I've just finished an supposedly SF book. It was a first contact book where the contact was distinctly hostile. The book was about earth's resistance to the take over, which while surprisingly fierce (to the alien mind set) was clearly going to be futile, but then the day was saved by (get ready for it) VAMPIRES!!!! I don't believe I've ever been so frustrated by an ending. This was not a Fantasy book, it was not even on the fantasy side of SF, almost every bit of science in it was not only possible but well thought out. And then VAMPIRES!!!! of all the cheap tricks. I could well have lived with a defeated, even a lifeless earth because that was the way logic dictated and it would have made a memorable book, even if possibly hard to sell, but VAMPIRES!!!!!
Questions: Am I right to be angry? Do you know of any other books that have done this kind of genre switch? If so how did you react?
(Not naming the book to avoid spoilers, and to protect the guilty. If interested I'll PM you the name and author.)
Questions: Am I right to be angry? Do you know of any other books that have done this kind of genre switch? If so how did you react?
(Not naming the book to avoid spoilers, and to protect the guilty. If interested I'll PM you the name and author.)