Little did Andrezj Sapkowski imagine in 1986, when he wrote the story The Witcher for a contest (where he didn’t even win), that the saga would make him a millionaire and that forty years later he would still be writing about the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, even though some only know The Witcher from Netflix or, of course, from his video game series.
Toss a coin to your novelist
Now, at 76 years old and a decade after Storm Season, he has declared that he already has a new book prepared with Geralt as the central protagonist, perhaps in response to a Netflix series that, despite being announced as faithful, took all kinds of creative liberties, and to a game that goes straight to the point, with its own continuity.
For now, all we know is that the novel is completely finished and will not be part of the pentalogy that made the character famous and culminated in 1999 with The Lady of the Lake. However, even though he has stated that he will go on his own, he has not been able to leave the door open for a future saga. Hey, who knows.
“I don’t have any plans right now. I finished the book. It took me maybe two years or so,” he said, unintentionally embarrassing the other great author of epic novels, George RR Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire has been on hiatus for a long time and he is unable to continue with it. And if you’re wondering when these new adventures will be released, they are expected to come out in winter of this year.
Interestingly, it will coincide with the release of the new anime spin-off of the series, Sirens of the Deep, and with the filming of that new season on Netflix that, after the departure of Henry Cavill, there are not a few who look at it with suspicion. It had to be Sapkowski himself who slammed his fist on the table to make it clear that there is a future for his saga… but he will mark it himself. Witchcraft stuff.
