Defending George
It’s a bit odd but, in the last week, three extensive defences of why George R. R. Martin hasn’t finished A Dance of Dragons yet: one (in two parts) from The Wertzone, one from Suvudu and one from A Dribble of Ink (although this is more a commentary on the Suvudu one).
This is one of these odd things that never would have happened before the internet. Before the net, we never would have known anything about why he hadn’t finished it. But now we know about his football watching, travel plans, work on other books and we have forums dedicated to people moaning.
As for me? I don’t care. Yes, it’s kind of stupid that he is taking so long and yes, it does put off some people. But I still enjoyed the first books in the series and have no regrets that I read them. And Martin doesn’t ‘owe’ me the end of the series anymore than Fox owed me the end of Firefly. I’d prefer to have a conclusion but there is no implicit contract between author and reader that someone will finish a series to my satisfaction. But I’m certainly not going to spend my time defending Martin from critics either – he made his bed.
3 Comments to Defending George
Yeah, it’s an odd phenomena really. Something tells me that berating him isn’t going to make him write faster.
DuncanFebruary 3, 2009
I saw the title and thought you meant Bush. WTF?
NickFebruary 4, 2009
Sophie told me if I wanted to write about politics or music I could start my own blog…
February 2, 2009