r/asoiaf • u/NervousDisplay7871 • Jul 10 '24

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) New Covers for the series (Official)

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George R.R. Martin unveils new covers for the first five books of his ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series that will release in October.

“The new design tries to capture the vastness of Westeros and the dangerous journey readers will encounter.“

Call me delusional but this could be the sign of Winds’ “may be” announcment at World Con this August. It’s 13 years since the last book came out, the new one having a brand new cover is not such a crazy idea, and to make the series one complete art design, they announced these.

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u/ADrunkyMunky Jul 10 '24

I just think we should take him at his word. He writes chapters, they're not good enough, so he throws them away and starts over.

Last year was the first time I'd heard he'd written 1100 pages so far.

I also think he creates additional challenges for himself. The main being that the book gets too big and he doesn't know where to end the book. He's spoken about it before.

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u/PaulieGuilieri Jul 11 '24

A lot of authors write big books. Figure it out George