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Re: Sarah returning in a sequel. As Sandy Belterson once observed, there is no long-term future in being spacer crew – – the money’s not good enough. Can trading be sufficient to make up for this lack, if Sarah doesn’t advance to the Academy/officer path? Also – – spacer crew is simply what she does, not what she is. She is a shaman. Can she hear whatever shamans hear in the deep dark, with noisy machinery interfering with the signal? Can a shaman truly shaman away from St. Cloud, or is the gift, as you call it, simply an aspect of genetically-inherited autism that works anywhere the shaman chooses to exist?
The reason that some readers are asking for a sequel is the oldest one there is – – they want the conclusion to the story, and that conclusion is “and they all lived happily ever after.” The reader wants to know that the characters (s)he invests in emotionally will achieve a satisfactory/good outcome. Even when a story ends tragically, e.g., Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, the ultimate death of Sydney Carton has meaning to the reader, a satisfactory conclusion. They want the same for Sarah – – as it is, she’s left in Limbo – – the ending of the story, rather than being “and they all lived happily ever after,” becomes “and no one ever heard from Sarah Krugg again.”