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I really wish he had wrapped everything up.

• _emacsomancer_ 3y ago
  Yes, I've been hoping for this; one amongst many reasons to be sad that Vinge didn't live longer.
  • Aeolun 3y ago
    Was he in the process of wrapping everything up?
• saalweachter 3y ago
  Eh, I have mixed feelings on that. There are cliff-hanger endings, or clearly unfinished works, but I don't mind a bit of uncertainty at the edge of the story. Compare The Wheel of Time to The Lord of the Rings. At the end of LotR, it is over. Not only is the Dark Lord defeated forever, the elves, the wizards, all magic, and our two protagonists leave the world for the Undying Lands. We're told of the lives and deaths of all the other main characters. The world is finished. There are no stories left to tell. At the end of WoT, it's just an ending. We're told of a great cycle to the universe, but half of it remains a mystery. Our protagonists are barely into their twenties, and the world has just been turned upside down. What will happen next? Anything, everything. I don't mind the Zones of Thought universe being left open-ended, even if I would have preferred a little more. It's the sort of universe that shouldn't be wrapped up completely.
  • astrange 3y ago
    Tolkien did start writing a sequel to LOTR set a generation or two later, but he abandoned it because it was coming out too grimdark for him.