Neil Gaiman once told an impatient Song of Ice and Fire fan that fancy author George R.R. Martin “ is not your squawk . ” Musician John Anealio has mined Gaiman ’s zinger for comedy gold and turn his citation into a piano ditty .
First off , a little background onthis song(that forgo link leads to the mp3 from Anealio’sSci Fi Songs blog ) . On May 12 , 2009 , a reader named Gareth wrote to Gaiman ’s blog to get the Sandman author ’s notion on A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin ’s discrepant release schedule .
When writing a series of books , like Martin is with “ A Song of Ice and Fire ” what responsibleness does he have to finish the narration ? Is it unrealistic to mean that by not writing the next chapter Martin is letting me down , even though if and when the book gets write is completely up to him ?
And here ’s Neil ’s hilariously candid response . It ’s rather long , so I ’ve picked out the relevant portions . you’re able to read Gaiman ’s entire entertaining rejoinderat his web log .
Yes , it ’s unrealistic of you to think George is “ letting you down ” .
Look , this may not be toothsome , Gareth , and I keep trying to occur up with a good way to put it , but the simplicity of things , at least from my perspective is this :
George R.R. Martin is not your bitch .
This is a useful affair to know , perhaps a useful thing to point out when you find yourself thinking that possibly George is , indeed , your bitch , and should be out there type what you require to learn right now .
People are not machines . author and artists are n’t machine .
You ’re quetch about George doing other things than writing the books you want to read as if your buying the first record book in the serial was a contract bridge with him : that you would compensate over your ten clam , and George for his part would spend every waking hour until the series was done , write the residual of the Quran for you .
No such declaration existed . You were pay your ten dollars for the book of account you were reading , and I presume that you enjoyed it because you want to know what find next .
It seems to me that the big problem with series books is that either readers complain that the books used to be good but that somewhere in the effort to get out a book every year the quality has devolve off , or they complain that the books , although maintaining timber , are n’t coming out on clip .
Gaiman ends with a clarion call to ace - fan everywhere : chill .
And Gareth , in the future , when you see other people complain that George R.R. Martin has been spotted doing something other than writing the book they are wait for , explain to them , more politely than I did the first time , the simple and unanswerable truth : George R. R. Martin is not work for you .
A couple month later , John Anealio turned Gaiman ’s response into a rocking warning to overzealous fans everywhere – “ George R.R. Martin Is Not Your Bitch . ”
If you think the record book are entertaining
It ’s best you stop complaining
writer just are n’t machines
George Martin never signed a contract
To just work on that project
So find something else to read
Have you tried Fevre Dream ?
George RR Martin is not your bitch
No matter how much you gripe
So you might as well go get a life
Mur Lafferty at the Tor blog has a great crack-up ofAnealio ’s other songs(including paeans to Batman and Roger Zelazny ) . you’re able to also purchaseAnealio ’s album Sci - Fi Songsif his line strike your fancy .
Hey , musical intake can come from anywhere . I wonder what George R.R. Martin thinks about a full stranger tunefully memorialise him as “ not a bitch ? ”
[ viaTorandSci Fi Songs ]
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