George R.R. Martin has revealed a set of latest covers for A Game of Thrones and your complete A Song of Ice and Fire ebook collection.
Revealed on his blog, the beautiful new covers “seize the vastness of Westeros and the harmful journey readers will encounter.” The 5 books can be found in a boxed set and will probably be out there on-line and in shops in October 2024, although no value was revealed.
“There is a uncooked and gritty high quality to linocut and woodcut artwork,” the submit continued. “A sure starkness that appeared to suit the tales, and a protracted historical past to the artwork type that felt proper for this world.
“This cowl design course of paired linocut artist Mark Seekins and designer Tim Green, with artwork path from David G. Stevenson. They labored collectively to develop sketches and carve the designs into blocks of linoleum, the place the raised areas had been inked and pressed onto paper. The covers characteristic a number of colours, which required separate blocks for every shade layer. The completed prints had been then photographed and included into the covers.”
This boxset would not embrace your complete A Song of Ice and Fire story, in fact, as Martin famously, maybe infamously, has but to complete the ultimate two books.
The subsequent entry, The Winds of Winter, is up to now 10 years late and seemingly making sluggish progress. Martin mentioned in November 2023 that he’d written 1,100 pages of the extremely anticipated ebook, the identical quantity he’d written a 12 months earlier.
No author is blessed with producing an ideal first draft, in fact, and Martin’s “writing” of The Winds of Winter may even embody re-reading, re-writing, modifying, planning, and so forth, so there’s nonetheless loads of work to be carried out with out really growing the web page quantity whole.
Martin mentioned in October 2022 the ebook was round three quarters of the way in which carried out, noting he is utterly completed some characters’ tales however nonetheless has others to weave all through them. The total progress of The Winds of Winter has change into considerably of an ongoing gag inside the fiction neighborhood although, with even Martin himself getting in on the joke.
An estimated launch window for The Winds of Winter was first given in 2011 when the earlier ebook, A Dance With Dragons, was launched, and Martin mentioned it will take three years to complete at a great tempo. That set expectations for a 2014 launch date, however 12 months after 12 months, and delay after delay, Martin nonetheless is not able to launch the penultimate A Song of Ice and Fire entry.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
