... and comes accross as a deus ex machina transition. More authors should be brave and have their stories end bleakly. Great examples that come to mind would

... and comes accross as a deus ex machina transition. More authors should be brave and have their stories end bleakly. Great examples that come to mind would be 'Death's End', 'Echopraxia' (to a lesser extent also the prior 'Blindsight'), 'Consider Phlebas', just to name a few.