After a month off in the UK and Europe for business and pleasure, George RR Martin is finally back home in Santa Fe.

The 75-year-old famously only works on his novels on his old DOS running computer which doesn’t travel with him.

This means the author hasn’t written a word of the 13 year delayed The Winds of Winter since the first half of July.

And given what else he has to do, it doesn’t sound like there will be much more progress any time soon.

As a result, Game of Thrones fans are…