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Book Riot’s 2025 Read Harder Challenge
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Samuel R. Delany
Simplex, Complex, Multiplex: Samuel R. Delany and Experience vs. Reading
James Wallace Harris
May 24, 2017
Can fiction ever really tell us what a lived experience is like?
