Game of Thrones will anticipate on TV the next book in the saga – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The writer George RR Martin lamented publicly failed to finish The Winds of Winter , the sixth book d ‘ A Song of Ice and Fire ( The Song of Ice and Fire ) within it had agreed with the HBO television producer, responsible for the series Game of Thrones , inspired by that saga. The result is that the new season of the series, which will start in April 2016, will reveal to viewers much of the plot of The Winds of Winter before the book was for sale.

In a message to fans, published on Saturday on his blog, the writer confesses his disappointment for failing to finish the book in time. “You are disappointed and are not the only ones: my editors are disappointed, HBO is disappointed, my literary agents and foreign publishers are disappointed, but no one is more disappointed than me.”

After fail a first term, Martin pledged to complete the book until the 31st of December, but this extension has proved insufficient. The author has been working closely with the writers and producers of HBO to try to ensure that the series reflects what he wrote, but next season will now start before The Winds of Winter hit bookstores.

“For months there was nothing I more wanted than to reach the last day of 2015 and be able to say I turned and handed The Winds of Winter ,” writes the author in your blog, concluding:. “But the book is not ready or is likely to be tomorrow or next week”

Martin ensures that has written “hundreds of pages”, corresponding to “dozens of chapters, “but that there are still” much to write, “and that the missing will require you some months. And remember that, moreover, rewrites always, sometimes “just to polish”, sometimes making “major structural changes”.

The author explains that in early 2015 was to have the book ready in October, so that it can be released in March 2016, even before the start of the new season of the series, and this time it seemed at the time, “very feasible.” But ultimately failed to stick to it, and on Saturday apologized to readers, stressing that he alone is to blame for the delay and not guilty their editors and HBO from any responsibility.

In Portugal, the saga of Martin It has been published by the publishing Emergency Exit, who chose to divide each of the original books in two volumes, with independent titles, so they left already ten volumes, with the most recent A Dance with Dragons and The Realms of Chaos , the first and second parts of the fifth original volume, A Dance With Dragons .