[ SECRET POST #6442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6442 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

07. https://i.imgur.com/OEYHlBH.png

[(Anonymous)]

He's put a lot of scientifically accurate stuff into the books, so this might actually be where he is going with it. The Others do sound like aliens with laser swords, tbf.

[(Anonymous)]

Heh.

It's a good thing I don't really care anymore, but I think I never hated the thought of him not finishing the books, but more his refusal to tell us the ending. Of course it's his story and his decision and I do think it's fair to not want someone else to finish your story even after you're dead, but... just some cliff notes in a safe to be told after he's gone (unless he DOES manage to finish ofc). Anything for the people who loved your story for so long (and gave you your money).

[(Anonymous)]

The thing is that stuff changes in the process of writing. So whatever ideas he might have in his head about the ending, they aren't necessarily THE ending, because THE ending won't exist without GRRM actually writing it and working the whole thing out.

And to the extent that he did have any loose ideas in his head, they were probably the things that happened in the show bc he told them to D&D.

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't something like this happen in the Pern series? Where the fantasy suddenly made turn into being sci fi and some giant old computer system turned out to be the solution to everyone's problems?

[(Anonymous)]

It was always humans settled on an alien planet and there was always time travel, but yeah, the exact specifics, ie the damned computer, showed up a decade into publishing.

[(Anonymous)]

Pern was always nominally sci-fi, because it's from before fantasy really existed as a commonplace publishing genre / marketing category, so there were a bunch of things that would be published as straight-out fantasy today but got published as science fiction instead because it was easier to market it that way.

CF Andre Norton's Witch World books.

[harpers_child]

Yes. Teenage me was very upset about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the computer was past the time I stopped reading those books, but the one prequel that revealed things about the settlers coming in ships from Earth and how the three bright stars they always talked about were actually leftover satellites blew preteen me's mind. I thought it was awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

The problem with this is that I don't see how it fits with what's going on with the rest of the books thematically.

I love a twist ending! But like, a particular twist should still be meaningful and interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

If it was somehow wrapped into the "magic coming back" and dragons part, I could totally buy it. The world is already weird enough with the wobbly summers and winters, I would love to see an SF explanation for that!

(My totally non-canon SF explanation is that it's not literally 10 year summers, it's a warmer period where they still have basic seasons but much, much warmer; the winters are more dreaded in chilly Westeros, but the long summers are bad elsewhere. And the reason is a wobbly elliptical orbit.)

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats, OP, you figured out a worse way to end a series than "it was all a dream!"