Any George R.R. Martin Fans Here? - Page 2

George R.R. Martin is one heck of a nice guy. He sold me a signed limited edition ESSENTIAL ELLISON for 89 bucks on ebay a few weeks back.

EOD

As it ever was, soon.

Seriously, hes still not finished, at earliest we can expect it some time in the autumn.

Jon's real parents?

Rhaegar and Lyanna

Jon's the third head of the dragon. Along with Dany and maybe Tyrion.

Just picked up Legends II, with the short story The Sworn Sword by Martin.

Anyone read this? Any good?

I loved the first one in Legends, The Hedge Knight.

Dunk and Egg are great.

Based on the recommendations in this thread, I picked up the first volume of this series a few days ago.

Thank you all so much for guiding me to this, finally some non-derivative fantasy with intelligent characters.

I am a huge fan of Martins Wild Cards books, but hadn't read any of his fantasy stuff till now.

Volumes 2 & 3 are now on order, once again, thank you for the recommendation.

Oh, you are quite welcome. These books need to be read, mainly by people who think fantasy has become too derivative to be a viable genre any longer.

Wait until you read 'A Storm of Swords', it is even better then 'A Game of Thrones' if you can believe that. You will join the rest of us anxiously awaiting for 'A Feast for Crows' to be completed.

A quick check on Amazon.com shows the 4th volume coming out Augiust 3rd 2004 in hardback.

They showed the same thing last year, except it was coming out in 2003!!!

I'll believe it when I see the update on Martin's website. Anything other than that, I will not believe it.

Yes, don't hold your breath for an August 2004 release.

On the "good news" front, some of Martin's backlist is being reprinted this fall. Look for "Fevre Dream" for Halloween!

A Feast for Crows has now OFFICIALLY been "postponed until next year."

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

And just where did you get this info?

I see nothing about it on his website.

From the publisher, Del.

Well, that sucks!

What are you going to read now?

I'm reading Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy. I'm on the third book and it's pretty good. Martin likes her and that's how I found her.

There's always plenty to read. Right now I'm working on Jeff Long's new book (due out in July) - The Reckoning.

I liked Descent , but I haven't checked out Year Zero .

What's The Reckoning about?

Have you read Martin's The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword ?

Yes, I have read both of those Martin novellas.

The Reckoning is about a photojournalist who is documenting an army-led search for the body of an American pilot in Cambodia who went MIA in Vietnam.

OK, I've now read the first two books in the Song of Ice and Fire series, and I'm waiting on the 3rd volume to arrive at my local bookstore (in 2 parts here).

Bloody fantastic, real characters, flawed, selfish heroes and villans, but I think that I have nailed down WHY it's so believable, for a fantasy series it has a tiny proportion of fantasy elements,\

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The Others, mentioned as legend, appear briefly once, no explanation of the threat that they represent.

Re-animated corpses, happens once on the Wall, is mentioned by the 'free people' occasionally.

Dany's three dragons, seems to be a growing plot thread, but hardly driving the story, so far.

Bran's telepathic ability with his wolf.

Stannis's Red Priestess creating the shadow assassins, used to drive major plot pivots (the joining of the Stannis/Renly southern forces, the end of the Storm's End Siege to generate a big threat to King's landing so Tywin can come save them.)

I guess my point is that the human characters and their attributes drive the story forward, not gods, dragons, or other fantasy elements. I think that's what makes it so engrossing.

Update on A Feast For Crows posted to his site....http://www.georgerrmartin.com/nextbook.html

Still not done. Damn.

I won't be surprised if this doesn't get out until next year. From the update on his site, I get the idea that Martin thinks he has a shot at writing something special, and he doesn't want to fuck it up. I cracked up at reading this quote, Martin is always very gracious to his fans, but I wonder what his email inbox is looking like these days. I'm not a patient person at all, I wish Feast would come out tomorrow, but I can't fault Martin for wanting to write a good book, no matter how long it takes him.