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what's a work that you think is underrated/overlooked because of when it came out? (for example, it came out right between 2 major releases and got overlooked, or right after or right before the much more successful thing that redefined the genre it is in, or it came out when the genre/topic/style was out of fashion or it came out before the genre/topic/style got hot, etc)

A fair warning for anyone reading Roald Dahl's short stories (as I am right now). His early stories are zestless war stories. Derivative commercial crap. I was so disappointed!

Until I read "The Sound Machine."

This is the tale where he becomes the twisted and fantastical Roald Dahl we know in the children's books. THAT'S the place to start. Where he becomes a true writer.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/09/17/the-sound-machine

Chapter 1 - "Prologue"

It's the end of the revolution against the Triskele Corporation. The last sputtering naval battles occur in orbit around the capital planet of Triskele whilst the people besiege Villa Triskele's citadel. The young Carl Schafer bears witness as they drag the dictator from his sanctuary and force him to face the people he brutally suppressed for two thousand years.

https://youtu.be/1l0dEF3dqus

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