I recently had an experience where I read one of the best scifi books I've ever read in the past few years. It's the new "James S. A. Corey" series: The Mercy of Gods. In the first book I accidentally skipped about 60 pages. I thought the authors (James S. A. Corey is two people I think?) were deliberately pushing me forward into the future and asking the reader to fill in the horrific events of the past.
It worked really well. Which makes it seem like those chapters were "bad"
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