On Mon, 15 May 2006, Jon Lincicum wrote: > It was the same way with /Agyar/. In the first chapter, [...] but by > the end of two or three chapters, it should be pretty obvious what's > going on... Some people would prefer to spend those two or three chapters coming to their own conclusion. Furthermore, perhaps at the end of another few chapters you would have found out what's going on is not X but Y. > Did Steve really intend for the reader not to catch on to what he was > doing until the very end? Part of your problem here is not quite understanding what a spoiler is - "info about a final twist" is overspecific. If I were to travel back in time from this fall and force you to hear the entire plot of _Dzur_ this evening - for example that beloved character Z is permanently killed at the end of chapter 3 - would you not be unhappy? And again, SKZB clearly made a choice not to blatantly present a bit of info in the text and has I believe praised the back-cover precis writer for not revealing it. Bandying about that info is disrespectful to Him and to His audience.