While you wait for book three, authors die!

The title of this post is slightly sensationalist, but in a literary sense it's actually very true. I mentioned recently that I've finally started reading A Game Of Thrones, which is the first book in George R R Martin's A Song Of Ice & Fire series. This comment lead to a few discussions in various places that has subsequently lead to this post.

When I mentioned that I was finally getting around to reading A Game Of Thrones a lot of people assumed that also meant that I'd only just bought it. ...