For anyone who came to the series during the rise of post-Tolkien fantasy, all the elements were there: Williams’s elf-alikes the Sithi or Norns, and his troll-ish Quanucs. It was followed in 1990 by The Stone of Farewell and then in 1993 with To Green Angel Tower, which was split into two volumes, making it a four-book trilogy. “Better than this” would be his 1988 novel The Dragonbone Chair, the first book of his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, set in the richly detailed world of Osten Ard. “Eventually, it occurred to me: I can do better than this.” “I was looking for originality and what I was getting was warmed-over rehashes of Tolkien,” he says.
Like Martin, Williams was once disenchanted: having had his mind blown by The Lord of the Rings when he was 11 years old, he spent years devouring all the fantasy books he could find – and was left wanting. Fictional worlds were typically populated by elves and dwarves, orcs and goblins, questing heroes and two-dimensional female characters (if there were any at all). In the 1980s, the genre’s bad reputation was well-earned: three decades after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, fantasy still trod well-worn and thinly veiled medieval European paths. And I read The Dragonbone Chair and said, ‘My God, they can do something with this form, and it’s Tad doing it.’ It’s one of my favourite fantasy series.”
“Fantasy got a bad rep for being formulaic and ritual. “The Dragonbone Chair and the rest of his famous ‘I four-book trilogy of the things that inspired me to write my own seven-book trilogy,” said Martin in 2011. It makes not a whit of sense.I read The Dragonbone Chair and said, my God, they can do something with this form, and it’s Tad doing it George RR Martin The world is round, the Earth revolves around the sun, water is wet… do I need to say that too? It boggles me that anyone would believe this story, even for an instant. It seems absurd to me that I need to state this. DREAM is not even begun I am not going to start writing volume seven until I finish volume six. “No, THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING are not finished. Martin, on his part, has called the reports “absurd” and reiterated that the books are not yet finished. But unfortunately, I didn’t get to play all of that, so we’ll have to wait and see,” he added. George, I talked to him during season one and he did say to me that Barristan had a very interesting journey.
“So if all goes well, in another month or two we might get books six and seven, and I’m intrigued to know how Barristan, for instance, ends up going through those final two books. But he struck an agreement with David and Dan, the showrunners on the series, that he would not publish the final two books until the series has completed,” McElhinney said. “George has already written books six and seven, and as far as he’s concerned there only are seven books.
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