George RR Martin misses ‘Winter’ Game of Thrones deadline

George R R Martin has announced that the latest instalment in his A Song of Ice and Fire saga is “months away” from being finished and will not be published before the sixth season of the “Game of Thrones” TV show airs in April.

Unfortunately, Martin just recently admitted that he hasn’t finished writing his latest book and that he would have to release it after the sixth season airing of “Game of Thrones”.

In a later blog post, Martin thanked his fans for the “outpouring of support” in response to his announcement.

He wrote: “For months now I have wanted nothing so much as to be able to say, “I have completed and delivered The Winds of Winter” on or before the last day of 2015″.

“Chapters still to write, of course … but also rewriting”. Apart from writing new material, Martin also spends a lot of time rewriting, polishing and restructuring what he has written.

“Maybe. Yes and no”, Martin wrote.

Given where we are, inevitably, there will be certain plot twists and reveals in season six of GAME OF THRONES that have not yet happened in the books. “Game of Thrones” isn’t really a story about the Others and some resurrected dragons for me; it’s about what happens when a world falls apart, and how, up and down the social ladder, everyone scrambles for advantage at best or a scrap of safety at bare minimum. The tone of Martin’s post was extremely defeated as he explained that he truly thought he could get the book out in time, but he has continued to miss deadlines. “And it will be as good as I can possibly make it”. “This year, for some things, the reverse will be true”, he surmised. The first five seasons of the HBO series have adapted storylines from the first five novels in the series, averaging roughly one novel’s worth of content a season, give or take.

The acclaimed novelist said that he read Andy Weir’s “The Martian” before seeing the 2015 film adaptation, and saw BBC One’s “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” before reading the Susanna Clarke novel on which it was based.

Combine that with travels, awards shows, other projects and the fact that sometimes writing just doesn’t flow and you get delays.

Still, regardless of the release order, “you can still enjoy the hell out of both”. The case of GAME OF THRONES and A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE is perhaps unique. Potentially most disconcerting is the possibility that the television series will contain spoilers that will ruin the rest of the novels for readers, some of which began reading the books almost a decade and a half before the HBO series even existed.