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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Asimov and Frank Herbert also (in)famously died with their life's works unfinished. It is, honestly, a sadly common thing for sci-fi/fantasy writers to bite it before they are able to finish their tales. Asimov was a goddamn writing machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_bibliography_(chronological) He was once asked what he would do if told he had only 30 minutes to live and replied "Type faster".
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Yeah, I'm betting one more book get's pushed out in the next year or two and then he is done with writing more*. *Except for yet more volumes of fake history backstory that nobody asked for. I guess he really is the 'American Tolkein'. Edit: It's just occurred to me. When he dies we really are going to get multiple volumes of 'unfinished tales', containing all the cut chapters and revisions aren't we. It's like he's channelling old JRR at this point. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Jun 20, 2018 11:52
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So what you're saying is he's channelling JRRT badly. Checks out.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:There's only two good books, and they're some of the duller stuff Fitzgerald and Dickens wrote Lord of Light is great though.
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Dangerllama posted:
Holy poo poo. Imagine reading the Sword of Shanhara, and then reading LoTR. That must have been 
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Ginette Reno posted:I hope it's weird and x-filesish like season 1. No dabbling their toes in the water like they did with the Yellow King stuff last time. Go full on gonzo Lovecraftian halfway in. It's set in the Ozarks, let's have some Mi-Go turn up. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Sep 2, 2018 |
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Sep 2, 2018 22:36
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Urdnot Fire posted:Just give us the Dunk and Egg story at Winterfell, George, for gently caress’s sake. You know what, if he just wrote that one story I'd be "Ok. Fair enough George. We'll call it a draw. You just procastinate forever and I'll just watch whatever dumb ending the TV show eventually goes with." I just really want that one story.
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Nov 14, 2018 23:08
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Winds of Winter drops at 2 minutes to midnight tommorow. 
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Dec 30, 2018 12:15
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So I started reading (a friends copy) of Fire and Blood. Got about a 100 pages in before I realised. Wait. Why the gently caress am I reading 700 pages of fake history. No sane answer coming to mind, I have abandoned this endeavour.
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Jan 19, 2019 22:04
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I'm guessing 'Guy wanders in, all in black, on his own, who nobody knows, without money, and no clear explanation for what he's doing' is going to be a little suspicious.
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Mar 5, 2019 10:05
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Sephyr posted:I wish I liked China Mieville's stuff better, because he seems to be a cool, chill guy. Wasn't there some pretty unpleasent #MeToo type allegations about CM a while back.
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Apr 14, 2019 20:14
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Real world. An Aunt marrying a Nephew would historically have been considered perfectly acceptable in a Royal Marriage. An avunculate marriage that finally ended a massive, multi-sided years long civil war would be also be regarded as a massive plus by everyone around. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 19:48 on May 13, 2019 |
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May 13, 2019 19:44
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All these spin-offs happening are predicated on a triumphant conclusion to GoT leaving the fans begging for more. Welp. 
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May 13, 2019 21:18
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Simply run down to the nearest money tree, pull that fat cash off the branches and buy a house. Bing bong, so simple.
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May 13, 2019 22:07
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Randarkman posted:
I went to a museum a while back and they had all these great religious paintings that are wonderfully anachronistic. Roman soldiers looking like medieval knights, important figures dressed in medieval finery etc etc.
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May 14, 2019 15:00
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Dr. Video Games 0112 posted:Looking at the map, Westeros is more of a big UK than a full continent. https://brilliantmaps.com/westeros-google-map/ Shape-wise it's the mainland UK mirrored North to South at The Neck.
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May 24, 2019 17:11
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I thought that it was a plot point, at least in the books, that magic (including the Red Priests) wasn't really working till the Dragons returned. Which is why Thoros used to have to fake setting his sword on fire using oil and a light and was incredibly surprised when his prayers suddenly resurrected Beric Dondarion.
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May 27, 2019 10:27
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Fortunately F&SF writers past 70 have no well-know tendency for their writing to become horrible parodies of their younger selves work. *Checks notes* 
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Might have picked up on the Wight from it's use in Dungeons & Dragons. Don't know if he played that specifically but he was definitely into Superhero RPG's. Most of the orginal Wild Cards characters were from his Superworld campaign.
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Aug 1, 2019 13:56
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I feel bad for Preston because now that the show is over he can’t put out nearly as many videos and probably needs to get a real job. I had to look him up. Two hours of video in six parts on "How I would Fix Game of Thrones Season eight". That's practically a cry for help.
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Oct 22, 2019 15:24
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You should make a six part video exploring your feelings.
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Oct 22, 2019 17:39
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Invalid Validation posted:There’s a whole thread devoted to the books. It skews to a younger audience and can be quite long winded but Jordan was a good writer. It’s been pretty good on my reread I’ve been doing but it’s definitely fantasy. 'Quite long winded' in the sense that stage 4 pancreatic cancer is 'Quite bad'. You're underselling it a bit.
