vates wrote:rick tornello wrote:Good story, I didn't expect that exact ending.
And yet the author started to prepare that ending right in the second paragraph. Well done, indeed. (as Sergio might put it)
rick tornello wrote:At least they got this mad man before he destroyed a world.
A world, that might only exist in his own imagination, that is.
... And somehow this weakened the story for me. In a variant of the "Alice" ending, or the "Walter Mitty" ending, for me the reader's feeling is a bit of a sad sigh.
Anyway, for me, my quota of these kinds of stories is rather low, because all the descriptive fantasy power is "legit" in this venue, and creates great worlds to explore. So to have it all be someone's dream in a psych hospital is a crashing downer indeed!
Even "One in a million" as a phrase doesn't mean much anymore, because that means there's 200 of these types here in the US. I know, history and all that, but I don't see that kind of one-man resurgence these days. Even loose knit organizations can't do it, like Occupy. A mindshare revolution today would have to be a ferociously connected group with ties to all kinds of different angles of power to leverage.