What Ayn Rand told the world is that in order for prosperity to exist we must have businesses of all sizes and no interference from government. As we see and have seen for over 100 years in the usa is the creeping of government into businesses which is a copy of what has happened in europe and where has it left the europeans; in the sewer, that is where and we are following suit. I suggest that those of you who have thus far not read all of her writings do so and you should ultimately begin to understand that she said it all. There is no more that could be said after AS.

To put it in detail, yes. But I hardly envision that taking a hundred thousand words. The Constitution itself doesn't. And remember: total collapse. Once a Government of the United States re-emerges, it will have a new Constitution. And the issues leading up to that Constitution, to paraphrase GA Douglas MacArthur, will have been decisively settled and will not be subject to discussion or debate.

The story is not so much the rewriting of the Constitution, but the eventual amalgamation of wilderness militias into one co-operative fighting force that defeats the last remnants of the robbers.

Yes the outlook for individual rights seems bleak indeed!

Would and will take more than a few lines.

Good question. I'm not sure.

Thanks for the info.

in order for profits made by companies they have to exist. as the world is moving backwards there is a reduction of companies so there is a reduction of profits. the looters just don't get it. they think that the productive people will simply continue to serve them. but that will come to an end in my opinion in the not to far future like maybe 20 years. then we will be left with a sad world that no amount of objectivists will be able tover come because our government education system has failed to educate. the failure to educate the population has been in the works since the late 60's in my opinion. if you look around at what is taking place all over the country you can't help to notice the daily breakdown specifically in the black neighborhoods. but they are not alone because they are being joined by whites and hispanics. the only group that seems to want to better itself and be productive is the asian people. AR said as much as she could to warn us and that was followed with the writing of Leonard Peikoff. our world is doomed as we presently know it.

Yes.

If there ever was a sequel, it would probably about how someone discovered the Gulch and tried to raid it and bring forth people in it to "justice" for shirking their "duty to help their fellow man" gleaning the advances that members of the Gulch had made and mandated that it reproduced for the masses. The government while seeming benevolent to the masses, actually using this as a means of control and trying to sell it to Gulchers as being in a partnership. Gulchers, on the otherhand, see right through what the government would do with any newly acquired power/resources that they attain, and do not cooperate. Inevitability, the heavy fist of the government will do whatever they can to destroy any admiration/credibility the Gulchers have with the masses. The outcome becomes predictable.

Already done in a few lines. Judge Narragansett took care of that.

No, no, no. Start with a Daniel Boone-type character happening on the unconscious form of Eddie Willers, slinging him over his horse, and heading into the mountains and his already-planned rendezvous with the Apache or Hopi or Havasupai Beringians. Who by now will have left the reservation and resumed The Old Ways. Let them now have a debate on whether to cooperate with John Galt--and if the latter, how do they find them? And on their way, they meet up with Chief Ouray the Second, the Big Chief of the Ute Nation. Who has a problem: Mulligan's Valley is actually the Uncompahgre Valley, and that is ancient Ute land! Now see what...!

Not true. Ayn Rand addressed this issue in "The Question of Scholarships,” The Objectivist, June, 1966.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/govern...

Evidently Ayn Rand was contemplating another novel before she died (see last sentence):
http://www.gradesaver.com/author/ayn-ran...

And her "lost" novel is due out in a week:
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/...

Atlas Shrugged needed no sequel. The last scene made clear: the residents of the Gulch were making definite plans to return to the world. Richard Halley was going to début his Fifth Concerto, Kay Ludlow intended returning to the silver screen, Ragnar was preparing to teach philosophy in a university setting (and likely run the department), Midas was getting set to invest in different companies in large cities, Judge Narragansett was preparing a thoroughgoing revision to the Constitution, Francisco was finishing his design of a smelter, Hank Rearden was looking forward to getting Rearden Steel going again...and John Galt and Dagny Taggart climbed all the way up to the lip of the valley, looked down at the lands below, and said, "We're going back."

That said, this book could use a sequel. I would envision several novels, each complete in itself, making a longer story arc. Start with a "Quest for Atlantis," in which an independent scout--a concept that really will give Eddie the willies--will stumble upon Eddie, pick him up, and set out to take Eddie to a place where Eddie can thrive again. And in the process come to terms with his own state.

For you see, Ayn Rand never once treated the case of the independent scout, one of several who first entered the Old West and made their living trapping furry animals, killing them, skinning them, then bringing the pelts to "trading posts" to buy supplies to sustain their total lone-wolf existence. If Eddie despaired when he saw a wagon train, let him see an independent scout, the first "white presence" in the Wild West. Better yet, let him see a tribe of Apache or Ute or Arapaho who have, in the great collapse, walked off the reservation and resumed The Old Ways!

What more do you think she could have said?

Atlas was not intended to have a sequel and even those minor alterations in the movie in order to bring it up to date jarred a bit. I don't think she needed any urging to write as writing was, no doubt, her life. I think she would have loved writing with a computer or tablet and she'd probably turn out work faster than it could be published. That leaves it up to the inheritors of her works.

If she ever did plan a sequel to AS may I suggest a title?

"SEE, I TOLD YOU SO"

That would be part of the fight to rebuild the world correctly. But how do you keep the looters out?

I want to agree with you but I have this sinking feeling that if John Galt were to sell the plans for his motor to the outside world, the looters would seize and live off of the profits selling and taxing what they had not earned. This sounds alot like the beginning of Atlas Shrugged.

I believe that you have added to the end of the book. We don't know that the human race has killed itself. There has to be millions of good men and women that are still out there. Not everyone is in the Gulch. Those in the Gulch need to lead in the rebuilding the world from the ashes.

Actually, I think I remember her saying that she was a novelist first and a philosopher second. She expressly denied that the purpose of her fiction writing was to teach, rather it was to present a story which demonstrated principles in action. Anyone else remember what she said about that?

Nope, no Sequel we KNOW how it ends.

The world burns to a cinder, the Gulch survives as a utopia where genius and value reigns supreme, then expands after the rest of the human race has killed itself off in anarchy or starves from its ignorance.

I think it was a pretty complete story actually. If there was to be a sequel, it should be on the subject of how you bring back a civilization from the destruction of socialism. This is what Venezuela and Greece need today- and not some high handed intellectual work. Practical stuff is what they need.

Atlas Shrugged is a complete story with an ending that suggests that no sequels are needed. No, AFAIK she had no intentions of writing a sequel.

I would not have encouraged her to write a sequel, but I would have loved to have seen her write another novel.