
And there were 55 years between Harper Lee’s two novels.īut he's one of the first in the internet age, when sites like Reddit act as echo chambers of fan rage at the glacial pace of his writing. It’s an opportunity for geeks to engage in that most fanboy-ish activity - complaining.ĭealing with trolls chiming in on every article and blog entry mentioning Martin must surely sap some of his energy, and probably leads to some spite at the delays. But like Neil Gaiman infamously said in 2009 when fans were grousing over the long wait for Martin's previous novel, A Dance with Dragons, “George R.R. Stephen King took more than 20 years to complete The Dark Tower. Martin isn’t the first author to take decades to finish a series.

Martin still hasn’t finished Winds of Winter even though the HBO series has come to an end.
