Game of Thrones Season Seven is breaking its own ratings records the most recent episode, Beyond the Wall, became the second most-watched installment in the shows history. But George R. R. Martin who wrote the HBO fantasy-dramas prime source material, the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire is not one of those viewers. The author recently told Metro hes too busy to watch the series due to his busy writing and touring schedule.
Game of Thrones was originally tethered to Martins novels, but the show has moved forward with new plot strands while the author has continued to work on the forthcoming sixth installment of the Song of Ice and Firesaga, the oft-delayed The Winds of Winter.
Martin told Metro the plots in the two mediums will continue to diverge. The book series and TV adaptation go their separate ways, he said. On the screen characters are killed right and left. About 20 of them have died already, which are quite alive to me and will appear in a new book.
Martin didnt offer a progress report on The Winds of Winter, and it remains unclear when hell release the book, which follows 2011s A Dance With Dragons. In a January blog post, the author wrote of Winter, Not done yet, but Ive made progress. But not as much as I hoped a year ago, when I thought to be done by now. I think it will be out this year. (But hey, I thought the same thing last year).