Tell me if you’ve heard this one: a renowned author with a magnificent beard releases a best-selling fantasy book — part of a beloved ongoing series — in 2011. Then, for the next eight years, fans continually pester him about why he isn’t working on the follow-up, and he starts to downplay it, and not mention it as much on his blog, and takes time to work on other projects, and all the while we’re just wondering when he’s finally going to continue the story.
I am talking, of course, about Patrick Rothfuss, author or the Kingkiller Chronicle. The second book in that series, The Wise Man’s Fear, hit store shelves in 2011. We’ve waiting for the third and purportedly final book, The Doors of Stone, for a good long while. Why the holdup?
I, your Winter Boyfriend, would like to make you a drink that will warm you on this cold, dark night. pic.twitter.com/LIMAakDKfU
— Pat Rothfuss (@PatrickRothfuss) March 3, 2019
Well, we don’t know, but Rothfuss did at least make passing reference to the wait in a recent blog post:
"One of the things I’ve been doing is getting my literal and figurative house in order so that I can go back to getting more creative work done. I know this might come as a surprise to a lot of you, but I have a couple ongoing projects that I’d *really* like to finish before the heat death of the universe."
And then he goes on to talk about a graphic novel he wants help coloring — most likely an adaptation of The Boy Who Loved the Moon, a story told in folk tale form in The Wise Man’s Fear — but surely The Doors of Stone is one of the things he wants to finish before the universe ends…right?
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The similarities between the wait for Doors and the wait for George R.R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter are striking, although Rothfuss doesn’t receive the volume of attention that Martin has. That’s probably because the Kingkiller Chronicle doesn’t have as big a following as A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, but that soon could change. Lionsgate is trying to adapt Rothfuss’ trilogy as a series of movies, while Showtime is making a series set before the events of the main books. Then he and Martin will be able to share some war stories.
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h/t Newsweek