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Frosty_Mess_2265 t1_jdvan2g wrote

Reply to comment by i-should-be-reading in Cancelled books? by FaithlessnessOdd9006

GRRM has said he doesn't want anyone to finish the series if he dies tho. I'm pretty sure he said he would go so far as to burn his notes

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i-should-be-reading t1_jdvdwof wrote

Yeah and Melisandre said Stannis Baratheon was the prophesied prince. The future is hard to predict...

Seriously though after Martin said that Ty Frank took to Twitter to say he and Abraham won't finish it without George's consent. But what happens when his estate decides they want the check from the publisher?

Daniel Abraham was literally responsible for splitting of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons into two books because Martin wrote too much for one book (source they have talked about it to cons and a simple Google search confirms this). And he hasn't issued any qualms about finishing the work when Martin passes (hopefully with more written).

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Beamarchionesse t1_jdwc5kx wrote

The same thing that happened to Anne Rice's works after she died. Her estate went "You're going to write us a check for how much?" and then they signed on the line.

[For people who don't know, Anne Rice was very, very controlling of her work and how it was adapted and/or used. She allowed no fandom publications, and was....difficult to work with. Which was her right, it was her work. But she also started a feud with the dude who owns/owned Popeyes Chicken because he refurbished a building in the French Quarter to be a restaurant, and the building had featured in one of her books, and she felt he ruined her book by doing it because she hated his style. Which was kind of tacky, but it was an empty Mercedes' dealership before or something like that. Lady was...unique. Then she died. And her estate has let the adaptations run wild.]

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