Telling Stories of Your Life: The Use of Second Person Narration in SF

By Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake

Originally published in IROSF in March, 2007

You Learn More About The History of Second Person

The genre of speculative fiction is not necessarily known for its formal experimentation. The thought experiments around which much science fiction and fantasy revolves are complex enough without adding new forms of narrative structure or unusual attempts at revealing story to the mix. Under the circumstances, it is that much more interesting that experiments ...