The Best Endings in SF and Fantasy

by Bill Ward on November 2, 2009

in On Books

childhoods-end.jpgOver at Grasping For the Wind, John Ottinger has asked a parcel of book bloggers the question “What books have the best endings in science fiction, fantasy, and horror?” My own answer is over there, in which I single out Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End for praise — and I wasn’t the only one to pick it. In fact, there are several books that get mentioned more than once, proof enough I think that they really are some of the significant endings genre fiction has produced.

The post is full of spoilers, obviously, and I avoided reading some of it myself in order to preserve the surprise of the some of the books mentioned over there that I have yet to read.

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