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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
oh, nonsense. Lots of SF deals with big crises and yet has an optimistic ending! Lois Bujold deals with major crises facing societies, and doesn't in the least inspire me to slit my wrists by the end. You can have an optimistic book without it being fluff and unicorns farting rainbows.
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Then what's this whole discussion been about, really? Seriously?
If the ending basically determines a book's overall pessimistic or optimistic nature, I'd be willing to bet the actual number pessimistic SF books is quite small. I know I'm hard-pressed to come up with any that start out bleak and end just as bleakly. I'm sure they're out there, but I can't imagine there being very many.
Or are people saying "pessimistic" when they mean something else?
