Probably started it over after the last season of the show came out, probably at least partially based on his idea of the ending, and everybody hated it.
Martin wrote the series to "subvert expectations," at a certain point he wrote himself into a corner and there's nothing left to subvert. He would have to just write a normal story and that's unbearable for him.
There's also the interesting tidbit that he had a collaborator on the first two books (the Expanse author) who left to pursue his own career, then Martin's output plummeted.
I doubt he wrote more than a chapter or two of Book 6, if even that.
to "subvert expectations," at a certain point he wrote himself into a corner
Or as I like to call it, circling the drain. You abandon all sense of a coherent storyline so the only thing keeping you afloat is shock value. So you spin things faster and faster trying to stave off the inevitabe fall.
2016 was five years after the last book released and supposedly book 6 was already mostly done by then.
Probably started it over after the last season of the show came out, probably at least partially based on his idea of the ending, and everybody hated it.
Martin wrote the series to "subvert expectations," at a certain point he wrote himself into a corner and there's nothing left to subvert. He would have to just write a normal story and that's unbearable for him.
There's also the interesting tidbit that he had a collaborator on the first two books (the Expanse author) who left to pursue his own career, then Martin's output plummeted.
I doubt he wrote more than a chapter or two of Book 6, if even that.
Or as I like to call it, circling the drain. You abandon all sense of a coherent storyline so the only thing keeping you afloat is shock value. So you spin things faster and faster trying to stave off the inevitabe fall.