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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About What Happens After You've Defeated
 the Big Bad
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:24:55 -0500
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On 04/06/2025 09.11, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Stories About What Happens After You've Defeated the Big Bad
> 
> Mission accomplished! Quest completed! Now what...?
> 
> https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-what-happens-after-youve-defeated-the-big-bad/

What to do after you've won isn't the whole of _Glory Road_, but (to me,
at least) it's the most significant part. Certainly the first time that
I ever saw the question raised.

Your description of _Fuzzy Sapiens_, which I've read twice but don't
seem to remember anything about, brought to mind another Heinlein. A
significant point in _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ is its denouement,
in which a bunch of successful revolutionaries try to establish a
governmental system.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
Why doesn't anybody care about apathy?