OK, I admit it… I got lazy. I wanted to quickly finish some non-fiction work, so I could move on to new, more exciting projects… … I’d already discovered the efficiency of asking ChatGPT research questions, rather than searching in the traditional way and then wading through pages for the information I now wanted. ItContinue reading “The Use of AI / LLMs in Creative Writing…”
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Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series:Utopia, Power, and Moral Complexity…
“The Culture” is a series of nine novels and one short story collection written by Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas (1987) The Player of Games (1988) Use of Weapons (1990) The State of the Art (1989) Excession (1996) Inversions (1998) Look to Windward (2000) Matter (2008) Surface Detail (2010) The Hydrogen Sonata (2012) “The Culture”Continue reading “Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series:Utopia, Power, and Moral Complexity…”
Book review: “Colony Mars” by Gerald M. Kilby and “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel…
I recently finished listening to the first 3 books in Gerald M. Kilby’s “Colony Mars” series, and reading “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel in paperback. The stories are quite different… however, I found both to be engaging in some ways, sometimes exciting, but also with irritations that I noticed as I progressed with them. Here’sContinue reading “Book review: “Colony Mars” by Gerald M. Kilby and “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel…”
Book Review: “The Windup Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi
Originally published in 2009, I was gifted a copy of “The Windup Girl” a couple of years ago and have just gotten around to reading it. WOW! What a fantastic story!And what a perfectly executed piece of writing! On the front cover of my copy there is a quote from Time Magazine claiming that ‘BacigalupiContinue reading “Book Review: “The Windup Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi”
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