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It'll be tight. Werthead Send a noteboard - 12/07/2011 04:32:39 PM
I'm on the fence about this myself. In a lot of ways ADWD has left us with more plotlines and complications than we had going in, but in a recent interview he said that seven is still the target. One thing's for sure in my view: if he can pull it off in just two more, the rest of the series will eclipse the books that came before.


Aegon VI's invasion seems a bit left-field and a complication too far, but OTOH it does set things up for Dany's invasion (and Dany and her dragons are a known threat in Westeros by the end of ADWD, so she's lost the advantage of surprise anyway). If Aegon VI is going to ally with Dany upon her arrival, he's already got a toehold and conquered several castles already. In essence he's done what she would have to do anyway. So I think that helps.

The biggest problem with that is Dany still seems a ways from returning to Westeros. She's made the decision that she needs to return home, but she's stuck in the middle of the Dothraki sea with an uncooperative dragon and just been picked up by a Dothraki khal hostile to her. So even in the best-case scenario she's going to have to spend at least a few chapters of Book 6 convincing the Dothraki into an alliance (I suspect naming the dragon Drogon will help, as they may assume his spirit lives on in the dragon or something), return to Meereen, smash up the blockade, deal with Victarion (I have a feeling Victarion will arrive at Meereen first, use the horn to take control of the other two dragons, and then have a showdown with Daenerys on Drogon) and then begin moving her people back to Westeros somehow. That puts off Dany's invasion until late in Book 6 at best.

To get the series done in 7, the only thing I can think of is that Dany's invasion will turn out to be more important in the aftermath of the series rather than the series itself. The war with the Others will be mostly fought by the Westerosi (led by the resurrection-as-PWWP Jon? I'm not a fan of that idea but GRRM seems to have set it up almost to the exclusion of all other possibilities), the Others will be defeated by lore gathered by Bran and maybe Samwell, and Dany shows up in the aftermath. Possibly a little disappointing, but again it would be an inversion of reader expectations.

Based on all of that I am probably marginally (like 51-49) thinking the series may expand to eight books after all.
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You might like this quote from House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. - 11/08/2011 03:42:05 PM 1705 Views
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Alternatively.. - 22/07/2011 09:13:46 PM 1646 Views
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None of them. - 22/07/2011 06:25:19 PM 1625 Views
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Opinion - 22/07/2011 07:43:16 PM 1642 Views
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Lose the apostrophe in the subject line. Then: on what basis do you assume this? - 23/07/2011 02:28:49 AM 1708 Views
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A typo can't be "glaring"... - 23/07/2011 08:08:51 AM 1607 Views
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Morality stems from god? - 22/07/2011 10:47:59 PM 1622 Views
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It's not an objective morality. - 25/07/2011 05:41:33 AM 1602 Views
Its not that simple... - 25/07/2011 06:21:39 AM 1654 Views
I don't disagree with most of what you said. I just reach a different conclusion. - 25/07/2011 01:57:31 PM 1593 Views
Well... - 25/07/2011 05:02:45 PM 1589 Views
How then do you deal with the Euthyphro dilemma? - 16/08/2011 01:43:18 PM 1483 Views
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Whats the best new POV - 26/07/2011 03:14:05 AM 1651 Views
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Absolutely *NM* - 29/07/2011 02:31:54 AM 967 Views
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A bit. - 26/07/2011 12:32:32 PM 1770 Views
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Martin doesn't have to do anything - 27/07/2011 01:33:36 AM 1703 Views
Re: Martin doesn't have to do anything - 27/07/2011 04:38:19 AM 1612 Views
Re: Martin doesn't have to do anything - 27/07/2011 08:58:55 AM 1532 Views
Re: - 27/07/2011 04:27:18 AM 1714 Views
I like your theory. - 27/07/2011 04:35:22 PM 1709 Views
Interesting... hadn't noticed some of those either. - 26/07/2011 11:32:18 PM 1708 Views
Re: Interesting... hadn't noticed some of those either. - 27/07/2011 02:00:42 AM 1624 Views
Eh? - 29/07/2011 04:44:17 PM 1719 Views
This is complicated. - 31/07/2011 10:43:15 PM 1923 Views
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It is believed the Knight of the Laughing Tree is one of two people - 01/08/2011 04:47:21 AM 1667 Views
Yup. - 02/08/2011 12:03:26 AM 1564 Views
Also... - 02/08/2011 07:17:43 AM 1666 Views
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I've read this scene yesterday and I missed this... - 02/08/2011 07:55:35 AM 1645 Views
Allow me - 05/08/2011 02:14:15 PM 1520 Views
thanks *NM* - 07/08/2011 07:28:21 AM 880 Views
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Hizdahr a Harpy? Innocent or Not? - 26/07/2011 03:36:56 AM 1935 Views
Interesting idea. - 26/07/2011 12:25:11 PM 1732 Views
Re: Interesting idea. - 27/07/2011 04:25:02 PM 1647 Views
What is happening with the Maesters subplot? Any new leads? - 26/07/2011 04:13:27 PM 1662 Views
Re: What is happening with the Maesters subplot? Any new leads? - 27/07/2011 12:49:52 AM 1850 Views
Re: What is happening with the Maesters subplot? Any new leads? - 27/07/2011 03:49:18 AM 1767 Views
Re: A Dance with Dragons discussion thread - 29/07/2011 01:42:57 AM 1773 Views
Okay. I suck. - 29/07/2011 01:50:56 AM 1566 Views
Let me rephrase that... - 29/07/2011 01:54:07 AM 1548 Views
Jon Snow is definitely Azor Ahai. - 29/07/2011 07:31:17 PM 2171 Views
Hmm - 31/07/2011 01:52:03 PM 1912 Views
you are correct - 31/07/2011 11:08:39 PM 1625 Views
Yup. - 31/07/2011 10:49:34 PM 1493 Views
But Shireen is a dragon... - 01/08/2011 12:22:16 AM 1676 Views
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Where did he say that? - 02/08/2011 07:18:39 AM 1749 Views
In interviews - 02/08/2011 02:21:28 PM 1736 Views
A little thought about Jon... - 02/08/2011 08:02:34 AM 1806 Views
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I think Martin's gonna stick to Bran being the only one who does that - 10/08/2011 09:25:12 AM 1658 Views
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She's being trained as an assassin, so the question is who is she going to kill? - 16/08/2011 01:43:12 AM 1567 Views
Jon? - 18/08/2011 09:59:03 PM 1615 Views

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