Book readers have always been ahead of the game when it came to the story unfolding on screen, but season six will shake that up. With George R. R. Martin still trying to finish the sixth book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter (which would roughly correspond to the sixth season), the showrunners don't have the blueprint of the books to follow. During the show's Comic-Con panel, showrunner Carolyn Strauss commented that writers were talking to Martin "as much as they have before," but now, everyone watching season six will be getting the story for the first time together.
Most interesting, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the showrunners claimed that the show won't spoil the books for readers.
