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The Winds of Winter
The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth and penultimate novel of the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American writer George R. R. Martin. The novel, which has been in the works since 2011, has been described as one of the most anticipated books in modern history.
Following the troubled creation of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, which had been released in volumes due to length, Martin began The Winds of Winter with a large amount of content that had been cut from the previous entry. Martin had been optimistic that the book's writing would progress significantly faster than earlier books, initially hoping to complete the book before the television series eclipsed complete material. However, development of The Winds of Winter has been similarly troubled, causing the television series to run out of material after the fifth season and follow its own narrative which was met with an overall mixed critical reception, particularly the final season.
Since 2010 Martin has made numerous predictions regarding imminent publication of the novel, all of which passed without publication. Martin has continued to face controversy due to the delay in completion of The Winds of Winter. He has described the novel as "the curse of my life", and has previously said that he was "struggling" with the manuscript. As of January 2026, Martin has reported that he is still working on finishing The Winds of Winter with around 1,100 pages complete.
Martin stated in a 2012 interview that The Winds of Winter and the following book A Dream of Spring would take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and the Others will appear in the book. The previous installment, A Dance with Dragons, covered less story than Martin intended, excluding at least one planned large battle sequence and leaving several character threads ending in cliffhangers. Martin intends to resolve these storylines "very early" in The Winds of Winter, saying "I'm going to open with the two big battles that I was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle at Meereen—the battle of Slaver's Bay. And then take it from there."
A Victarion Greyjoy chapter will begin five minutes after the end of A Dance with Dragons, taking place on the eve of the Ironborn's arrival in Slaver's Bay. Arianne Martell sample chapters that Martin released on his website showed her heading for Griffin's Roost to meet Young Griff, who is calling himself Aegon Targaryen. At Guadalajara International Book Fair 2016, Martin gave some clues about the dark nature of The Winds of Winter: "I've been telling you for 20 years that winter was coming. Winter is the time when things die, and cold and ice and darkness fill the world, so this is not going to be the happy feel-good that people may be hoping for. Some of the characters [are] in very dark places. .... Things get worse before they get better, so things are getting worse for a lot of people."
The Winds of Winter was originally intended, in the very early stages of the series, to be the final installment of A Song of Ice and Fire (then conceived as a trilogy). Following his expansion of the series, Martin eventually concluded it would be succeeded by one final novel, A Dream of Spring.
Martin believes the last two volumes of the series will be works of more than 1,500 manuscript pages each. He does not intend to separate characters by geography again, as he was forced to do with A Feast for Crows because of the unpublishable length of that novel's original manuscript. But, as he stated in a 2011 interview, "Three years from now when I'm sitting on 1,800 pages of manuscript with no end in sight, who the hell knows". In 2018, he revealed that some of his publishers had suggested splitting The Winds of Winter into two books but that he was "resisting that notion". In 2022, he stated that The Winds of Winter could be bigger than A Storm of Swords or A Dance with Dragons; the manuscript for A Storm of Swords had 1,521 pages and the manuscript for A Dance with Dragons exceeded 1,600 pages before trimming.
By June 2010, Martin had finished four chapters for The Winds of Winter from the viewpoints of Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, and Arianne Martell. In July 2010, he added an Aeron Greyjoy chapter that had been moved from A Dance with Dragons to The Winds of Winter, accumulating around 100 completed manuscript pages. Following the publication of A Dance with Dragons in July 2011, Martin returned to writing the series in January 2012, having spent the intervening time on his U.S. and overseas book publicity tours and attending various conventions.
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The Winds of Winter
The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth and penultimate novel of the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American writer George R. R. Martin. The novel, which has been in the works since 2011, has been described as one of the most anticipated books in modern history.
Following the troubled creation of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, which had been released in volumes due to length, Martin began The Winds of Winter with a large amount of content that had been cut from the previous entry. Martin had been optimistic that the book's writing would progress significantly faster than earlier books, initially hoping to complete the book before the television series eclipsed complete material. However, development of The Winds of Winter has been similarly troubled, causing the television series to run out of material after the fifth season and follow its own narrative which was met with an overall mixed critical reception, particularly the final season.
Since 2010 Martin has made numerous predictions regarding imminent publication of the novel, all of which passed without publication. Martin has continued to face controversy due to the delay in completion of The Winds of Winter. He has described the novel as "the curse of my life", and has previously said that he was "struggling" with the manuscript. As of January 2026, Martin has reported that he is still working on finishing The Winds of Winter with around 1,100 pages complete.
Martin stated in a 2012 interview that The Winds of Winter and the following book A Dream of Spring would take readers farther north than any of the previous books, and the Others will appear in the book. The previous installment, A Dance with Dragons, covered less story than Martin intended, excluding at least one planned large battle sequence and leaving several character threads ending in cliffhangers. Martin intends to resolve these storylines "very early" in The Winds of Winter, saying "I'm going to open with the two big battles that I was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle at Meereen—the battle of Slaver's Bay. And then take it from there."
A Victarion Greyjoy chapter will begin five minutes after the end of A Dance with Dragons, taking place on the eve of the Ironborn's arrival in Slaver's Bay. Arianne Martell sample chapters that Martin released on his website showed her heading for Griffin's Roost to meet Young Griff, who is calling himself Aegon Targaryen. At Guadalajara International Book Fair 2016, Martin gave some clues about the dark nature of The Winds of Winter: "I've been telling you for 20 years that winter was coming. Winter is the time when things die, and cold and ice and darkness fill the world, so this is not going to be the happy feel-good that people may be hoping for. Some of the characters [are] in very dark places. .... Things get worse before they get better, so things are getting worse for a lot of people."
The Winds of Winter was originally intended, in the very early stages of the series, to be the final installment of A Song of Ice and Fire (then conceived as a trilogy). Following his expansion of the series, Martin eventually concluded it would be succeeded by one final novel, A Dream of Spring.
Martin believes the last two volumes of the series will be works of more than 1,500 manuscript pages each. He does not intend to separate characters by geography again, as he was forced to do with A Feast for Crows because of the unpublishable length of that novel's original manuscript. But, as he stated in a 2011 interview, "Three years from now when I'm sitting on 1,800 pages of manuscript with no end in sight, who the hell knows". In 2018, he revealed that some of his publishers had suggested splitting The Winds of Winter into two books but that he was "resisting that notion". In 2022, he stated that The Winds of Winter could be bigger than A Storm of Swords or A Dance with Dragons; the manuscript for A Storm of Swords had 1,521 pages and the manuscript for A Dance with Dragons exceeded 1,600 pages before trimming.
By June 2010, Martin had finished four chapters for The Winds of Winter from the viewpoints of Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, and Arianne Martell. In July 2010, he added an Aeron Greyjoy chapter that had been moved from A Dance with Dragons to The Winds of Winter, accumulating around 100 completed manuscript pages. Following the publication of A Dance with Dragons in July 2011, Martin returned to writing the series in January 2012, having spent the intervening time on his U.S. and overseas book publicity tours and attending various conventions.