Re: LITGA

In article <1hupee3.1r7jf7237rfbkN%mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx "Michelle Bottorff" writes:

I ended up mentioning this idea over in one of the sff.net
newsgroups (the critters group, to be specific) where it has
generated enough interest that I'm planning to try make a go of
it.

[talks about LITGA and favouring fiction with happy endings]

Methinks you're headed for two HUGE problems:

1) Some people's dislike of tales with guaranteed-happy outcomes
(ie, the Disney Syndrome); and

2) Almost everyone's inability to agree on what makes an outcome
happy or otherwise.

Within the bounds of (2), frex, you could have a tale where Earth
is destroyed utterly But There Is Still Hope (eg, Poul Anderson's
"The Day After Doomsday", IRCC). Gentle Reader can be an utterly
perverse creature on such matters. Some GRs would call "Nineteen
Eight-Four" a book with a happy outcome: poor maladjusted Winston
Smith at last has his head straightened and can Love Big Brother.
Other GRs observe WS, alone in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, and wonder
how long before the Thought Police arrive and drag him off for an
ultimate doing-over, now he accepts how very naughty he has been.
--
Andrew Stephenson

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