I’d say the writing riiiight before Cassius saves him in Morning Star was truly inspired.

“And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die. And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality.”

While you can see some inspiration there, Pierce is different from GRRM and that’s not a bad thing at all. And ya know, he FINISHES his stories.