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Mentioned those books in the review I posted a couple days ago *cough* feature me *cough*. There used to be a big section of them at my local public library. Young me thought they were the shit. 

Actually, there are a total of 8 non-death endings, plus 2 ambiguous ones.

Also, the one ending quoted here also ends with the words "TO BE CONTINUED," which I'd like to think counts for something. ;)

That ending should have been one of the four "TO BE CONTINUED" endings, so if I missed that I apologize. Maybe I'll see if I can get that fixed later this week.

The only Vin Diesel movie I've ever seen is Saving Private Ryan, and I'll die a happy man if it stays that way. I did see your comment, and I looked up the plot description of Pitch Black, and frankly the similarities seem superficial, and at best pertain to only one of 19 endings.

I would think the movie Gravity is a stronger influence on Giri Minor.

But the true influence on my story, and the one I was intentionally trying to pay homage to, is this:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane

Knowing this, certain other "Easter eggs" in Giri Minor might become more evident, especially to readers of a certain age. The biggest such "eggs" are all the references to one planet exploding and causing another to shift and lose its biosphere... resulting in the failure of a colony of Earth outcasts. (I played with the details of that element a bit to suit my needs.) But there are also three other deliberate and specific call-outs that I intentionally placed in Giri Minor as a reference to the subject of the above link, as well as two of the sci-fi works he created.

Also, astute readers will find two references to Dune, one more obvious to the other.

You should call her Commandant, with a sharp salute.

I did see Austin's profile, and his age was obvious by the black-and-white conviction of his own opinion. Nevertheless, he is entitled to think what he wants... and obviously I'd like to see other's reactions to Giri Minor as well.

I'm certain he'd chase us all the way into the nebula...

Implying that you can feasibly go any lower than where you already are. Lul

To the extent that this matters to anyone:

I just completed a set of changes to this story, incuding the addition of a title page, an author's note, and most importantly, an epilogue. After thinking about it for the last month, I decided this last feature was important because it addressed the issues broached on the very first page of the story, but not satisfactorily resolved in any of the 19 endings. The epilogue also sets up the next story better, with several characters you will meet in Secret of the Grass Planet making cameo appearances here.

While I was at it, I also combined some of the shorter pages, since that was clearly a sticking point for some readers. The introduction has been converted from 6 short pages into 3 medium-length pages, and I also gave the spacewalk and crash sequences a similar treatment. I didn't have time to go through the entire story, and at any rate, my personal preference is still to click through a sequence of shorter pages than to scroll through long pages of text.

The sequel is coming along well and should be ready to publish later in June.

I hope everyone enjoys.