# Beginning to accept that GRR Martin will never finish ASoIaF

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**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-to-accept-that-grr-martin-will-never-finish-asoiaf/847036 "2020-01-27T04:38:36Z")\
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> [@Alessan](#):
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> I wouldn’t put Butcher in the same category as Martin and Rothfuss; he didn’t slow down, and the quality of his books didn’t deteriorate (the last two were IMHO among the best of the series). He wrote 12 books in 15 years, and then just stopped. That seems to indicate some external reason, and not that he grew tired of the series or that he doesn’t know how to finish it.

Stephen King had that happen as well with his Dark Tower series. After he was hit by a car in 1999 he wrote the last three books relatively quickly, but they were of lower quality than the first four.

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**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-to-accept-that-grr-martin-will-never-finish-asoiaf/847036/42 "2020-01-30T12:17:21Z")

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After I took ill in 2015, I decided I’d never start another book series that wasn’t already completed. I’ll leave enough unfinished when I go, I don’t want to add stories, books I’ve become immersed in, to the list. Butcher’s Dresden Files was what prompted that stance, and his five years in-between books has done nothing to change my mind.

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**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beginning-to-accept-that-grr-martin-will-never-finish-asoiaf/847036/43 "2020-01-30T12:22:16Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> He already sold out. To HBO. About ten years ago.

Right , HBO was the ghost writer for him for the last 2 books.

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