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Sanderson was a huge Wheel of Time fan which is part of why he could take over and finish that series. The dude reread the series after every book came out. I don't know if he's as huge of a fan of Game of Thrones.
Yeah, Sanderson is my favorite author of all time but I don't see him finishing Game of Thrones. It's a completely different style from what he writes, he probably wouldn't even enjoy writing it, and tbh I don't even think he would do a good job of it.
He talked about this 8 years ago on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4uwjq9/spoilers_everything_twow_isnt_coming_this_year_is/d6lotl1?context=3
He agrees with you. It's not his style, he doesn't think he's the right person for the job, and would decline if asked to do it.
And to the point made by @[email protected], at the time he had only read the first book so it doesn't seem that he's in the "huge fan" category.
Maybe something has changed since then but I really doubt it.
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/wheel-of-time-faq
While you are supporting me on that other point, I have to say, Sanderson was a HUGE fan of Robert Jordan
I should have worded that better. I meant that he's not a huge fan of ASOIAF so it's quite different from the WoT situation.
Ah that makes sense, didnt even occur to me that you could have been talking about ASOIAF haha
He actually had a writer's circle that will probably be tapped to finish the job.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078MS44G8
It's about angels fucking things up for feudal humans who ride dinosaurs.
It's wild, and I unironically love it.
There's absolutely no way he'd have a gotten a blurb from Martin if they weren't friends, but it's either one of those guys or someone like Joe Abercrombie.