Larry Correia published a viral post in July 2026 arguing that George R.R. Martin’s failure to finish A Song of Ice and Fire crippled an entire generation of epic fantasy authors — burning reader trust so badly that publishers stopped taking chances on new series, agents stopped representing new epic fantasy, and readers refused to start anything unfinished. As a science fiction and fantasy author who lived through this collapse firsthand, Correia’s analysis matches exactly what happened to the genre between 2011 and 2026 — and why Romantasy and LitRPG exploded to fill the crater GRRM left behind.
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