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Addendum: Shunrō Oshikawa, ChatGPT, and the Birth of the "Pre-Translator"
An AI translation, for instance, may be nothing like a human-crafted translation.
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Reference: The SFF Magazine Canon (now with foreign magazines)
Last week, I posted a comprehensive guide to the major SFF magazines, as well as a general overview of how the current landscape came to be.
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The SFF Magazine Canon
Last month I talked about “The Web Fiction Canon”, which ended up being by far our most popular post.
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Shunrō Oshikawa, ChatGPT, and the Birth of the "Pre-Translator"
How LLMs could help open up whole new worlds of literature
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Golden Age Science Fiction is Being Reborn... in China?
Part I of 'Why Chinese Science Fiction Feels Different'
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The Web Fiction Canon
A reasonably complete guide to online literature's four main scenes
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The Most Underrated Speculative Fiction Writer of the 2010s is... Scott Alexander?
Why speculative fiction should pay attention to Substack's favorite intellectual
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The Future of Fantasy is Sakug(AI)
How GenAI might transform fantasy literature without destroying the human element
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"The Flower that Bloomed Nowhere" and the Art of Good Fantasy Conversations
One of the draws of fantasy literature is that it offers comfort and consistency in the form of its tropes.
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Gordon
How "Concrete Island" by J. G. Ballard Echoes the Purgatory of Childhood
Fantasy reminds us of how Child World can feel truly inescapable
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The Problem with "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather"
Digital worlds in mainstream science fiction are usually unconvincing
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'17776' by Jon Bois and the Slow Cancellation of the Future
What happened to the future of science fiction?
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