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The Bookshelf Chronicles Podcast Transcripts

AC Wilson · 993 episodes with transcripts

Welcome to The Bookshelf Chronicles, the podcast exploring the stories that move from the page and screen into entirely new worlds.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Will Adapt George R.R. Martin's Unpublished Pages

October 9, 2026

AC Wilson (0:00)

How do you adapt a book that hasn't actually been written yet?

SPEAKER_2 (0:05)

Well, that is the million-dollar question, isn't it?

AC Wilson (0:07)

Right. Because normally, a television adaptation is basically just a very expensive cover band.

You know what I mean?

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