The last time George RR Martin published a novel in his A Song of Ice and Fire series was in 2011 when Game of Thrones was debuting on HBO.

Since then, the 76-year-old has continued to work on the penultimate book, The Winds of Winter, which still doesn’t have a publication date over five years after the TV show ended.

At one point, he was rushing to get it written before season 6 began development, but in the end, he gave the showrunners his planned plot points for his last two books so…