Speaking of author notes at the end

[getting old in mke]

as was occurring wrt David Baldacci in the "What are you reading 4/15" thread,

I love the end notes that Steve Berry does in his Cotton Malone and other books. If you haven't read him, he usually takes a couple of "conspiracy theory"-ish topics and joins them with an adventure going on through it. Sort of _The DaVinci Code_ but a lot less pretentious.

So, for example, he'll take the theories of infinite oil (non-biotic origin petroleum) and thousands of years of control of China by the Imperial Eunuchs and mix them into a twenty-first century thriller. Over the top, always, but great fun.

Anyone, he always puts in-depth "what is real, what is theorized by whom, and what I just plain made up" at the end in a breezy, chatty note. It will point you to the fringe resources if you want, but provides a nice basic overview if you just want to get the general ideas. For me, someone who fell in love with _Illuminatus_ in the mid-70s, it feeds the curiosities of the grad-school me from times past.

So, anyway, my question is: what other authors do you like to tell you tales after the tale is done?

[Little Star]

1. I'd never noticed authors doing this...

Baldacci was a first for me. But then again, maybe I just never looked. Once I noticed that Baldacci left those notes sometimes, I began to always look for them. As of this date I've not run across another author who does but you can bet that I will always look for them now that I know.

I hope others here, who know of authors that 'like to tell you tales after the tale is done' will join in. It would be interesting to see how many authors do this.

Thanks for the thread goim!