 What likely happens to Ledman after the story ends?
I was neatly bound in thin, tough, plastic tangle-cord, swathed from chin to boot-bottoms, my arms imprisoned, my feet caught. And tangle-cord is about as easy to get out of as a spider's web is for a trapped fly. The great atomic wars of the late 20th Century had used up much of the supply, but the amount used to blow up half the great cities of the world hardly compared with the amount we needed to put them back together again. In a decade or so, our power would be just about gone. It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving until Project Sea-Dredge starts functioning. It slid up over the crest of a hill, set back between two hummocks on the desert.
 He will undergo physical and mental health care before starting over
 He is given new legs and can start a new life  He will rejoin the search for uranium  Even with his wheelchair he must receive mental health treatment  He will undergo physical and mental health care before starting over