Endings are hard to pull off. This one does it perfectly – poised at the brink of something greater, without leaving a massive cliffhanger.

Begin the story here: http://ficly.com/stories/16559

I read the entirety of this story in a single sitting…it…was…AWESOME! I am a fan of SciFi and I found all the elements that make it good. Interesting science, real or imagined, good action and reaction, good characters to ground the lofty ideas. And the final piece…I want more. I want to read the story of Carto and Harrigan and the rest of the crew as they jump off into history.

Well done sirs, well done.

@SSC – Thanks! I’ve had those last couple of sentences composed in my head for several weeks now. It’s extremely gratifying to finally see them spelled out. This has been a fabulous and enjoyable series to co-author, so thanks for getting the ball rolling!

@Jessica – The mark of great storytelling is being able to end tale with the reader wanting more. It’s thrilling to see that happen with this work.

Some trivia:
- This story is composed 52 sections: 22 by SSC, 7 by THX, and 23 by myself.
- The total count comes to 9,002 words.
- In Microsoft Word, the total page count (Times New Roman, 12pt font, single-spaced, 1" margins) comes to 27 pages (well, 26 and three lines).

I think I’m going to plan to format the story into something nice and save it as a PDF file to distribute as one item, if that’s okay with you, SSC and THX. I’ll share a link here once I have it up and distribute it under the same Creative Commons license that Ficly uses.

This was a great journey!

Also, folks are more than welcome to pick up the thread again and continue the adventure if they like. I may even be interested in doing so at some point. I just thought this was a great place to end this particular arc.

Definitely feels like it closes a chapter but not the book.

I’m glad I got to be a part of this series, albeit a little one. Honestly, I didn’t realize I’d added that many segments.

Format, distribute, edit, re-edit, and do whatever else you like. I take Creative Commons seriously, and besides this story is way more you two than me.

This series was awesome to co-author, so I’ll add my own stuff as well -

Awesome factor: 100%

I’d like to pick this up this again (later) too, but I felt (partly towards the end) that the spontaneity of the Ficly format was wearing a bit thin when we were all trying not to kill each others’ ideas.

As for the PDF, go ahead. It’s all under the Creative Commons, after all. And I get to have my name on it!

Awesome story guys. I didn’t realize it was 52 sections- they went by so quickly!!

Quickly indeed. I agree with the Doc: good solid ending to the string, but there’s definitely more story here for those who want to tell it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, excellent work from all three of you.