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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.

Jul 10 •

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.

Jul 1 •

The SFF Magazine Canon

EDIT: We now have a complementary reference post with a comprehensive magazine list.

Jun 27 •

Shunrō Oshikawa, ChatGPT, and the Birth of the "Pre-Translator"

How LLMs could help open up whole new worlds of literature

Jun 24 •

Golden Age Science Fiction is Being Reborn... in China?

Part I of 'Why Chinese Science Fiction Feels Different'

May 31 •

The Web Fiction Canon

A reasonably complete guide to online literature's four main scenes

May 25

The Most Underrated Speculative Fiction Writer of the 2010s is... Scott Alexander?

Why speculative fiction should pay attention to Substack's favorite intellectual

May 16 •

The Future of Fantasy is Sakug(AI)

How GenAI might transform fantasy literature without destroying the human element

Apr 19 •

"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.

Apr 16 •

How "Concrete Island" by J. G. Ballard Echoes the Purgatory of Childhood

Fantasy reminds us of how Child World can feel truly inescapable

Mar 15 •

The Problem with "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather"

Digital worlds in mainstream science fiction are usually unconvincing

Feb 25 •

'17776' by Jon Bois and the Slow Cancellation of the Future

What happened to the future of science fiction?

Feb 14 •

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