/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11057922]

Does he have his own "Christopher Tolkien" to pick up the work once he keels over and dies? Or will it be completely over once he's gone?

[Anonymous No.11058628]

>>11057922
He said if he dies the books die with him

[Anonymous No.11058649]

>>11057922
Probably the guys that made the show.

[Anonymous No.11058849]

>>11057922
His wife probably has Bradford Sanderson on speed dial.

[Anonymous No.11058921]

>>11058849
>brandon sanderson
>ending reddit's muh intellectual fantasy with a 500 page anime battle

I hope this happens

[Anonymous No.11059015]

>>11057922
Rothfuss will finish it for him.

[Anonymous No.11059123]

>>11057922

The George RR Martin is immunized against all dangers: one may call him lazy, a hack, a profiteer, a failed TV writer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But ask him to actually release a Game of Thrones novel and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been working on other things”

[Anonymous No.11059268]

>>11057922
Not literature>>11058628

[Anonymous No.11059302]

>>11059015
Can't even finish his own shit.

[Anonymous No.11060400]

The problem is is that he doesn't seem to realise that he's a grossly overweight septuagenarian

[Anonymous No.11060406]

>>11057922
we can only hope it disappears forever

[Anonymous No.11060408]

So what is it about fantasy authors not finishing their work?

[Anonymous No.11060420]

>>11060408
can only come up with so much horse shit to push down even the most willing, salivating, mouthbreathing normie-throats before you lose steam

[Anonymous No.11060425]

[Anonymous No.11060427]

>>11060408
Highly creative types also tend to be spaceheads

[Anonymous No.11060451]

>>11057922
he's already finished the books

[Anonymous No.11060461]

>>11060451
>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.11060490]

>>11057922
he wrote himself into a corner with all the magic and "chosen one" type stuff and seeing the show has made him realise how stupid it is. probably got rid of everything and has a deal with sanderson or some other hack to finish it off

[Anonymous No.11060513]

>>11060490
this more or less. he let the fame get to him and tired to blow the shit out too big, changed the complexion of the whole thing, got senile too. it's almost the honorable thing to do at this point to just go ahead and not finish

[Anonymous No.11060517]

>>11060490
hope this is true desu

[Anonymous No.11060523]

>>11060490
>chosen one type stuff
He hasnt written himself in a corner at all, he has loads of options to go down in the book. The only exception is the white walker shit.

[Anonymous No.11060535]

he got 2 already, I hear, they wrote that lore book released past year, "with" him.

[Anonymous No.11060537]

>>11060523
he can't/won't do anything subversive or interesting with it

>>11060513
>he let the fame get to him and tired to blow the shit out too big
I don't know about that, at least in terms of his writing. the most recent books were the least crowd-pleasing. it could never end well from the start, the others just don't work well with the rest of the story

[Anonymous No.11060560]

>>11060535
I can't find it, so maybe it hasn't come out yet
or was it World of Ice & Fire?

[Anonymous No.11060571]

>>11060560
>>11060535
might be both that and "Fire and Blood"

[Anonymous No.11060607]

>>11059123
Absolute kek

[Anonymous No.11060608]

>>11060408
Pretty sure fantasy authors are the main writers of stupidly long series in the first place.

[Anonymous No.11061853]

it's highly unlikely that Sanderson will finish it. he couldn't read past A Game of Thrones because it offended his delicate Mormon sensibilities. maybe someone from his (defunct?) writing group like Daniel Abraham would do finish it, if GRRM wants someone to finish out the series, or maybe even Steven Erikson or Mark Lawrence.

i don't treat D&D's fanfiction show as legitimate, and I probably won't take the ending seriously either, so if he dies and doesn't nominate a successor it will just remain unfinished for me.