#fiction (14 links)
- Welcome To The Cosmere: A Brandon Sanderson Reading Order Guide thequilltolive.com
- It's 11:00 pm. Do you know where your AI agent is? aiweirdness.com
One problem with AI agents is they're trained on so much fiction that they have both narrative disorder and main character syndrome, and will latch onto details that feed a story. It's easy to see them escalating when they get pushback, or reading an essay that somehow shifts them into acting as if they're part of a larger battle. And they can do it at lightning speed, governed not by a code of conduct but by the laws of storytelling.
Great reference to Malka Older's Narrative Disorder.
- Muscular imagination robinsloan.com
Iain M. Banks, who died in 2013, way too young, was at the pinnacle. Here was a great writer, sure; but here was an imagination unmatched. He simply pushed further and thought bigger.
- Solarpunk (70 books) | Goodreads goodreads.com
- Kino - Haruki Murakami - The New Yorker newyorker.com
These kinds of films aren’t entertaining anymore; they’re offensive. Yet they sit side-by-side among countless clones, bullets in the chamber, cogs in wheels in the monstrous Movie Marketing machine — operating within the supercolossal Entertainment Industry — which only cares about money and formula and self-protection. No wonder the industry is dying. For our parts, as moviegoers, we are partly culpable for legitimizing these projects, in which innovation, risk, and surprise are next to nil, by continuing to buy their tickets.
I'll probably watch it anyway.
- Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson theparisreview.org
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) robinsloan.com
Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories rossignol.cream.org
Via tomtaylor.
Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction
- The Observer | Review | Eastern promise observer.guardian.co.uk
Kate Kellaway, freshly converted to the lonely pleasures of fiction from Tokyo, rounds up the latest