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by adhesive_wombat 1351 days ago
What really winds me up is when you have 1000 pages of book (or even 3000 pages of series) and then the ending drops in 50 pages.

Looking at you Peter F. "A god turned up and fixed everything lol" Hamilton, but it seems to happen a lot in sci-fi, maybe because the author prefers worldbuilding to a satisfying plot resolution.

Though I think in some cases the publisher puts their foot down and tells the author that the N-logy ends here and there's not going to be a N+1th volume, so the author just slaps a desultory ending on it and ships it.