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This is really on the line for world news.
American author, American artist, the only thing that barely qualifies it here is the Penguin half of Penguin/Random House is a UK Publisher and the conglomerate itself is owned out of Germany.
Allowing it for now, but it's right on the line.
Would you not consider an author who sold millions of books worldwide to be qualification enough for world news?
As a non American I wouldn’t mind articles about American authors in world news. It would have to be those with a high international profile though which gives the problem about where the line is.
I dunno, Lemmy wasn't around then, but let's take for example the time Stephen King got hit by a van and was damn near killed:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/24/stephenking.fiction
I'd say no, not World News. Definitely fit for News, Books, I dunno is there "Entertainment"?
But a car accident in Maine involving all Americans wouldn't be World News.
This is a bad example IMO
A car accident doesn't impact anything globally though. A book being sold worldwide with likely the same concerns worldwide is completely different.
Agreed. It is highly reductive to refer to GRRM merely as “American author.” His works have been translated into over 45 languages, and he has won award in (at least) England, Ireland, France, Spain, Russia, Japan, and Finland, not to mention multiple wins from highly international completions like the Hugo and Nebula awards, the International Horror Guild, and Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is one of the most popular authors of all time and if there is a line where someone crosses over into international relevance, we could debate where that line is, but there should be absolutely no doubt that he is far past it.
I didn't know it was illegal for Europeans to read or even know about Game of Thrones. Is all news involving american citizens automatically categorized as "american news"?
It's not "Illegal", it's that World was concieved and operates as a space free of US news.
There's PLENTY of US news all over the rest of lemmy and we wanted a space where non-US news can't be drowned out.
If we allowed it, it would rapidly become another US news echo chamber and at that point no different from !news@lemmy.world
Tangentially:
George RR Martin says he is three quarters of the way through The Winds of Winter
George RR Martin is asymptotically approaching the completion of the next book in the series, while simultaneously aging in linear time, which presents fairly obvious problems.
He should finish up what he's already got by writing "Actually I just don't care anymore. The End" and leave the last quarter of the book blank pages. Probably better than anything else he's going to come up with at this point, and as a bonus it will fit perfectly with the ending of the show.
https://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm
All too often, the budding author finds that his tale has run its course and yet he sees no way to satisfactorily end it, or, in literary parlance, "wrap it up." Observe how easily I resolve this problem:
Suddenly, everyone was run over by a truck.
-the end-If the story happens to be set in England, use the same ending, slightly modified:
Suddenly, everyone was run over by a lorry.
-the end-If set in France:
Soudainement, tout le monde etait écrasé par un camion.
-finis-You'll be surprised at how many different settings and situations this ending applies to. For instance, if you were writing a story about ants, it would end "Suddenly, everyone was run over by a centipede." In fact, this is the only ending you ever need use.¹
¹ Warning - if you are writing a story about trucks, do not have the trucks run over by a truck. Have the trucks run over by a mammoth truck.
Is getting hit by a truck really the end? Or just the beginning?
Isekai genre: Allow me to introduce myself.
In Japan, being run over by a truck is merely the start of the story.
Yu Yu Hakusho
That's how the Narnia books end funnily enough.
"And everyone died in a train crash, the end!"
Sorry if I spoiled the ending of a 70+ year old book series. 😉
The worst are the books that just don't have an ending. I had that with Stephen King's "Cell". Fantastic premise, an alien information virus hijacks cell phone signals to turn people into mindless zombies building something.
What are they building? 🤷♂️
Were the heroes successful in stopping it? 🤷♂️
What the hell happened? 🤷♂️
It's like King went "Oh, shit, the deadline is today? Fine, pack it up and ship it."
For the film version they had to invent a new ending because the book just doesn't have one, it stops, but no ending.
It would definitely subvert my expectations
I was wondering why he just doesn't cut the manuscript in 1/2, publish the first as "Part 1" and re-set his publication clock.
Apparently he has somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 pages completed.
