UPDATE: George R.R. Martin ‘s publisher says the author has no plans to release the next volume in the A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2015, according to the Guardian . “These are Will George R.R. Martin release "The Winds of Winter" before "Game of Thrones" Season 6? Reuters "A Song of Ice and Fire" readers and "Game of Thrones" viewers are now sharing the same boat. Last year, in a livestream arranged by his publisher, Martin claimed that The Winds of Winter is "about three-quarters of the way done," although he's hesitant to provide a release date for That’s as compelling a reason as any for fans of Martin’s Westeros books to stick around until the novel — whose release date he’s resisted pinpointing — finally arrives. It’s definitely been a wait; A Dance with Dragons , the last book in the cycle, was published all the way back in 2011. Martin has proved categorically incapable of hitting a deadline for his next novel, but he hasn’t deviated from identifying the book as his number one boy. (“ Winds remains my priority,” he The Rise of the Dragon is an upcoming book that Martin co-wrote with Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson. The book will describe the history of House Targaryen, but unlike Fire & Blood, the book is written in an encyclopedic style, similar to The World of Ice and Fire. For readers who are already familiar with Fire & Blood, The Rise of the Game of Thrones may have finished three years ago, but George RR Martin is still hard at work on his penultimate book in A Song of Ice and Fire, The Winds of Winter.With 11 years having passed George R.R. Martin's Fire & Blood is a great, Now this decade has almost passed with no release date for part 6. George R.R. Martin gets candid about new book: 'What excites me most is I Game of Thrones concluded back in 2019 Credit: HBO. He also made a point of managing fans' expecations when it comes to upcoming book Winds of Winter, stressing that there was no release date in the mind and he still had "hundreds of pages to write." For that matter, Elden Ring could still miss its scheduled January 21, 2022 release date. There are a lot of unknowns still in play. Having said all of that, it’s not actually all that crazy to DbIUway.