> They don't owe you another book. It's not "another book". GoT is structured as a single, very large novel, divided in volumes, just like LOTR. There's no rea

> They don't owe you another book. It's not "another book". GoT is structured as a single, very large novel, divided in volumes, just like LOTR. There's no real ending to volumes, and somebody starting from the 5th book would understand little to nothing about the story. I wouldn't require Frank Herbert to write the next Dune novel - most of them are quite self contained. The same would be true for most novels from Rowling so far; even though there's a "larger story" behind, books are self-contained (with the exception of the 6th HP book). If she quits writing Cormoran Strike novels, I wouldn't think she had breached my trust. I bought (and spent time!) 5/7 of a novel (GoT) with the clear expectation that it would, someday, finish. And this expectation seems still to exist - the author never declared he's dropped the saga. It sometimes happens that a series gets interrupted because of low sales or other problems with the author (I can remember some comics - e.g. the Nana manga), but the GoT affair seems deliberate. Would you keep reading (and buying) books if you knew you couldn't finish them? Would you play (and buy) videogames that you couldn't finish? There's a kind of "trust system" that makes me buy unfinished things. If a large series, especially an extra-successful one, where money is not the problem, doesn't finish, there's a breach of trust. Everything IMHO. And I'd never send any kind of threat to GRRM. But I won't buy anything else from him, or at least anything unfinished.