>And so not finishing a promised series is taking from that trust commons. This is the most important point - GRRM is hurting other authors with his failure to

>And so not finishing a promised series is taking from that trust commons. This is the most important point - GRRM is hurting other authors with his failure to deliver on an implicit social contract. How many future authors will not get their first book in a series read enough to justify a second because readers will wait for a series to be finished before putting in the energy to read it?