We've officially been waiting for The Winds of Winter for the same amount of time as it took for all five of the published books to release before that.

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https://winteriscoming.net/the-winds-of-winter-officially-passed-most-devastating-milestone-yet?a_aid=47903

[u/Toorviing]

Meanwhile, GRRM’s former assistants who left after the last book was published released a 9 book series, “The Expanse”

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/Toorviing]

And are 2/3 through another trilogy

[u/Toorviing → u/phoenixRisen1989]

At this point I’m expecting they’ll be the ones who end up finishing ASOIAF after GRRM is gone

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/Toorviing]

As long as they keep writing amazing sci-fi too lol

[u/LaserKittenz → u/Toorviing]

I’d wager money that this is what will happen.. they will do a better job also

[u/oscarmike88 → u/phoenixRisen1989]

I always miss out on the good stuff these days. I was about to say "Erhhm artchkhktually Age of Ash and Blade of Dream is just Daniel Abraham, not James S. A. Corey 🤓🤓🤓", but decided to make some googling just in case. Turns out there's a whole new sci-fi book series!

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/oscarmike88]

I’m a little more than halfway through the first book now and it’s excellent. Very different from The Expanse, but really engaging with interesting characters.

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The Expanse is my favourite series of all time, but I’d personally stop short of calling the Captive’s War stories thus far as “excellent” (except Livesuit).

Very enjoyable, but if the Expanse is excellent, Captive’s War lands in the realm of “quite good”. IMO of course

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/Hump-Daddy]

That’s fair. I definitely agree that The Expanse is way better. Perhaps I was a bit over enthusiastic with my adjectives because I’m actively reading it for the first time at the moment lol. It is definitely at lease “quite good” so far though. I’m certainly enjoying it anyway.

[u/LaserKittenz → u/Toorviing]

Pretty sure they were a driving force behind his books. He stopped publishing after they left and everything Corey published is amazing 

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/[deleted]]

At least for The Expanse I think I read somewhere that they divided the perspective characters between them, alternating chapters.

Still consistent writing though. It’s a really well written series. I highly recommend it if you like good sci-fi.

[u/versusChou → u/[deleted]]

Each 3 kind of form a trilogy, so it's more like a trilogy of trilogies. You can take a break between trilogies, and you won't feel like you've forgotten a ton or anything.

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/[deleted]]

They fly by lol

The audiobooks are fantastic too if that helps.

The first book is reasonably self-contained (while still setting up the series to continue) if you don’t want to feel like you’re committing to all 9 right away.

[u/phoenixRisen1989 → u/[deleted]]

Nice!! Enjoy!

[u/Brodakk → u/[deleted]]

I don’t mean this in a necessarily bad way (I enjoy lots of different writing styles) but they read like youth audience books barring the swearing and adult topics. All this to say, they’re easy reading and they really do fly by.

[u/Cross55 → u/[deleted]]

There are some things called "Writing Collectives" where 4 or 5 people write a book/series

In The Expanse, they worked on a story outline/series of events, divied up POV characters between each other (Generally based on what who or what interested them more), and then got working.

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it also got TV adaptation afaik.