It was sometime in 2009, in The Sandman's creator, Neil Gaiman's online journal that we encountered the infamous line heard all around the internet: George Martin is not your bitch.
Then again the last time we ventured into the lushly, detailed continent of Westeros and its neighboring landscapes, the epic 1040-pages of A Dance of Dragons, the six installment of A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, it did not only once again captured our imagination but also suspended us in disbelief because of its lingering cautionary theme of cannibalism.
Since its publication last 2011, the fierce devotion of the hefty American novelist, George R.R. Martin has been on a constant clamor for the next chapter of his book cyle. Such a requested actualization has been graced with a couple of still rude yet sweet awakenings not just from the author but from the publisher itself.
Jane Johnson, Martin's publisher at HarperCollins, has teased fans in The Guardian, that they will be releasing "novellas" which will still be revolving on the ASOIAF mythos. Although these "short novellas" will be akin to just the slicing taken from of whole cake.
"The novellas," said Johnson, "are illustrated in black and white line drawings throughout by Gary Gianni in classic style. It will be a truly lovely book, and I adore these clever, funny stories." They "give fascinating insights into the ongoing story, from the point of view of Ser Duncan the Tall, a hedge knight, and his squire Egg - who may be rather more than he first seems," she said.
"The short novels have been previously published in separate anthologies but never put together before, and this will be a particularly beautiful edition."
Either the author is working for us or not, his derived works has now spanned across pop-culture in the form of other mediums. A board game, a video game, a comic book adaptation and a famous TV series which strangely now has a road map of its own.
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