Epic fail

* My friend Rich brought this article to my attention yesterday: The perils and pleasures of long-running fantasy series. It's about what (if anything) writers of vast, volume-and-decade spanning epics owe their readers, and whether it's inevitable that books of such unbridled magnitude will break your heart.

* As someone who's left people hanging on the cliff, I sympathize. I can only imagine how much George R. R. Martin has changed as a person since beginning A Song of Ice and Fire, or how m...