Is this some twisted spin on perhaps the worst T.V. series ending of all time?!  Does anyone remember the T.V. show Dallas?  Generally, I don't think most people would be pleased to find, after reading hundreds of books (Deathlands and spin-off series), that... oops... it all meant nothing.  "I knew I shouldn't have had that third helping of Pot Roast... what a strange dream!"

I have read and own every one of the books and have noticed that the last few have made references to a certain redoubt with a certain symbol (the Saturn car logo) signifying something of importance. Maybe this is the master redoubt where Doc was pushed forward in time or perhaps a mat-trans unit that is actually a time trawling machine. In any case, a good ending would be for them to find this machine and for all of them, Dean included, to return to Doc's time. Doc could arrive in time to save his children, but not himself as he is trawled into the future. So the story line stays in tact. They have always been seeking a place where they could live in peace and stop living from battle to battle. Written properly, it would not effect the time line, the story line or the transition to Outlanders.

Dave528 wrote I have read and own every one of the books and have noticed that the last few have made references to a certain redoubt with a certain symbol (the Saturn car logo) signifying something of importance. Maybe this is the master redoubt where Doc was pushed forward in time or perhaps a mat-trans unit that is actually a time trawling machine. In any case, a good ending would be for them to find this machine and for all of them, Dean included, to return to Doc's time. Doc could arrive in time to save his children, but not himself as he is trawled into the future. So the story line stays in tact. They have always been seeking a place where they could live in peace and stop living from battle to battle. Written properly, it would not effect the time line, the story line or the transition to Outlanders.

Have you read the Outlanders series ?

I'm guessing not as a lot of what you quote above has been covered in that series. I would suggest quite strongly that you do read the series (well up to Ghostwalk and with the exception of those few books by Victor Millan -which are crap) they are light years ahead in quality over DL and that from a long time DL fan too.

Jim