kingkiller chronicles the doors of stone

“I worked on The Wise Man’s Fear for a long time and there were a ton of problems with it,” Rothfuss said, “and it didn’t match up with the first book anymore in a lot of places because I had changed so much and improved it and characters had been added and character stories had been developed and expanded on. Reconciling those is part of the reason why it’s taking so long to write the third and final book. But that created inconsistencies between his original version of the story and the published version.

He wrote out the entire thing, in fact, and then polished up the first part into the book that became The Name of the Wind. But as he explains in a stream, Rothfuss actually started writing this story over a decade before that. That means that is, among other things, hopping on streams and answering fan questions, including a few about the progress of the long-awaited third book in his fantasy trilogy, The Doors of Stone.įans have been waiting for The Doors of Stone for almost a decade The Wise Man’s Fear, the last volume, came out in 2011, with The Name of the Wind kicking off the whole thing in 2007.

Kingkiller Chronicleauthor Patrick Rothfuss is out there helping raise money for Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit that supports humanitarian efforts worldwide. Straight from the author’s lips to your ears: By Dan Selcke 2 years ago Fans of the Kingkiller Chronicle have been waiting nearly a decade for the third and final book in the series.

Kingkiller chronicles the doors of stone