On: Space travel via tether between asteroids

[23B1]

I felt the entire last third was the ending, and Stephenson – reacting to the constant (and imo legitimate) critique of his endings – was like 'screw it, I'll show them!'

[isoprophlex → 23B1]

Yeah I actually disliked that one because after the main action ends there's that weird last 1/3rd "ending" part, indeed basically a separate book.

With the others, they maybe end abruptly but you can see it coming because the entire crazy journey you were on up till then reached convergence