Although this saga ends with the coming of the Civil War, Dr. Ayers and Dr. Rubin intend to carry it forward in two future CD-ROM's.
The saga ends with a deranged Maria abandoned on the battlefield by her desperate, defeated husband, cradling the corpse of his last victim - her faithful, spurned young lover.
"No matter how this saga ends," wrote the daily newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta, "the so-called American democracy is giving other democracies, not as mature, some U.S. precedents to cite".
The saga ends just as the Sky City project begins on site, with a lavish ground-breaking party that has all the pomp and ceremony of a project that is doomed to remain a rendering.
The saga ends, as it must, with the death of Scott and four of his men, but Larson makes much of the fact that the party took the time to gather 35 pounds of fossils and rock samples from the Beardmore Glacier and carry them back — a sacrifice for science that may have cost them their lives.
There's an Icelandic story that I really like called "Egil's Saga" that's about a very bad man -- he's a warrior and he does a lot of ill-turns in the course of his life and the saga ends with him as a very old man being pushed around and reprimanded by the servant women for being in the way.
