PlanckEnergy

I'm rather at peace with what we got, if indeed the next 2-3 books never see the light of day. As TUC ended, I wasn't even aware he had any plans for more and thought it was perfect. A good deal of the discussion, just after the last two books released and everyone thought more was coming, was centered around how the good guys could possible end up winning. And that really misses the fact that the good guys have already won and the ending we got is the happiest possible ending. Too many fans of this series are too wrapped up in the in-universe metaphysics and seem to completely ignore or fail to think about the very real, obviously purposeful meta commentary on our actual reality that is the core of all these books. Namely, these books are one giant flaming repudiation of abrahamic religions and very specifically the concept of hell. And how extra extra bad the concept of hell is in a reality where free will doesn't exist. Only one faction in this story has a 100% foolproof way to prevent new souls from going to hell. In the face of this, nothing else matters. Anything is permissible (even, as would result here for anyone not immortal, the extinction of all sentient life in the universe [as no new souls can enter babies or whatever]). The consult are the heroes of this story, and it's a good thing they have won. They are made so comically vile just to drive home just how much worse /eternal/ torture is and how warped anyone who believes in it is. All that said, I would of course love to have more books where more in-universe stuff is explored and revealed. But not that the risk of oblivion being lost.