At 78, George R. R. Martin remains the most famous
unfinished writer in the world, a storyteller who reshaped modern fantasy and
then found himself trapped inside the expectations he created.
On a peninsula in New Jersey,
sometime in the late 1950s, a boy sold monster stories to the other children in
his housing project for pennies, complete with dramatic readings. The business
collapsed when a customer’s mother complained that her child was having
nightmares.
That boy was George Raym...