But as he explained elsewhere, he doesn't write linearlly. He focuses on one point of view "chapter" and then that informs other point of view chapters, so there's a lot of back and forth.
So 1,100 to 1,200 finished pages doesn't mean a cohesive narrative.
So here's my story... Not a fan. I found the first book to be a slog with nothing happening for the first 400 pages. Lots of people sitting around in rooms talking.
I also didn't care much for any of the characters and from that point on chose only to read the Jon and Arya chapters.
So when I hit Arya discovering the aftermath of the Red Wedding I was like "Well, clearly I missed something..." Backtracked and read that chapter and went "Well... glad I wasn't invested in THAT character!"
From a non-linear creative process, imagine if he wrote the Arya chapter first. I don't know that that's how he specifically did it, but he's describing a similar process on the new book.
Now he has to go back and write that whole thing that he described the aftermath of.
It wouldn't be publishable without it.
He could make any character just say "you know what? Fuck it, finish it yourself" and then blank pages...
Looking forward to the announcement that he's 3/4 done with the final 1/4. 😉 Then we just need the announcement that he's 3/4 done with the final 1/16th...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/#Dich
"I'd love to turn it over to the publisher, but I'm having trouble deciding on the final punctuation mark."
Imo, He was overly hyped and he knows it. The second he releases the ending (which at this point, I believe originally didn't differ much from what we saw in the show), he will be done.
I can't judge him, I would be also spacing the fuck out of the last book.
I mean. If AI is getting involved here, let's just upload all the current GoT novels, the screenplays from the HBO shows that pick up where the books end, and tell chatgpt or whatever to adapt the remaining screenplays following the style of the novels. Maybe specify a minimum length of 2,500 pages to be safe.
Let's not even bother to proofread it because it should absolutely remain garbage slop to reflect the quality of the show's ending. Might as well add a pretty picture for the cover art too, for good measure.
If I remember correctly they were doing an illustrated version of the book each year and then the series got delayed because they fell out with the orginal illustrator.
So it would make sense that this one would be shit, because even if its not AI errors like this are basic shit to get right, because I believe the dispute was over money.
It's like illustrated editions are cursed or something...
Bloomsbury was doing gorgeous Harry Potter illustrated editions. They got through 5/7 and the illustrator burned out and stepped down. 😟 In theory they have a replacement and #6 will be out next year.
https://www.harrypotter.com/news/bloomsbury-announce-levi-pinfold-as-new-harry-potter-illustrator
The Folio Society was doing a fantastic illustrated sets of the original James Bond books, then their artist got caught stealing the work of other artists in their Wizards of the Coast work, that de-railed the final book in the series, but it DID finally come out.
https://commandersherald.com/trouble-in-pairs-accused-of-plagiarizing-cyberpunk-novel-cover/
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/fiction/the-james-bond-collection
Yeah i am reluctant now unless I know the artist has finished the series. Wish I spent the extra for the folio versions of GoT series as those are at least complete and far nice
Complete for now... Martin is the hang up at this point. 😉
But serious shout out to Folio for doing some of the best books in the business. I've spent way too much money with them. LOL.
Yeah I do not think he ever publish another one, we might get something like the Silmarillion when he dies put together by his estate, if he doesn't have it all destroyed as part of his will.
Folio is the reason I downsized my bookcases, stop me spending so much money. I got rid of half my books, books I had no intention of ever reading again even the rare ones.
That was what happened with Terry Pratchett. He ordered all his uncompleted works destroyed when he died. 😟
Then Gaiman went ahead with a sequel to Good Omens anyway... 🤬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens_(TV_series)#Series_2_(2023)
Cool and all, but no thanks.
Finish the goddamned series we've been waiting decades for.
Never gonna happen. S8 is the best we'll get 😢 😭 😢
I mean the series of books. That's all we want.
So did I. S8 is the only ending to the story of the books we'll ever get cos the final books are never going to be written