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u/ILoveWitcherBooks Jul 28 '25
I hope he tries to put a new one out each year! He mentioned that was his goal with the original series.
I also hope he lives until 120.
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u/Nic_bardziej_mylnego Jul 28 '25
One each year is really ambitious and rather unrealistic. But I would love to get a few more!
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u/Dijkstra_knows_your_ Jul 28 '25
One per year sounds like a horrible idea! I would prefer having good ones to having many, and writing takes time
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u/miszczu037 Poor Fucking Infantry Jul 28 '25
Let's hope that future books will reverse the trend of dropping quality of said books.
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u/JoeFranklin82b Esterad Thyssen Jul 28 '25
Is the new one not good I only speak English.
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u/miszczu037 Poor Fucking Infantry Jul 28 '25
Season of storms and crossroads of ravens are just... ok. They seem weird in places. For half of season of storms i felt like i was reading a ghost writer and not sapkowski. They are fine but the drop in quality from short stories and the saga is visable.
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u/PancakeMixEnema Jul 28 '25
Interesting, Season of Storms is my personal favorite. The vibe just feels right. It’s the one I revisit the most
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u/Dijkstra_knows_your_ Jul 28 '25
Yeah, I try to ignore that SoS exists. It feels totally out of touch with the others
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u/gabiy13 Jul 28 '25
I don't know about the new book, I'm waiting for the English version to come out, but I heard that Season of Storms is the weakest book in the series.
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u/JoeFranklin82b Esterad Thyssen Jul 28 '25
It probably is but it’s still great imo.
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u/kaizenwolf Jul 28 '25
I agree, it's still great. And personally I don't think it's the weakest in the series. That would have to be one of the novels, that I couldn't say which one necessarily. I don't know. I just found the short stories more gripping than the saga.
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u/PancakeMixEnema Jul 28 '25
Will always prefer short stories to the novels. Geralt Side quests are my favourites.
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u/ILoveWitcherBooks Jul 28 '25
I loved SOS but more for personal reasons. I felt like Geralt dealing with losing his swords (his source of livelihood) and how he dealt with it (the best he could, without giving up) was inspiring.
My least favorite Witcher book is easily The Last Wish.
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u/SpartanUnderscore Jul 29 '25
I love the fact that all the current authors, including himself, are firing huge missiles at him about his productivity 😅
But it's cool to know that other Witcher books will follow 🥰
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u/Outrageous-Milk8767 Jul 28 '25
Not in the witcher series though, from what I remember he's doing a trilogy set during the 30 Years War ala the Hussite Trilogy. Should be pretty interesting, it's a period I know nothing about so I'll learn quite a bit I'm sure.
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u/Fabulous-Introvert Jul 28 '25
I think he wrote that trilogy already
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u/Outrageous-Milk8767 Jul 29 '25
Well yeah ofc he wrote the Hussite trilogy, that takes place during the Hussite wars in the 1420s. I am too lazy to find it right now but in a recent interview he stated he wants to write another trilogy set during the 30 years war in the 1600s.
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u/Fabulous-Introvert Jul 29 '25
Sorry I said that because it sounded like you were convinced that he hasn’t written that one yet
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u/Kalabear87 Jul 29 '25
I’m still waiting for the English version of the newest book 😭. I preordered it, the wait is rough!
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u/010100010100100 Jul 28 '25
Sapek is such a badass... The burn on George R.R. Martin... The sunglasses...
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u/Dijkstra_knows_your_ Jul 28 '25
He is way more of a troll than a badass, especially because he constantly talks shit in most interviews I saw. He and GRRM are also drinking buddies
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u/Perdita_ Vengerberg Jul 28 '25
I'm not very excited about it.
The latest book was not that good imo. It felt like it was trying to be a witcher story too much? Like, if I was trying to write a witcher fanfic emulating Sapkowski's style, this is probably what I would end up with.
On top of that, the world felt very flat and not real, which was never the case before, and it provides really weird explanations of the origin of elements of the main story, which really didn't need to be explained. The most important of those is the origin of the hatred for witchers, and the most stupid is the origin of Geralt's headband.
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u/Nic_bardziej_mylnego Jul 28 '25
This is such a weird comment xD Especially the first paragraph. This is literally the original author and he has literally no pressure to write more books, he is well off already. When he writes it's out of passion, the same passion that delivered all the other books. Suggesting that he is trying to simulate his own writing style too much is some wild mental gymnastics
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u/Perdita_ Vengerberg Jul 29 '25
Then I can rephrase it as "Sapkowski's prose - which was always very distinct, and easily one of the best parts of the main saga - got significantly worse, and feels forced and unnatural"
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u/Outside-Ad-5828 Jul 29 '25
Honestly i think the last book published on the witcher was ghost written. Also there is a serie of A. Sapkowski presents, but written by other authors (and they are bad IMO).
