You May Soon Binge Books Just Like You Binge Netflix

After each cliffhanger death and betrayal in Game of Thrones, viewers must wait seven days until the next episode delivers resolution. As agonizing as that is, it’s an eye-blink compared to the glacial pace of serial book publishing—something many an erstwhile George R.R. Martin fan knows.

Genre fiction, like TV, increasingly depends upon serialized long-arc storytelling; it’s rare these days to see a science-fiction or fantasy novel that isn’t part of a trilogy (or longer). Yet, the book world historically has been unable to match the comparatively rollicking pace of television.