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From: davidd02@tpg.com.au (David Duffy)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) You May Enjoy This List of Books Written in the Second Person
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:02:55 -0000 (UTC)
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> You May Enjoy This List of Books Written in the Second Person
> 
> You find yourself inextricably drawn to this article--will it
> mention your favorite example? You must know!
> 
> https://reactormag.com/you-may-enjoy-this-list-of-books-written-in-the-second-person/

This little one has read 2/4 listed, but has read most of the others mentioned in the 
reader responses (_Molly Zero_ did become tiring after a while). 

Via "Second-person narrative: a bibliography", is it the earliest SFnal
example? Ralph Milne Farley's _The House of Ecstacy_ (1938), which starts, 

'This actually happened to you. And when I say "you", I mean you - now reading these very words.
For I know something about you - something deeply personal - something which, however, I am afraid
that you have forgotten.' Only a short story but.

Cheers, David Duffy.