[rushking]

I love plot twists but other than the Harry Potter novels, I don't find much plot twists in other SF novels.

So here are my favourite plot twists in SF novels

Harry Potter 2 - Ginny did it
Harry Potter 3 - the rat is an Animagus
Harry Potter 4 - Moody isn't the real Moody

For some reasons, I don't find unexpected deaths of important characters in 5,6,7 much of a plot twist but maybe that's just me.

[Arrgh]

I love plot twists but other than the Harry Potter novels, I don't find much plot twists in other SF novels.

So here are my favourite plot twists in SF novels

Harry Potter 2 - Ginny did it
Harry Potter 3 - the rat is an Animagus
Harry Potter 4 - Moody isn't the real Moody

For some reasons, I don't find unexpected deaths of important characters in 5,6,7 much of a plot twist but maybe that's just me.

Luckily I've finished those HPs. but I'll have to avoid this spoiler filled thread in the future.

[GreyMantle]

Red Wedding

[tracyt1800]

Red Wedding

Ugh ... the Red Wedding. That part of ASoIaF made me sick to my stomach. I had to stop reading for a couple of days.

That was a great twist, though.

For my vote, I'd say the end of King's Dark Tower series.
What Roland finally finds at the top of the Dark Tower.

[Werthead]

The Red Wedding.

The ending of pretty much all of Christopher Priest's novels. Read to the end of The Prestige or The Separation and I defy anyone not to immediately start reading the book again to see how the twist works.

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The Red Wedding.

The ending of pretty much all of Christopher Priest's novels. Read to the end of The Prestige or The Separation and I defy anyone not to immediately start reading the book again to see how the twist works.

How different is the book The Prestige compared to the movie?

[Werthead]

How different is the book The Prestige compared to the movie?

Borden's story is pretty much the same. Angier's is quite different, mainly because the book has a framing sequence set in 1995 revolving around Angier and Borden's descendents finding out about the feud. The ending of the novel is extremely haunting and different to the movie (which was simplified beyond belief).

[bearhat]

I thought the end of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn (Tad Williams) was a pretty good twist, finding out that the prophecy they had been working to fulfill, bringing the three swords together, was actually helping the Storm King, not stopping him. That was killer.

Someone mentioned the Red Wedding a moment ago, but I reckon Eddard Stark's "mishap" at the end of Game of Thrones was equally "twisty".