Cycles
Starts
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Anachronic Order: The book starts sometime after the end of the plot, and then cycles back through the year or so leading up to that point.
Source: Literature / Infinite Jest -
Then the magnetic field starts to weaken, letting in stronger sunlight and solar storms during 60-hour day/night cycles.
Source: Gaia's Vengeance -
Other creatures make up for it by having bizarre life-cycles (the Emperor Sea Strider, a giant ocean-going beast starts out as a tiny bug-like flyer, for example).
Source: Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
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