What fantasy series will the author finish first?

[KenM]

Ok, I thought the Geroge RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire was really good. I'm waiting for book 4, but book 3 came out 5 years ago. I think this is a little too long between volumes.
But Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time just seems to go on and on, I lost intrest in book one wiuth that one. But I was wondering what series do you think will come out with its last book first?

 

[Hand of Evil]

Ok, I thought the Geroge RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire was really good. I'm waiting for book 4, but book 3 came out 5 years ago. I think this is a little too long between volumes.
But Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time just seems to go on and on, I lost intrest in book one wiuth that one. But I was wondering what series do you think will come out with its last book first?

Not by Joardan's time scale...

 

[drothgery]

Unless GRRM really picks up the pace, or Jordan takes more than four novels (and while I don't believe the two he says, three is quite possible) to finish the main sequence of WoT, Jordan will finish the main sequence WoT books before GRRM finishes SoIaF. It's almost impossible to reach any other conclusion based on what the respective authors have done so far.

Jordan seems to be getting a book out every 2-2.5 years these days. He says he's got two books to go, and probably actually has three. The next book is definitely going to be out in the second half of this year, so the series should be done no later than 2010. Even a book 14 would be out no later than 2012.

Martin's taken 5 years for the most recent book (with no release date in sight). He says he's got three books to go. Assume that Feast of Crows actually comes out in 2006, and make a very optimistic assumption that he takes three years each for the next two books, and that's the end. At the earliest, he's done in 2012.

So no matter what you think of the authors, it's extremely likely that WoT will be done before SoIaF.

 

[The_lurkeR]

I voted SoIaF for two reasons.

1) I think GRRM will knock out the book after Feast pretty quickly. From everything I've read he had a decent idea of where things were going, but decided midstream to flesh out alot of details that he had originally planned to just skip over, and it became FoC, the extra book squished into the middle of the series.

2) I don't think Jordan or his publishers will ever let his gravy train come to a halt. I think he'll stretch it out as long as he possibly can.

 

[Lazybones]

I believe that the Rapture will come about before either series is complete.

Or for secularists, a catastrophic asteroid impact that impacts the Earth and destroys civilization.

Sign me:

-a disillusioned former GRRM/RJ reader

 

[Enforcer]

So long as Jordan's wife does the editing he'll never finish. Given that Crossroads of Twilight's plot can be summed up as

Spoiler

Egwene gets kidnapped, everyone else does the same crap they did in Book 9

I have no faith that any forthcoming Wheel of Time books wiil go anywhere.

 

[Starman]

So long as Jordan's wife does the editing he'll never finish.

She started editing with book 7, right?

I'd definitely agree that having her take over was a huge mistake. While the pace had slowed down somewhat with books 5 and 6, things weren't too bad. Now the series seems to be more about random bitchy females rather than the core group of characters we started out with.

Starman

 

[Hand of Evil]

Unless GRRM really picks up the pace, or Jordan takes more than four novels (and while I don't believe the two he says, three is quite possible) to finish the main sequence of WoT, Jordan will finish the main sequence WoT books before GRRM finishes SoIaF. It's almost impossible to reach any other conclusion based on what the respective authors have done so far.

Jordan seems to be getting a book out every 2-2.5 years these days. He says he's got two books to go, and probably actually has three. The next book is definitely going to be out in the second half of this year, so the series should be done no later than 2010. Even a book 14 would be out no later than 2012.

Martin's taken 5 years for the most recent book (with no release date in sight). He says he's got three books to go. Assume that Feast of Crows actually comes out in 2006, and make a very optimistic assumption that he takes three years each for the next two books, and that's the end. At the earliest, he's done in 2012.

So no matter what you think of the authors, it's extremely likely that WoT will be done before SoIaF.

You know the world ends in 2012.

 

[Barak]

I'd much rather wait for, and read, 3 books in which stuff actually happens than wait a little less, and read, 3 books in which people, errr... Think about their feelings a lot?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Given that Crossroads of Twilight's plot can be summed up as

Spoiler

Egwene gets kidnapped, everyone else does the same crap they did in Book 9

I have no faith that any forthcoming Wheel of Time books wiil go anywhere.

You forgot that

Spoiler

Perrin tortures an Aiel, and Mat kills a woman...both seriously compromising their ethics, etc. Yeah, I know, it's not much...

.

The last couple of books have taken place over, what, two weeks? Oy.

Brad