Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked on March 19, 2021
The most oft-repeated phrase in Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is:
but that’s another story and shall be told another time.
Accompanied by this phrase, many minor characters fade out of the main storyline and aren’t mentioned again, even though they do have interesting tales of their own afterwards which we simply don’t see in the book. I made a list of all the instances when this happens:
This theme in the book is even alluded to in-universe, in the final conversation between Bastian, Atreyu, and Falkor when the latter two set off to tie up all these loose ends.
“The Water asks you,” Falkor translated, “whether you completed all the stories you began in Fantastica.”
“No,” said Bastian. “None of them really.”[…]
“It says there’s no help for it unless someone promises to do it in your place. But no one can do that.”
“I can! I will!” said Atreyu.[…]
“Falkor,” said Bastian. “How will you and Atreyu finish the stories I have left behind?”
The white dragon winked one of his ruby-red eyes and replied, “With luck, my boy! With luck!”— The Neverending Story, Chapter XXVI
So in-universe, all these stories will one day be finished.
My question is about out of universe.
From 2003 through 2004, the German publishing house AVAinternational published six novels in a series called Legends of Fantastica:
Full disclosure, I have not read those works myself and do not know if they related to the specific characters you ask about.
Looking through Ende's bibliography, it does not appear that he wrote any other stories set in Fantastica. Some of the works remain in their original German.
Answered by Skooba on March 19, 2021
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