Talk:Venus on the Half-Shell
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I just read the 1984 Panther Press edition, and Simon did not commit suicide at the end. Is someone being prankish, or do the editions differ, as I haven't read the others...
Yeah, that's not the ending at all! (Uh, spoiler alert!) Simon aimlessly drifts through space in his ship, unaware that with every shift to light speed, he's killing a being of pure energy that exists in another dimension. After all of these creatures are sapped dry of their strength, Simon's ship is stranded in a remote corner of the universe.
He lands on a planet inhabited by omnipotent cockroaches, which were responsible for bringing intelligence to the rest of the galaxy. Frustrated, Simon demands from these unlikely gods the meaning of life and the universe, and asks why mankind was created only to suffer. The roaches have but one reply...
"Why not?"
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