up already. Looking at the times between those books I will more than likely be giving up on Mr. Martin. I think Feist and Brooks spoiled me with their quick writing cycles.