My book "We Broke the Moon" is part of this special promotion of books of Speculative Fiction, Fantasy and SciFi with LGBTQIA+ characters by LGBTQIA+ authors. Have a look 🙂
@Zumbador the assigned gende ehm: genre!, "Hope Punk Science Fiction", sounds fascinating!! Will consider reading it. [Is it available digitally somewhere? Will check later.] #bookstodon@bookstodon
@rebekka_m@bookstodon Yes! It's available as an ebook from Amazon, Kobo, Apple and a number of other shops. You should be able to find those links in the promo.
Actually, the "virtual voice" technology is not AI. It's the same sort of text-to-speech system that's existed for decades, just in a more refined form. A considerable amount of time (money) and (human) effort was still required to make hundreds of subtle adjustments too how it reads that particular book, which would be worthless and inapplicable to any other. At the end of the day, it's a tool, used by a human, like a word processor, pagination software, or any sort of audio/video editor. Moreover, if I hadn't used the tool, I would have simply done the narration myself, as I did for the audiobook of my first novel, so the only person who might have potentially lost a job to it was me. 🙂
ICYMI: Today is the last day of the Kindle eBook giveaway for my first novel, "The Big Men," which begins the "Wells" branch of "The Nod/Wells Timelines."
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Other things I didn't like in #TheDarkArtificases -trilogy:
Jaime, Diego and Christina problem and "solving" it. Camoon, you can not make that kind of issue and check off it just saying "he was just drunk then". No, no, no. You can not solve issues just like that, it had needed more effort. And beside, Christina never even talked about that with Jaime himself.
Also Tavvy were much more childish, than he should have. He was 7 years old, but acted like 4-5 years old.
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What I loved most: Emma and Julian, Kit and Ty, Christina, Mark and Kieran. Also Dru. I am most expecting to read about Kit, Ty and Dru in the next trilogy.
if you know of good space operas with civilizations that aren't themed around the Roman Empire and are ideally written from non-Western perspectives (that is to say, not "the UN turned into the space hegemony" type shit), i would really like to hear about them!
You might also be interested in Greg Egan's Clockwork Rocket trilogy, which is most definitely non-Roman empire and non-Western perspective. Not a human to be found anywhere, not even human analogues.
@Tim_Eagon Hey, another Madisonian! Let me know if you've ever got any one-shots or some-shots happening. Would be fun to connect with more local gamers.
It's true! You can get the brand-new audiobook edition of "Shards" for just $4. That's over seven hours of spine-tingling speculative fiction for way less than a dollar per-hour. Grab it now before I come to my senses and start charging what it's actually worth! 🎧🙂👍
Nice to see Ronald McGillvray's "Tales From The Parkland" hanging in there on Amazon's "Hot New Releases" chart a week after launch. I'd say that's a well-deserved success and would highly encourage any speculative-fiction fans out there to give it a read.
‘The Invention of Morel’ (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares is usually classed as ‘literary fiction’ (whatever that means), but for me it’s an exemplary piece of fantastika.
AVAILABLE NOW AS AN AUDIOBOOK! - "Shards" - The first short-fiction collection from The Nod/Wells Timelines, featuring 8 legendary tales of science fiction, horror, and the paranormal.