Maybe it's "nowhere left to go" syndrome?
I'm with you wholeheartedly on praising Iain Banks use of scale. Why have a ship hit an iceberg when you can have a ship the size of the Isle of White hitting an iceberg the size of Britain? And of course, within that, it's the characters involved in the incident that you care for / relate to.
It's tricky territory, though, and (alongside previous posters) I heap praise on Halo Jones for just "going out". Note that when things got big (was it book 3 with the inter-planetary war?) rather than carry on, the writer had the good sense to bring the series to a close, on a high note.
Perhaps we shouldn't call for more Halo, because perhaps it's got nowhere left to go.
I'm with you wholeheartedly on praising Iain Banks use of scale. Why have a ship hit an iceberg when you can have a ship the size of the Isle of White hitting an iceberg the size of Britain? And of course, within that, it's the characters involved in the incident that you care for / relate to.
It's tricky territory, though, and (alongside previous posters) I heap praise on Halo Jones for just "going out". Note that when things got big (was it book 3 with the inter-planetary war?) rather than carry on, the writer had the good sense to bring the series to a close, on a high note.
Perhaps we shouldn't call for more Halo, because perhaps it's got nowhere left to go.