People often ask, “Oh, are you going to kill off our favorite character, are you going to do these things that we recognize as part of what has become a brand or a style of storytelling?” And the fact is that none of those things matter without a well-drawn world, without well-drawn characters, without that conflict. It cuts across all genres and forms, I don’t care if you’re doing a police show or if you’re doing a science fiction show in deep space or a fantasy with dragons.īuhler: I think that’s what gives rise to those elements of storytelling that people now associate with George. I often quote Faulkner, who in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech said the human heart in conflict with itself is the only thing worth writing about. Martin: The other thing that is important to me is the characters. I think “Nightflyers” the novella has some of that, and I think these guys are capturing some of that. I try to take my readers by surprise, not to just do the same story they’ve done a thousand times before. I don’t like television or books or movies that are too predictable. Martin: Hopefully they’ll find, number one, surprises. Will fans of “Game of Thrones” find something familiar in “Nightflyers”? So even in that case I’m not as involved.īut hopefully I can still exert some sort of influence on some of these, and it’s a case of trusting your babies to people you hope will raise them right and not abuse them. … I visited the set once or twice a year in the early years but I haven’t done that in a number of years, I’m trying to get the books done. Even on “Game of Thrones,” David Benioff and Weiss are the showrunners.
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