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name: Peter Molnar
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published: '2014-06-09T11:00:43+00:00'
tags:
- opinion
title: Game of Thrones is crippled
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During the past week, on every single news site I regularly visit, I've
come across George R. R. Martin's fundraising offer: \$20000 and you can
die in his books[^1].
The cause is good ( the money is for a wolf sanctuary ), and there are
other options to support, all of them would be fine except the highest
prize.
I was a fairly early reader of the original Game of Thrones book and it
was something new, something no one did properly before: a fantasy with
very life-like happenings and twist. I've later learned that the
original first book was such a massive success that Martin altered his
plans to continue the story five years later with book 2 and 3 for the
trilogy; instead he started writing 7 books, filling in all time. That
is how the fascinatingly boring A Feast for Crows and
nothing-is-actually-happening A Dance with Dragons born.
And now, his offering to alter the storyline that was supposed to be the
original trilogy. The story that he said he'd written parts of a decade
earlier, according to his words.
Most of the best books I've read are stories that were a whole ( more or
less ) before they were written; or at least this was what their writers
told about them. ( Just search for the reasons why only 7 Narnia books
exist, for example. ) They offer the possibility that Star Wars did: a
long, long time ago…
But not Martin. This move is clearly ruining the last remains that The
Song of Ice and Fire was ever a complete story, with a beginning and an
end, that was waiting to be told. No, it's something Martin decides.
It would have been nice to have the illusion.
[^1]: <https://www.prizeo.com/prizes/georgerrmartin/a-wolf-sanctuary-tour-and-helicopter-ride>