It’s not much, but George R.R. Martin did give us a little insight into when he thinks he will have The Winds of Winter completed. Considering we’ve been waiting nearly six years since the release of A Dance with Dragons in 2011, we’ll take any news. He responded in his usual witty manner to a…
With the fourth season of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones came many a character death, including those of fan-beloved Ygritte and Sandor “the Hound” Clegane. But fans did not shed as many tears for them as they did for boy king Joffrey Baratheon. Tears of joy, that is. A Love/Hate Relationship In his three-and-a-quarter…
George R.R. Martin recently gave a very public “f*** you” to readers speculating on whether he’ll die before he finishes A Song Ice and Fire. Martin, who is currently 65-years-old, had this to say those readers in an interview with the Swiss daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger: “I find that question pretty offensive, frankly, when people start…
Why does it seem as though books based in fantasy or historical settings always make food sound so delicious? Perhaps it’s because in most scenarios the characters have spent their days on a long voyage and they reach that point of hunger when even the idea of eating animal droppings seems reasonable. Just when the…