Hey! Go check out my review on 1001 Parsecs Books of Last of the Breed by Louis L’Amour, which I think is one of his best books!
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How I would vote now: 2022 Hugo Award (Best Novel)
The Nominees Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Actual Results How I Would Have Voted… Continue reading How I would vote now: 2022 Hugo Award (Best Novel)
1001 Parsecs Books: The Storm Testament IV by Lee Nelson
If you haven’t read my book blog yet, you should go check it out! I’m posting over there twice a week, with reviews and ruminations on the books I read. This particular one is on Lee Nelson’s The Storm Testament IV, which I think is the best in the series so far.
Why Nick Cave is wrong about human creativity and generative AI
First of all, I don’t think that Nick Cave is entirely wrong. Laying aside how ChatGPT is just one of the many LLMs that are publicly available, and that using it as a stand-in for all of generative AI is like saying “AOL Online” when you mean “the internet,” he does make a fair point… Continue reading Why Nick Cave is wrong about human creativity and generative AI
How I would vote now: 1955 Hugo Award (Best Novel)
The Nominees They’d Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (also published as The Forever Machine) The Actual Results How I Would Have Voted Explanation Things worked a little differently back in 1955. This was only the second time the Hugo Awards were given out (the first was in 1953), though it was… Continue reading How I would vote now: 1955 Hugo Award (Best Novel)
2024 Predictions for the Publishing Industry
I started working on this post over the Christmas break, but then things got so busy that I never got around to writing anything more than the section headings. The year is still young, though, so I figured it was worth posting it anyway, even if only as a list of bullet points.
How Not To Write An AI-Assisted Novel
The worst way to write a novel with generative AI is to make the AI do all the work. In fact, thinking of it in terms of “how much of the work can I get the AI to do?” is pretty much guaranteed to give you a really crappy book by the end of it.… Continue reading How Not To Write An AI-Assisted Novel
Thoughts on the 2023 Hugo Awards
This video gives a pretty good recap of the endless fountain of scandals surrounding the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon and Hugo Awards. Larry Correia also gives an interesting take on it on his blog, and in his writing podcast. My initial thoughts: Laying aside all of the knee-jerk internet outrage (and schadenfreude), though, I do find… Continue reading Thoughts on the 2023 Hugo Awards
One of the coolest pictures I’ve seen on APOD in a long time
Believe it or not, none of those light arcs are fake. If you were standing there next to the photographer, you would have seen them all.
Oh, Murderbot…
Why I initially enjoyed the Murderbot books Why I’ve decided I don’t enjoy them any more