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"  (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) If you&amp;#039;re afraid George R.R. Martin might die before he finishes his massively popular A Song of Ice and Fire saga, you&amp;#039;re not alone. So many people have openly wondered about the 65-year-old author&amp;#039;s age and slow pace that he&amp;#039;s getting a little testy, and has a few choice words for all of us. Interviewed by Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger over the weekend, Martin said &amp;quot;so f*ck you to those people&amp;quot; who claim he will kick the bucket before finishing the series. The inspiration behind HBO&amp;#039;s hugely popular Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire currently stands at five novels, with Martin slaving away on the sixth, The Winds of Winter, on his antiquated word processor. Martin hopes to finish the saga with a seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, but recently hinted at the possibility that it could take him eight books to reach the end. He considers the questions about his health to be &amp;quot;pretty offensive.&amp;quot; But it&amp;#039;s hard to blame the fans, especially with Martin&amp;#039;s pace slowing from two years to write the early books in the saga to five or six years to write the more recent volumes. After events like the traumatizing Stephen King scare, where many fans thought his The Dark Tower series would never be finished, fans will overreact to even the characters. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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