Unsettling Futures
Matthew ClaxtonOverthinking stories about robots and ray guns.
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Emerging from the shadows…
Hello! You may have noticed my absence from this newsletter! Or you just forgot it existed, or thought it was going into your spam folder and decided “Good riddance!”
Anyway, I am back, briefly, because I have, shockingly, accomplished thi...
I learned everything I need to know about fantasy from a sci-fi novel
The memory of much non-epic, non-series 1980s and ’90s fantasy has faded from the modern scene, but around the turn of the century, it was pretty much acknowledged that one of the best and most original writers in the genre was Michael Swan...
The Creator doesn't even care about what it's about
I went into The Creator, the new movie directed and co-written by Gareth Edwards, almost entirely cold. I’d seen the trailer once, I’d seen a few positive or middling comments, and I understood the gist of the plot to be about a war between...
Ninja Turtles, Sweet Valley High, and why AI isn't (yet) a threat to writers
AI is going to eat fiction! The next generation of LLMs will churn out novels that will win everything from the Hugo to the Booker Prize! Everybody panic!
I don’t know what’s going to happen in 10 years, or 25, or 50.
But in the immediat...
A Very Safe Hugos List and the Alternatives
I’ve started reading this, and it’s pretty good. Bleak, but good.
It’s been several weeks now since the Hugo finalists were announced, and the usual round of mild controversy that comes with every awards season – Why wasn’t this nominated?...
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