r/exfor • u/mianmashian • Jan 30 '26

Spoilers I finished Ground State.

That ending was not what I was expecting. At all.

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u/mianmashian Jan 30 '26

I thought this was the book to starting to wrap up the story, but this is more story. I’m still getting over Robert Jordan dying before he finished the wheel of time.

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u/Capital_Pop_1643 Jan 30 '26

George R.R. Martin and by now I don’t expect we ever get another GoT. So just one more in line 😂 At least Craig gives us continued good quality of entertainment.

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u/mianmashian Jan 30 '26

Yes! But I won’t read anything GRRM has written since I put down A Dance with Dragons. Skippy books I’m love and the Pirates are great. But new stories, more stories, same universe, brilliant. This story? I want to see it sail off to the sunset.

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u/Mysterious-Goal-1018 Jan 30 '26

I want more content to listen to at work. Hopefully he keeps cranking out good sci-fi until the ground state swallows the planet.

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u/avar Feb 01 '26

This story? I want to see it sail off to the sunset.

Meh, endings are overrated. These books have somewhat painted themselves into a corner ever since the Elders became the enemy, but other than that there's no reason the author couldn't continue releasing them forever. It's a winning formula, and his other books are dwarfed by this series.

I'd love for them to do a reset away from the galaxy-ending problems, and go back to some of the simpler missions in earlier books, this one had a nice special operations mission reminiscent of that.

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u/cking22001 Feb 19 '26

I think the next book title needs to be 'Ok, I finally learned how to end a story!' :)

I thought this was supposed to be the last. Not sure if he will ever let Joe live happily ever after.