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He has also acted as an editor for various anthologies and contributed to several television series, often stepping away from the primary series that made him famous. The result is a prolific output of related media, yet the core series remains painfully unfinished.
The Shifting Timeline and Self-Contradictions
Martin's own words about The Winds of Winter have been inconsistent over the years. Initially, he claimed to have written 400 pages by 2012 with a hoped-for publication in 2014, a goal that consistently proved unrealistic. Subsequent promises to release the book in 2016, 2018, 2019, and beyond kept slipping. In 2017, he said the book would come out "this year," only to delay again.