Quote Originally Posted by clodhopper View Post
A lot of the survival genre stories seem like Dean Koontz books. Good story development, great plot crescendo, .... and then boom, it was aliens, story over in 4 pages.
That's pretty true. A lot of "epic" tales have lame endings. It's tough to end an epic story. Wizard's First Rule ending was forgetable. The most epic thing about Stephen King's The Dark Tower series was how lame the ending was.