[caladanbrood]

http://georgerrmarti.../if-update.html




So aDwD will be released on July 12th (assuming this is a US release date).




Fingers crossed that this isn't just another false dawn. Apparently it seems much more solid than the previous ones.

[QuickTidal]

I'm not going to believe this fully till he hands the finished book over...but it is a step in the right direction.

[End of Disc One]

Damn I just realized if this happens...and I import from the UK because it comes out there first...I probably won't be finished with it by the time Ghost Story comes out (assuming I'm caught up in Dresden by then.)

I never thought I'd say this, but maybe I'll have to set the new Martin book aside for a few days.

EDIT: After browsing the Westeros forum it seems this is the date for both the US and the UK. I still probably read to slow to finish it by the time Ghost Story is released.

This post has been edited by End of Disc One: 03 March 2011 - 03:05 PM

[Hoods Breath]

yee haw. Finally.

so... uh... when is 'The Winds of Winter' coming out?

[QuickTidal]

Hoods Breath, on 03 March 2011 - 03:03 PM, said:

yee haw. Finally.

so... uh... when is 'The Winds of Winter' coming out?

I have a better question. When does A DREAM OF SPRING come out. LMAO!

*looks at watch and sees twenty years pass*

[epicfantasynerd]

Be still my heart.

[King Bear]

This is awesome. Timely for me too, considering I just got into the series

So two more books = two more decades + four more half-a-books?

but... btw A Dream of Spring is already out. Martin took so long to write it that the Wheel of Time had completed a full revolution by the time the book was done. Its publication heralded the dawn of the First Age.

[Use Of Weapons]

You know what the coolest thing about this announcement is?

It is this: I'd given up on ASoIaF, hadn't read the latest book, and so for me, it'll be like starting a brand new epic series when I do a reread and then pick up the latest novels. Two epics for the price of 1!

[King Bear]

jitsukerr, on 03 March 2011 - 03:32 PM, said:

You know what the coolest thing about this announcement is?

It is this: I'd given up on ASoIaF, hadn't read the latest book, and so for me, it'll be like starting a brand new epic series when I do a reread and then pick up the latest novels. Two epics for the price of 1!

I haven't read AFFC yet either, so in a similar position!

Now, to be annoyingly and pointlessly pedantic, it's really just one epic we'll be reading. Each book is half-a-book to the other. Does mean though that we'll have the WHOLE epic for the price of half-an-epic, whereas everyone else (who has read the first half) just gets the half.

[McLovin]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Use Of Weapons]

Bombur, on 03 March 2011 - 03:38 PM, said:

Now, to be annoyingly and pointlessly pedantic, it's really just one epic we'll be reading. Each book is half-a-book to the other. Does mean though that we'll have the WHOLE epic for the price of half-an-epic, whereas everyone else (who has read the first half) just gets the half.

I mean that, in the ensuing years, I've forgotten everything about the whole thing -- cast, plot, locations, themes. There's a dwarf, and an annoying girl. That is literally all I remember. So I'll be starting from the very beginning (a very good place to start).

[Nicodimas]

WOOT! This calls for a timely re-read as I have been forgetting important details, besides the ones that obviously stick out.

/rockon

[caladanbrood]

I think I'm going to watch the TV series, then re-read the rest of the books, then get this one. That way I should be able to buy it in paperback

[QuickTidal]

A re-read would require me to once again sit through the mired-boredom-crap that was AFFC. I'd re-read the first 3, but never AFFC.

[Tyr]

Planning to read AFFC before it comes out (since I havent already). Yay, I can finally give the ASoIaF books a rest for 5 years whilst I divulge into to other series - AND I WONT BE BEHIND IN DISCUSSION AND SPOILERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Cyphon]

Seems a reread is required.

After finished TCG...
And then rereading the entire series...
and then reading other books that have been on my shelf unread for far too long...

[Spiridon_Deannis]

Sorry, y´all...not reinvesting in that one until it is finished....

[Ceda Cicero]

That potential cover looks pretty boss. At least, comparatively speaking.

All my cynicism and jadedness over the delay these past few years aside, I got chills when I read that post, and cannot wait to get my hands on this book. Finished a reread two months ago, and the man can just spin one helluva yarn, all criticisms aside. It's such a nice contrast/complement to Malazan too, in so many ways. I can't really describe how, but if I had to it would be that reading Malazan is like running around like a madman on a scavenger hunt with an incredibly complex and vague set of clues, where reading Martin is like geocaching with a GPS. A very, very slow running GPS...

Finishing it and dragging myself back to his blog for updates on the next installment will probably leave me feeling even more cold and dead inside than finishing the Crippled God, on the less optimistic side of things...

[Slow Ben]

Its awesome that its finally coming out, but i'm not gonna get in any big hurry to read it. Especially with Ghost Story out at the same time.

[Ceda Cicero]

Bombur, on 03 March 2011 - 03:38 PM, said:

jitsukerr, on 03 March 2011 - 03:32 PM, said:

You know what the coolest thing about this announcement is?

It is this: I'd given up on ASoIaF, hadn't read the latest book, and so for me, it'll be like starting a brand new epic series when I do a reread and then pick up the latest novels. Two epics for the price of 1!

I haven't read AFFC yet either, so in a similar position!

Now, to be annoyingly and pointlessly pedantic, it's really just one epic we'll be reading. Each book is half-a-book to the other. Does mean though that we'll have the WHOLE epic for the price of half-an-epic, whereas everyone else (who has read the first half) just gets the half.

With all the insane restructuring that Martin has hinted at (and talked openly about) and that Wert's discussed in other threads, it seems pretty likely that Dance will no longer be JUST the other half to AFFC. I think it's safe to say that this will mostly be the case, but I'm almost certain that it's going to go beyond where AFFC left off in terms of timeline, as well as include some brief POVs from just a few characters we saw in AFFC (when that wasn't originally going to be the case.)

You're still mostly right though.