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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 4708020" data-attributes="member: 20741">Well. I think that GRRM counts it out this way...By the time the pilot is actually filmed and shown, there will be five books in print.Assuming the series is then greenlit and stays in production at the rate of one novel = one season a year...and actually gets to the end of book five where book six is needed - he'll be done book 6 which will already be out in print by that point.And that's a VERY big assumption. The chances of that level of success happening, given HBO's past track record with Rome, would appear to be vanishingly small.But...yes, it could happen. If so, then...it's a bit touch and go whether or not book 7 gets resolved in print before the series or whether it's the series getting resolved before the book. (My bet - series gets filmed before book is submitted for publishing), but series *with* book released shortly thereafter.But all of this assumes first that HBO actually green lights and keeps filming a pilot plus six YEARS of a fantistorical series, that they have not yet even greenlit past a pilot.  Only then does this giant shark and its ominous music get close to GRRM's boat.I also expect that GRRM figures that the end of a monumental series is a lot easier to write than the middle. There will be far fewer plot threads to keep track of by the time he gets to Book seven of aSoIaF. The beginning and endings are much easier than the middle of any large work to write.My guess is that GRRM has thought about pretty much all of the above when he has mused on the "what if the HBO series actually passes me" conundrum.</blockquote>

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