Come on, the Song of Ice & Fire books are particularly long, but you're still comparing an entire series with a single book. Dune is a series too, and I'll argu

Come on, the Song of Ice & Fire books are particularly long, but you're still comparing an entire series with a single book. Dune is a series too, and I'll argue that the quality drops off much more sharply after the first one than ASoI&F does. For what it's worth, in SF & Fantasy short fiction is still hanging in there: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com http://clarkesworldmagazine.com http://dailysciencefiction.com http://dailysciencefiction.com http://www.analogsf.com http://www.analogsf.com