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Muscles posted...

The 3rd book is coming out in November

It's not.



kind9 posted...

That doesn't look like book three. It's a novella set in the same universe. Book three was always supposed to be titled The Doors of Stone.

It's going to be another book like The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Set in the same universe, but not the conclusion of the original story.

It's not even wholly original - it's just an expanded version of a short story he already published 10 years ago. So there's even less effort put into it than you might think at first glance.

Rothfuss is a slacker.



kind9 posted...

Patrick Rothfuss said that the 3rd book is already complete and just needed to be handed off to the editor. That was about 10-15 years ago. Actually he said the whole trilogy was complete and would release in 2007.

And the editor said she'd doubted he'd written a single word of it. And she said that in 2020.

I'm convinced he found himself in a similar situation that George RR Martin did - neither one of them actually know how to finish their stories anymore, so they're procrastinating working on them until the fans stop caring and leave them alone.

The difference is that Rothfuss likely still cares about his world and the fans and wants to finish, he's just too distracted by all the other stuff literary fame has allowed him to do (charity work, podcasting, playing D&D, game dev, writing comics, hanging out with semi-celebs, etc). Whereas Martin now hates the setting and hates the fans, so will only ever finish the final ASoIaF books if he needs money. Which he never will because of all the money he got paid by HBO. Basically, he wants to die leaving it unfinished so the fans can suffer.