Everything We Know About George R. R. Martin’s ‘The Winds of Winter’

Game of Thrones is adapted from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and after the show took off, the popularity of the books grew too. Now, the world includes a second show, House of the Dragon, more upcoming spinoff series, historical texts, and a series of short stories, but still, A Song of Ice and Fire remains unfinished. The next book in the series will be titled The Winds of Winter, but despite the 12 years since the previous book, A Dance with Dragons, was published, there is no release date. Fans have grown impatient for the next installment, looking closely at everything Martin says or does, hoping for clues of when The Winds of Winter will arrive on shelves, but still nothing. Game of Thrones began four months before A Dance of Dragons was published and has long passed the content Martin released, even concluding before the author completed The Winds of Winter. While fans wait anxiously, news of the next book is scarce. Yet, even with information being few and far between, over the years, it has accumulated. Still, the question of when it will be released haunts the fans. With The Winds of Winter uncompleted and A Dream of Spring still to follow, the ultimate fate of the A Song of Ice and Fire books is as ambiguous as that of its characters.