First off - that's pretty sweet, I didn't know he was planning to continue. Whenever he gets around to writing them, I'll be quite happy about it.

Second off - you say Brin actually said in advance that there would be breaks. That's completely different from the scenarios I used as examples (though I admit I might not have phrased them perfectly, in hindsight). Brin a) at least finished up a storyline before giving that series a hiatus, and b) let people know up front that these books weren't going to be one-after-the-other.


As innumerable people have pointed out (I know you've seen this, I've pointed it out myself), Martin encourages the perception of "sabbaticals" when he constantly advertises (not just talks about, advertises) the thirty dozen other projects he's working on. You don't agree with that perception - I grasp that. However, you seem to have blinders on as to how other people could arrive at that perception.


That's a strawman argument. Nobody wants "a rushed, crappy book rather than a decent one." Many people don't understand how a book that was "practically finished" in 2005 isn't done four years later. It's hard to convince someone that an extra four years is "rushed."