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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaric_Prympax" data-source="post: 1224118" data-attributes="member: 176">Concerning #3- Martin has publicly stated that he does not wish ASoIaF become another WoT (a series that will never end).  He wants the series to be no more then 6 books and even has titles for them.  But...He was planning in a 5 year gap in the story between A Storm of Swords (ASOS) and A Dance with Dragons (ADWD).  The 5 years were going to be covered in flashbacks but as he was writing it wasn't working out for him plus he discovered that he had one more story to tell so he scrapped what he had and started a book name A Feast for Crows (AFFC).  This is why it is taking so long for it to come out.  It seems that he worked on a book for over a year and then started over.  The other titles in the series were to be A Time for Woves and The Winds of Winter though I don't remember the order they were supposed to be.The next tenative date for AFFC is April, 2004 (this is on my computer at work-the same that had Aug 2003 and April 2003 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> )  but I seriously doubt it.  My prediction is August, 2004. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  See his website for his "Progress" Report near the bottom of the first page to see how much more he has to work on it, then the editorial process... rewrites... ect (hopefully a lot of this has been done on what he's completed so far).  I think that he'll finish it by the end of the year and what hasn't been edited will be over Jan, Feb, & March and published in Britain in March or April and here in the US in August just to give you my thought process. I'm really looking forward to this book and I'm hoping that I'm wrong and it will be out sooner then I think. *hopes and prays it will in fact be out before Aug, 2004*Here's the link to his website: <a href="http://www.GeorgeRRMartin.com" target="_blank">www.GeorgeRRMartin.com</a>I also think that the series will be 7 books since he has the same story to tell and had to add some to it (thus AFFC).  I don't see how he can keep it 6 books.  Furthermore 7 is a significant number in the series and would be fitting IMO.Concerning #4:  House Baelish's words should be "Be a Player, Not a Pawn" and he will get what is "rightfully" his.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And I'm looking forward to that too.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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