He’s on here as cstross :-) He’s written some good books in the past but a lot of his recent stuff has very obviously just been churned out to meet a deadline

He’s on here as cstross :-) He’s written some good books in the past but a lot of his recent stuff has very obviously just been churned out to meet a deadline or contract for x number of books. Seems to be a trend recently, authors have abandoned the classic trilogy for something more open-ended but then run out of steam after book 4 and have nowhere to go. GRRM being the highest profile example but it’s an industry-wide phenomenon.