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Old 03-28-2011, 07:00 AM   #21
wayrad
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The worst ending I've read recently was the conclusion to David Weber's Out of the Dark. It's your basic alien-invasion story, where the humans hold their own through ingenuity and refusal to give up, but are increasingly hard pressed. You wonder what they are going to pull out of their hats to defeat the alien oppressors, and then...well, they're rescued. I can't even bring myself to mention by whom.
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Suffice it to say that when a minor character named Basarab was introduced, I got my first inkling of where things were going, but couldn't quite bring myself to believe it.

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