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Short Story: Symbiosis by Kate Stuart
This one is so complex that it could require both author comment and some extra material to make sense of it all. I don't understand the dialog method; one side is in regular quoted speech, the other side is in some kind of either telepathy or alien nonverbal communication or something. It's not like speaking to someone in a coma where they can't reply, because it meshes too well.
And it really set out to build worlds! I might slightly prefer the dialog method be made simple somehow, and then it would allow me to focus more on the complex bio-needs of their mating styles.
This one really opens up doorways!