I would like to tell the story of what happened when we showed up at the Amalgamation’s welcoming center, only to discover that it was an abattoir and so was the rest of the Galaxy. Alas, that’s the story, right there. Everybody was dead, and none of the discoverers were never going to figure out why. So we’re left with stuff like ‘The Foyer.’ Frozen moments of horror, suspended in time forever.
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It’s a story that could be told in vignettes over several centuries… no or vanishingly rare repeating characters.
Saberhagen’s ‘berserker’ universe is one example.. some novel-length stories, but to get the overall theme it’s millennia long.
Mew
I appreciate the “one and done”. Some story sprouts are just that.