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Listopia > Silverfast's votes on the list Unhappy Endings: Speculative Fiction With A Tragic Ending Part II (20 Books)
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Grendel
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The Martian Chronicles
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""Nearly all of these short stories have downer endings.""
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The Book of Sorrows (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #2)
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""...the Animals, having lost their innocence, must bear the weight of evil rather than completely overcoming it.""
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Quincas Borba
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""...Quincas Borba, sick and skeletal, desperately runs away searching for his dead friend and dies in the street three days later.""
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The Nightingale and the Rose
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There Will Come Soft Rains
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"Automated house survives nuclear war alone."
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Parsival Or A Knight's Tale (Parsival #1)
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The Grail War
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The Final Quest (Parsival #3)
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The Exile
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The Course of the Heart
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Descent into Hell
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The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act
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""...poor old man just wanted to go for an evening walk and ends up getting sent to an insane asylum...""
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Little People
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
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""...he never had children, and thus, didn't pass down the legacy of humanity's misery.""
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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""...ends with every character in the posse dying, except for a figure which is either the villain...""
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Outer Dark
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""...a last-minute attempt to save his and Rinthy's baby, but the strangers kill it first, rendering Rinthy's year-long journey to find it completely pointless...""
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The Children of Húrin
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""The Tale of Túrin Turambar is one of the most tragic and central stories in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, often regarded as his darkest tale.""
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The Fall of Gondolin
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""The city is sacked, most of its inhabitants are killed, and the survivors flee, only for their leader, Tuor, to eventually disappear at sea...""
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The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
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""...the greatest civilization of Men was destroyed by divine intervention after being corrupted by Sauron...""
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