It has been more than a decade since George R.R. Martin first promised the sixth novel in his epic A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter, and fans are no closer to discovering the fate of Westeros.
The author has now given perhaps the clearest and most brutal sign yet that the book remains unfinished—not through a progress update, but in his outspoken comments regarding the influence of artificial intelligence in modern publishing. Is the man who created Game of Thrones now so consumed by fighting the future of authorship that the book will be put off forever?