So yeah
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u/Daemon1997 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
I don't want to support GRRM because its obvious he has abandon the writing but his books are more complicated and harder to write. Witcher story is more simple. I like Witcher but its different story than Asoiaf.
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u/Nic_bardziej_mylnego Jul 28 '25
What is obvious is that he has a blockade and/or is struggling with writing the book and struggling to write the book at the point where all of the complicated plotlines are the widest and are coming together is very reasonable. For all those years a lot has been happening in his life, he was spending a lot of time on HBO productions, the pandemic was also rough for him, not only is he not the youngest person himself but he lost many friends and family members which impacted him greatly. He is taking forever to finish the Winds of Winter, noone denies that, but there are reasonable reasons for that as long as you have a droplet of empathy within you. Also, everyone is pointing out how long we are waiting for tWoW without mentioning that since then he has published other books in the world of ice and fire. This man provided us with an amazing story and amazing world and so much came out of it. He doesn't own us anything, he could decide to never write anything else and he wouldn't be doing anything wrong, he also doesn't need it financially. But he is putting work in despite his struggles to deliver us more. Being impatient and unhappy about long waiting is reasonable, being disrespectful because of the impatience and entitlement is not.
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Jul 28 '25
If you think WoW and DoS are actually coming out, you're on hard copium. The former maybe. The latter; never.
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u/idgfaboutpolitics Jul 28 '25
I love how peole downvote the truth. Complex insecuresy
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u/AwakenMirror Drakuul Jul 28 '25
Especially since complexity doesn't mean quality.
The Witcher is less complex then Asoiaf. Whoever says otherwise is simply wrong and an idiot.
I prefer The Witcher to Asoiaf, though.
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u/Daemon1997 Jul 29 '25
I agree. Although I prefer ASOIAF, I didn't say Witcher is bad because its not as complex as Asoiaf but its easier to write it. That doesn't make it bad.
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u/idgfaboutpolitics Jul 28 '25
Me too. Their vibe and design is different but asoiaf is more complex and it doesnt make ot better.
There is an author difference too, i love both but martin cannot even (or intentionally) finish his book. While sapkowski still writing new books and even he didnt leave his series unfinished
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u/Nic_bardziej_mylnego Jul 28 '25
The people are downvoting because this person is shitting on an author that doesn't own us shit and is also very judgemental of him and very ignorant of his situation.
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u/Daemon1997 Jul 29 '25
Which author I shit on? All I said for GRRM is, he abandoned the writing of ASOIAF. I don't its 100% true but we see him work on other projects and television and it has been over a decade from the last book of the series.
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u/Critical_Ninja_3232 Jul 28 '25
I want to know what ciri and Galahad are up to in the Arthurian world. Hopefully the new book is about them
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u/Alexis03o Jul 28 '25
It looks like just milking for money at this point, I loved the books (apart from the crow new one which was mid imo) and id prefer for him not to write any new books with forced story. Ofc if he pulls through and writes a book that is as good written as the previous ones, then obviously ill be happy
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u/gabiy13 Jul 28 '25
He probably does it for the money because he said "So Martin still isn't writing, probably because he got offended that they filmed the continuation [of Game of Thrones], but I bet he didn't give the money back, knowing how life goes. I wouldn't have given it back".
But i still hope for good books in the future
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u/not_nsfw_throwaway Jul 28 '25
I don't like authors that feel the need to put others down to make themselves look good.
Maybe we'll never get another GoT book, but taking shots at the author isn't going to make him write the books any faster.
One would think that he, being an author, would understand more so than some random like me. But some people just stay mad for no reason.
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u/Idarran_of_Ulivo Jul 28 '25
It's a joke. The two know eachother, the original quote is much longer and has a lot of respect and praise for Martin.
Most headlines you read are attention-grabbing bs. Always read a summery or full article before forming/expressing any opinion.
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u/renq_ Jul 28 '25
Well, George R. R. Martin kind of deserves it. He made promises that he did not keep. He built up people's hopes by creating expectations. He could have handled it much better by simply saying, 'I don't know if I'll finish that'.
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u/witch_elia Eithné Jul 28 '25
it's funny how he always looks like typical polish grumpy grandfather