{"id":719,"date":"2008-05-02T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2008-05-01T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:44:33","slug":"bestworst-sf-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Best\/Worst SF Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SF Signal&#8217;s latest <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/006612.html\">Mind Meld<\/A> invited authors to weigh in on the best and worst endings in SF novels.  There&#8217;s the potential for spoilery (obviously), but their choices are interesting.<\/p>\n<p>As anyone who knows me can attest, I&#8217;m an endings kind of gal.  (As in, I nearly always read the ending before committing to the rest of the book, and everybody who claims that &#8220;it&#8217;s the journey not the destination&#8221; can bite me.)  I like upbeat endings, preferably with everything neatly resolved and all loose ends tied up in a pretty little bow.  I enjoy Golden Age SF for this reason, and tend to eschew most of the stuff that Shadow &#8220;dark emotions are powerful and interesting&#8221; Jack gravitates toward.  There are occasional exceptions: I enjoyed <I>Hyperion<\/I> even though the ending resolved <EM>NOTHING<\/EM>, and I liked <I>Snow Crash<\/I>, which ain&#8217;t exactly upbeat, but mostly I&#8217;m a give-me-a-satisfying-ending-or-give-me-another-book sort of reader.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I&#8217;m going to cop out and say that I can&#8217;t really choose either a best or worst SF ending of my own; I&#8217;m happy with any ending that&#8217;s tidy and positive, and if the ending is a bummer I probably haven&#8217;t made it all the way through the book anyway.<\/p>\n<p>What are your nominees for best\/worst SF endings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Signal&#8217;s latest Mind Meld invited authors to weigh in on the best and worst endings in SF novels. There&#8217;s the potential for spoilery (obviously), but their choices are interesting. As anyone who knows me can attest, I&#8217;m an endings kind of gal. (As in, I nearly always read the ending before committing to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}