'Winds of Winter' theory confirmed by George R.R. Martin at Edinburgh Book Festival?
With the HBO series "Game of Thrones" already on its way to a season 5, fans of the show are concerned about the available material to be used for the TV series. Right now, George R.R. Martin is still writing the "Winds of Winter" which is predicted to be released in 2017. Will the book make it in time for "Game of Thrones" Season 7?
Well, Martin has been focusing his time finishing the book, especially now that there's pressure on his shoulders. Also, Martin does feel some pressure on how to give the story of Westeros as justifiable and suprising for everyone, which is particularly difficult to do now that everyone has their own theories and speculations about the ending.
True enough, the clever fans of the book and TV show solved the mysterious ending. At the Edinburgh International Literary Festival, Martin was asked about the fan theories surrounding the books "Winds of Winter" and "A Dream of Spring." According to Telegraph, this is what he said:
"I've wrestled with [the issue of fan speculation online], because I do want to surprise my readers. I hate predictable fiction as a reader, I don't want to write predictable fiction. I want to surprise and delight my reader and take them in directions they didn't see coming ... At least one or two readers had put together the extremely subtle and obscure clues that I'd planted in the books and came to the right solution," admitted Martin.
"So what do I do then? Do I change it? I wrestled with that issue and I came to the conclusion that changing it would be a disaster, because the clues were there. You can't do that, so I'm just going to go ahead. Some of my readers who don't read the boards, which thankfully there are hundreds of thousands of them, will still be surprised and other readers will say: 'see, I said that four years ago, I'm smarter than you guys,'" the author added.
That would be as far as Martin will go to spill anything about the books. He did confirm that someone got it right, but of course, won't confirm what theory that is. That will just spoil everyone.
