With the the sixth season of Game of Thrones underway, and no The Winds of Winter to guide us, many book fans might be feeling a little resentful that the show is giving away all the plot points ahead of the books publication. George R.R. Martin has been working hard to comfort us that the books are diverging even further from the show than they already had, especially now that the show has forged ahead of him, and is committing itself in stone things that he can still treat as fluid.
And just in case we needed a reminder of that, he’s even gone and changed out the excerpt from the forthcoming novel on his personal website. For the last year, the excerpt has been that of a Sansa chapter…excuse me “Alayne” as she’s called in the books currently… functioning as a silent reminder all through last season, as we watched Sansa returned to Winterfell, and marry Ramsay Bolton, only to realize her incredibly terrible life choices, that NONE of this would be happening on the page. In the books, Sansa is not even revealed to be who she is, instead obediently pretending to be Littlefinger’s bastard daughter Alayne Stone. (Hence the chapter name.)
Now Martin has swapped that chapter out for one set in Dorne, from the point of view of a character who is not even in the show at all–Arianne Martell, the only legitimate daughter of the Martell clan, and heir to the kingdom. Click here to read it.
Now, for those getting excited that this is proof Martin has written more, don’t get your hopes quite that high. This is a chapter Martin has been reading aloud to fans at conventions for years. (It was first read aloud at Worldcon in 2011.) But it is the first time he’s published it on his website. (It is the second Arianne chapter he’s release from the forthcoming novel. The first can be found archived here.)
The chapter comes with a statement on the NotABlog that The Winds of Winter is progressing though.
You want to know what the Sand Snakes, Prince Doran, Areo Hotah, Ellaria Sand, Darkstar, and the rest will be up to in WINDS OF WINTER? Quite a lot, actually. The sample will give you a taste. For the rest, you will need to wait.
And no, just to spike any bullshit rumors, changing the sample chapter does NOT mean I am done. See the icon up above? Monkey is still on my back… but he’s growing, he is, and one day…
So the Dornish are up to quite a lot in the books huh? Some wonder if that is a dig at the show, which unceremoniously killed off the Dorne storyline at the beginning of the season with no sign of returning to it anytime soon. Whether or not Martin means it that way is up to debate. (But I’m guessing he’ll say it is not. He has been nothing but positive and polite to those who have taken over his tale for the small serialized screen.) But for those who feel like the show has given Dorne the short end of the stick, here martin provides us a reminder that the books will–when they finally arrive–be there for you to do right by them.
(And for those books readers who sign heavily at the idea of slogging through more Damn Dornish chapters, sorry!)
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/05/11/martin-publishes-chapter-from-the-winds-of-winter-on-his-site/
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