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Today marks the 68th birthday of author George R.R. Martin. He’s already having a heck of a birthday week. As those who know the author’s history will recall, Martin started out writing in television. It was his experience working on Beauty and the Beast in the late 80s/early 90s that caused him to quit the medium all together and go off and start writing a novel. At the time, when he first settled down to write the planned trilogy of A Song of Ice and Fire, one of his chief ideas was to design and build a world so large in breadth and scope that it would be “unfilmable for television.”
That as a gift for his 68th birthday he should see that show grow to be the largest television show ever produced in breadth and scope, and correspondingly become the most awarded drama production in the history of the Emmys must both be bone deep satisfying even as it is ironic. Martin didn’t set out to change the medium of television. He walked away from it. That fate turned him back to it, and showed him that television could indeed be as wide and deep as his imagination is a testament to the Golden Age of of entertainment that we’re living in today.
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So on this momentous day, let us not ask where The Winds of Winter is, even though I know you’re all thinking it. Even if Martin never finishes his magnum opus story of the battle for the soul of mankind on Westeros, his imagination and his story has changed the world of entertainment, and whether a couple of novels ever get finished isn’t going to change that.
Instead let us all say thank you to Martin for creating this world that is so complex and deep that we can spend hours on the internet arguing over the finer points of fantasy history, like citadel scholars on their way to the library. We hope your birthday is a fabulous one.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/09/20/happy-birthday-george-r-r-martin/
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