![]() ![]() I find this ending unsatisfying but realistic. I would add as supporting evidence the fact that she did not even attempt to reconnect over a long series of funerals for the first hundred. ![]() Sax hallucinated her and his later enhanced memory was just an echo of the hallucination. No mystery to solve, just a grim and abrupt end. Hiroko was killed in the initial attack and "disappeared" the way secret police have done time and again. My own view, sadly, is that Coyote had it exactly right. To be honest, I am not sure where he was going with that, because it was hard to read it and not think of Hiroko (one final tease for the reader perhaps). She might have been a nod to the other false Hirokos like the one on Earth. I don't think the Asian woman referenced at the end could be Hiroko, because she would have been recognized. It is significant that Hiroko had reached mythic status, sometimes being seen in two places at once. I think it's safe to say Robinson intentionally left it unanswered, though he I believe he had a most likely outcome in mind and tipped it off. ![]()
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