George RR Martin is working on a brand new graphic novel that he dreamed of ‘long before’ Game Of Thrones’ Westeros.
The prolific author shared that he has been busy developing the script for the series, titled Voyaging, while also juggling with Winds Of Winter, the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.
‘The Thousand Worlds stories spanned centuries and light years and had their own cast of heroes, villains, legends, and colorful characters… none of them more colorful than the trader (and ecological engineer) Haviland Tuf, the protagonist of a long series of stories I collected together in the fix up Tuf Voyaging,’ Martin penned as he announced the project.
‘I always meant to write more Tuf stories.
‘At one point, back in the 80s, I planned a second collection of stories (Twice As Tuf) and a full-length Tuf novel (Tuf Landing)… but, alas, other novels and television and Ice & Fire came along, and what with one thing and another I never got around to writing them.’
Writing on his blog, he continued: ‘From time to time, I’ve even played with the idea of a television series about Tuf and his adventures… the stories are presently under option, as it happens, but… well, that hasn’t come to pass yet either.
‘But I am thrilled to be able to say that Haviland Tuf and his cats (he likes cats, y’see) are coming back… in a graphic novel.’
Martin went onto reveal that he has closed a deal at Ten Speed Press and Random House for Voyaging, which is an adaptation of his novella The Plague Star.
The story is the earliest in Tuf’s personal timeline, with the official synopsis teasing it follows a group of ‘unlikely spacefaring rogues on a mysterious mission involving unfathomable galactic fame and fortune (but only if they can survive)’.
In April, Martin explained that he was falling behind with his long-awaited Game Of Thrones book The Winds Of Winter, saying that trying to catch up is ‘feeling increasingly oppressive’.
‘My life has become one of extremes these past few months,’ he wrote. ‘Some days I do not know whether to laugh or cry, to shoot off fireworks and dance in the streets or crawl back into bed and pull the covers over my head.
‘The good stuff that has been happening to me has been very very very good, the kind of thing that will make a year, or a career. But the bad stuff that is happening has been very very very bad, and it is hard to cherish the good and feel the joy when the shadows are all around.’
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