I am about halfway through my first reading of Samuel Delany’s engrossing and challenging novel The Mad Man, which I heard someone call the actual sequel to Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, though it’s not science fiction and does not enter obviously the territory of that earlier novel. Delany shared on Facebook this very interesting dissertation that discusses it alongside Danielewski’s House of Leaves (among my perhaps top three favorite horror novels).

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