Martin and Jordan and Goodkind ... they never shine. Their serial work is mediocre at best - the best Martin book is Tuff (sci fi short stories). Trilogy seems

Martin and Jordan and Goodkind ... they never shine. Their serial work is mediocre at best - the best Martin book is Tuff (sci fi short stories). Trilogy seems to be the optimal size for a big story to be told. Above that is hard. And even Zelazny was not able to pull off amber properly. The prolific multi genre author - the one that could create a full universe for a short story and throw it away is rare beast. So in a sense what happens to hollywood is something that for us geeks has happened before in two beloved medias - books and games. The only thing that prevented the game industry to die creatively was the tremendously low cost of entry into the PC market where the interesting stuff was happening after the 2009 [1]. [1] Owned and played on PS2, PS3, Xbox and xbox 360 next to my gaming PC.