The Winds of Winter remains unfinished, with George R.R. Martin confirming in January 2024 that he still has roughly 1,100 manuscript pages completed and no publication date in sight, more than a decade after he began work on the next instalment in A Song of Ice and Fire.
The 75-year-old author, speaking in recent interviews and through his publisher, has repeatedly acknowledged the stalled progress, leaving readers to contemplate whether the sixth volume will arrive by 2028 or not at all.
