Lois’s answer to “Is "Horizon" the last of the Sharing Knife series? Do you plan on continuing the story? Or, is th…” > Likes and Comments

There is curiosity (What happened after that?) and there is wanting to revisit a fully drawn character or characters we relate to almost as a friend or mentor. But the same is true in the real world: we know only part of any story and its ramifications across the present, let alone the future. We often can't, and more often don't, keep up with every worthwhile person we get to know. (If a person is not frequently meeting worthwhile people, they need to get out more or frequent places where they meet better sorts of people--worthwhile ones are not rare, thank God.) No author can keep up, no matter how prolific or long-lived. (Oh Queen, live forever!) But of course it is a compliment for readers to love the characters or be fascinated by the ongoing events and/or vice versa. And what a wonderful accolade you received in that Analog review: "to read Bujold is to want more".
Exceptions exist when a character dies, or better yet dies and goes to Heaven (C.S. Lewis "The Last Battle", "Till we have Faces") or when the world or the universe ends (but even then, SF-ly, we have Poul Anderson "To Outlive Eternity" or Murray Leinster "The End" where characters pass beyond the end of the universe to a new, young, universe; and many instances of end of the world stories where some leave the doomed world to continue life: Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s "A Canticle for Liebowitz", Wylie & Baumer's "When Worlds Collide" & "After Worlds Collide".)

Knife Children is out now, but you probably already know that.