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Stephenson is great at starting stories. Arguably he does this several times in each book.

He can't write endings for shit, though. (Every book of his that I've read - Anathem, Seveneves, Reamde, Cryptonomicon/Snow Crash/The Diamond Age, and more - all fail to come to a satisfactory ending. But I keep reading, because the rest of the books are good...)

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Cryptonomicon and Anathem get endings of a sort... later :)

Would you mind expanding on this?

I've read both books and am curious what you mean.

I haven’t read anthem, but his latest is in the cryptonomicon universe....ties up a couple loose ends...or at least shows some repercussions.

Right. It does a similar (albeit smaller scale) thing for Anathem.

I thought his most recent (Fall, or Dodge in Hell) was a followup to Reamde, not Anathem or Snow Crash?

And I was pretty sure Cryptonomicon led into Snow Crash and then The Diamond Age...

The Baroque Cycle seems to end well IMHO.

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