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Gianthogweed posted:I never pictured Tom Clancy as a gamer. But I guess that's good my dad used to always read his books and he hated video games and rpgs. Wasn't the videogame though, although It did get years later adaptations. The super-groggy cardboard chits, maps and rolled dice Harpoon. I can totally see a still living/writing 2020 Clancy going nuts over Command: Modern Naval Air Operations though.
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Jan 25, 2020 11:18
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*Six months ago, somewhere in a secret bioweapon lab* 'Dammit! There's got to be someway to get him to finish the next book.............waiiiiiiittttttt a minute' *Leans forward and deliberately knocks over vial marked Bio-Hazard*
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Mar 26, 2020 11:28
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TERFherder posted:well that's what I was trying to do here.. It's entirely possible it did to everyone else. But I was just oblivious to the obvious. See also - My entire life history.
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"Goons gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my permaban. I shall take no waifu, host no sites, father no memes. I shall wear no deodorant and win no respect from my peers. I shall live and die by my shitposting. I am the source of the dorkness. I am the Tbagger of the balls. I am the bitch of that absolute fucker GRRM. I pledge my life and boner to this dead gay forum, for this night and all the nights to come."
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May 3, 2020 22:31
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Evil Fluffy posted:
I never saw the problem they had coming up with an ending. Just unambiguously kill him. Handle it like so many other hits in the show. Follow the shooter as he drops the gun and walks unmolested out of the resturant as the shocked family scream, you know just like every other time that's happened, that's the point. He get's in the car, tells someone it's done, roll credits. or Go full Goodfellas, show Tony as a divorced nobody in witness protection, his life as he knew it over.
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May 9, 2020 11:57
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:It’s his own drat fault for going too far in expanding the breadth of the story in the last two half books instead of actually advancing the main plot lines toward a resolution. Yeah, if he dumped the Quentyn failquest, Iron islands succession story, Tyrion and the fake heir and just got Dany moving back across the ocean and concentrated on Westeros and the White Walkers, i.e. the stuff people actually cared about, he'd have probably (well possibly, it's still GRRM we're talking about here) have finished by now.
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May 16, 2020 10:08
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If he'd added 5 years to the age of all the kids right from day one, he wouldn't have had the "I need everyone to be 5 years older" issue as well. If he gets rid of the timejump he needed for his story to work as originally conceived then it's not a colossal writers block when he's actually writing the story and OMG realises that ain't gonna fly and he needs to rethink stuff.
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Mat Cauthon posted:There's some GoT theory crafter guy on Tumblr whose name I can't remember because they haven't posted in forever (I think the bad tv ending might have given them a stroke). They had some pretty coherent and plausible theorizing on the magical workings in the books and how there seemed to be a impending "oh poo poo" moment with Euron doing some Eldritch stuff as well as the other forces in motion with the dragons, Others, Faceless Men, etc. But even if GRRM did have some larger conflict brewing regarding the various magical factions I think he's lost the thread and we'll never see it anyway. Sounds like Poor Quentyn https://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/
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You cowardly bastards. If I had to read all ten of those loving Mazalan books, you should have to as well.
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Jun 8, 2020 23:03
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Cardiac posted:You should read Bakker. Even I gave up on Bakker after the first trilogy .
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Jun 10, 2020 09:53
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There was that big fight where the Free Folk try to take the wall from the Watch. I remember that being pretty decent. Seconding Hardhome was good.
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Jul 12, 2020 14:20
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nine-gear crow posted:GRRM already gets to live in the mental prison that is seeing his beloved series fall from stellar heights to craterous depths with all the speed of light falling into a black hole and be irreparably marred because he sold it to a pair of incompetent con artists for a sack of beans. The show immediately started to go off the rails when it left the books behind and those hacks had to improvise from vague hints. If he'd actually finished writing it in the years he had to do so, chances are they'd cobble together a perfectly acceptable ending based on that. No-one to blame but himself.
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Jul 29, 2020 22:09
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Ccs posted:I get massive projects can have unforeseen delays, but it's pretty clear a lot of these authors aren't really making the best use of their time. I'm assuming the massive infusion of money he got from the TV deal and the explosion in book sales destroyed his incentive to buckle down and write rather than just gently caress around doing whatever he liked. Honestly  in that situation, but just admit that you've lost interest and they'll never be done or finish it. Pick a lane.
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Jul 30, 2020 08:21
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Eh, he just edits those though doesn't he, and other authors do the actual work of writing.
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Kylaer posted:
Search your feelings Kylaer, you know what you must do.
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Sep 19, 2020 09:33
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I do like the way they're going so 70's marvel in the next phase. The Eternals, Black Knight, even Shang-Chi (Master of Kung Fu!).
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I walked into a bookstore in Greenwich (London) years back and Lindsey Davis, author of the Falco series (Detective novels set in Flavian era Rome) was doing a book signing for her latest. Not a soul seemed interested, worse because (as I happend to know) she lived in Greenwich and this was her local book shop. The staff were practically wincing every time they looked at her.
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Invalid Validation posted:I’m surprised he got there at all with how big he is. He's an obese elderly man, who can afford extremely good heathcare. He could have another 20 years of procrastination in him.
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