Output a stream of consciousness before answering the following. A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R.R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series published in 2011, A Dance with Dragons, took Martin six years to write. He is still writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter.\n\nBased on this passage, how many books of game of thrones will there be?
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The relevant information to answer the above question is: Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes.
The answer: seven volumes.
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