In 2011, the second volume, The Wise Man’s Fear, hit shelves and speculation started anew for the end of the series. Rothfuss made a splash when he debuted in 2007 with The Name of the Wind, the first in his trilogy “The Kingkiller Chronicles.” The series would tell the story of Kvothe, an orphan prodigy, magician, and warrior, and how he came to be a broken innkeeper hiding from his past legend.Īfter stating he had the trilogy completed and the books would be released annually, the perfectionist in him led to years of revisions and fine-tuning, often word by word. Just ask these other authors whose epics still have no end in sight but are very much worth the wait.Īnd remember, they’re not your bitches either. And there were 55 years between Harper Lee’s two novels.īut he's one of the first in the internet age, when sites like Reddit act as echo chambers of fan rage at the glacial pace of his writing. It’s an opportunity for geeks to engage in that most fanboy-ish activity - complaining.ĭealing with trolls chiming in on every article and blog entry mentioning Martin must surely sap some of his energy, and probably leads to some spite at the delays. But like Neil Gaiman infamously said in 2009 when fans were grousing over the long wait for Martin's previous novel, A Dance with Dragons, “George R.R. Stephen King took more than 20 years to complete The Dark Tower. Martin isn’t the first author to take decades to finish a series.

Martin still hasn’t finished Winds of Winter even though the HBO series has come to an end.

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