r/memes • u/Kapanash • 7h ago

When the author becomes the final boss

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u/agnostic-alien 5h ago

My call: He's already older than the average life expectancy for males in the United States. As soon as he's gone his publishers will turn into a very shitty version of Christopher Tolkien and slap together what material and notes they can find and glue it tight by AI or an underpaid ghostwriter to squeeze out the most profit out of the IP before it's gone forever

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u/loulan 2h ago

The problem is that he started too many plot lines. That's why he doesn't manage to finish the series, he can't do that in a book or a few books.

The AI or the ghost writer will have to write 20 more books to finish the story, à la Wheel of Time.

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u/Money-Perspective-87 1h ago

Nothing a wight invasion cannot handle..

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u/Suspicious_Truth8026 42m ago

Good

I would rather have my favourite asoiaf-obsessed youtubers form a coalition to finish the books, but the archaic ass copyright system wouldnt allow that. Whoever has the rights should feel morally obligated to release whatever they can.

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u/Duncekid101 3h ago

And some of us would be very happy with it.

Or as Bobby G said: "Give me something for the pain and let me die."