I never took a speed reading class, but I do know how to recognize when a author -- of any book -- starts blathering on or tries to motivate. I can read whole pages in an instant in those circumstances.
The author has a contract, all competition has been eternally removed from his mindset. He made it. Finally he can, drone on and on about some obscure infodump he found.
Or even worser, show it to those upper class snobs & critic, who claimed that writing good characters and prose is as far out of the league for sciFi, as if it where burried at a rainbows end.