George RR Martin's A Dance with Dragons is delayed until 2013!

Cafe Society
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This just hit the wires today.

For more information, you can check out newssites here and here.

Could this really be the last year I do this? Tune in April 1, 2012!

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I do hope he’s hired personal security for the present time at least. I’m not a fan, nor have I read his books. This is largely because of the utter fury I have observed in the people who have read his books, and are waiting fo the next one. . .

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Mixing it up, are we?

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Ahem. Check the calendar.

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Too funny! It is because it is *believable *that makes it a good joke! Had I not read closely I would have been telling people that it was delayed.

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Whooshed. Utterly and completely. Bravo! ::claps::

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I think this is the 5th year in a row I’ve been suckered on April 1 about GRRM.

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The OP is a cruel person. :smiley:

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Almost…you almost got me. Then I realized that seven new characters was entirely too paltry an addition to be true with Martin.

ETA: Actually, I think it scares me that my very first thought on reading the thread title in the forum list was, “I KNEW IT! I TOLD THEM!”

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The name of Martin’s alleged editor is “April Fulls.” Subtlety of a jackhammer, but I guess this would just be way too believable if the OP didn’t put a clear reveal in there somewhere.

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THIS. Except that you suckered me completely. Well done!

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It ought to be 3500 pages as long as it’s taken. If the not-so-subtle indications that this was a joke weren’t included, I’d have believed it.

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Dang, I was just going to start a SoIaF Fool’s thread entitled “Dance With Dragons to have new POV: HODOR!”. Now you’ll all be on guard.

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Hodor! Hodor hodor hodor HODOR!

Hodor? HODOR!

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Hey, I wanted to keep with tradition. It’s GRRM that’s mixing things up!

Heh. Check the first link :stuck_out_tongue:

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You got me last year, but not this year, damn you! Hahaha!

(I was expecting to come here and see a prank thread about GRRM, even.)

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Hodor.

A pox upon the OP. I believed it without hesitation.

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So, I read the thread title, and my heart sinks. Then I click. Then I quickly skim about 1/4 of the first few lines in disbelief. Then I remember the joke and check the poster’s name. Then I recover. Then I read more of the thread and see Dio’s comment. Then I go back and re-read the entire OP, more carefully this time.

Bravo, sir. Love the last line.

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Does it count as a joke if it’s true?

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Bravo.

Of course, the joke will be on you in a month when he announces it IS being delayed. >_>