It’s no secret that A Song of Ice and Fire scribe George R. R. Martin doesn’t even seem that interested in completing The Winds of Winter, the penultimate (haha, unless) novel in the saga that began with A Game of Thrones back in 1991. However, just for fun, let’s run through all of the things he’s been working on instead and what has transpired with ASOIAF as a franchise.
The most recently published volume in the ASOIAF series, A Dance with Dragons, was published on July 12, 2011, a few months after Game of Thrones Season 1 debuted on HBO. That year, “Khaleesi” debuts as a baby name in the United States according Social Security with 27 reported infants named after Daenerys Targaryen’s Dothraki title. That number is much higher today.
