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It was six years in the past this week when HBO hit TV present Game of Thrones aired its final episode.

Since George RR Martin hadn’t written the ultimate two books in his A Song of Ice Fire sequence, the showrunners needed to depend on his deliberate plot factors for The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, within the ultimate couple of seasons.

The 76-year-old final revealed a novel in his fantasy sequence in 2011, when the Game of Thrones TV present first aired.

There was one level when he hoped to have The Winds of Winter out by 2018.

Yet six years on from Game of Thrones’ final episode and there’s nonetheless no signal of a publication. Here’s the most recent from the creator.

In a 2025 interview with TIME, Martin referred to as The Winds of Winter “the curse of my life here. There’s no doubt Winds of Winter is 13 years late. I’m still working on it. I have periods where I make progress and then other things… divert my attention and then suddenly I’m working for… I have a deadline for one of the HBO shows, I have something else to do.”

In current years, he’s additionally teased that it will likely be an enormous guide, the longest thus far. Meanwhile, about 18 months in the past, he stated he’d written 1100 to 1200 pages with round 400 to 500 left however admitted he was “struggling.”