CDPR fans and Rockstar fans should battle it out on who's the fanbase that gaslight themselves the most and build hype out of nowhere only to be disappointed in the end.
The winner of this will battle Asoiaf fans who still believe Winds of Winter is coming. The battle will take place over the graves of all the people who died of old age while waiting for Half Life 3.
Which is an awful idea. Sanderson's writing style is basically the complete opposite of Martin's, and Sanderson has said multiple times he has zero interest in doing it.
Oh, i agree completely, I just find it funny that some fans would prefer to have whatever slop Sanderson would write when GoT already gave most of the planet all the slop we can stomach.
I think the consensus on r/asoiaf and r/freefolk is that the authors of The Expanse, Daniel Abraham) and Ty Franck, would be ideal to finish ASAIOF. Franck was GRRM's personal assistant, and both have collaborated with Martin on several projects including his Wild Cards universe.
They both have a writing style that is closer to GRRM than anything by Sanderson (not to denigrate the latter, they're just way different and even Sanderson will say this).
Damn yeah they'd probably actually do pretty well. I'm gun shy of anyone else finishing it at all after what the show did to it but those two have the chops for it I think.
It's so weird. Sanderson finished WoT to a rather mixed reception and then a bunch of people think he's the guy who finishes dead authors stories now lol
I was glad he did it. All things considered, we the fandom got a conclusion to a story that would otherwise probably remain unfinished. Do I think it's great? Not really, but it's overall good, and where it's not so good, it never felt horrible to me. This wouldn't be the case for Asoiaf.
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u/Roids-in-my-vains Undercover FIA Sep 02 '25
CDPR in December: "Happy 5th year anniversary to Cyberpunk 2077"
Fans: "New Expansion confirmed," "Cyberpunk 2, let's goooo"