Has George R.R. Martin finished the sixth and seventh books in his "A Song of Fire and Ice" series, but he's keeping that fact hush-hush until the final episode of Game of Thrones airs, under a secret deal with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss? A Game of Thrones actor suggested as much. "It seems absurd to me that I need to state this," Martin wrote on his blog, but "no, the books are not done. HBO did not ask me to delay them."
It boggles me that anyone would believe this story, even for an instant. It makes not a whit of sense. Why would I sit for years on completed novels? Why would my publishers — not just here in the U.S., but all around the world — ever consent to this? They make millions and millions of dollars every time a new Ice & Fire book comes out, as do I. Delaying makes no sense. [George R.R. Martin]
Fans of the series have been eagerly waiting for the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, since Martin published the fifth book in 2011. The series, which Game of Thrones is based on, is expected to conclude with a seventh book, A Dream of Spring. "I am not going to start writing volume seven until I finish volume six," Martin wrote. Not that he's celebrating his slow pace. "NO ONE would have been more delighted than me," he said, if The Winds of Winter had been published "four or five years ago."
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