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1) A similar but not exact iteration of this is the Water! trilogy by Gael Baudino. It's not well-known and I found the experimental format exhausting. Still, Your Mileage May Vary. In the three ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:33Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:54:53Z (about 5 years ago)
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1) A similar but not exact iteration of this is the [_Water!_ trilogy](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0451454499) by Gael Baudino. It's not well-known and I found the experimental format exhausting. Still, Your Mileage May Vary. In the three books (_O Greenest Branch, The Dove Looked In, Branch and Crown_) there were three alternating narrative styles: parts were standard narration (typical sword-and-sorcery fantasy), then parts were being told by a marketing guy in the present day as his career collapsed and he went from Muckety-Muck to losing his job to getting mugged, and then parts were a stone-cutting manual which was increasingly crossed out and being used as a religious text. The story parts didn't really overlap; each subsequent part of the story was told in the next style. 2) Something closer to what you're describing happened in two _Star Trek: Voyager_ episodes, ["Living Witness"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Witness) and to a lesser extent ["11:59."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11:59_%28Star_Trek:_Voyager%29) There are "present" events and then how the characters interpret those events from a distant future.
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2016-01-05T18:53:57Z (almost 9 years ago)
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