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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AI SF
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:11:37 -0600
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On 12/14/2024 10:44 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> One guy is hmm, curating?,  AI SF stories on substack.  Looks like
> he's acting as a movie producer: "Get me a script about..."
> 
> 	Prompt: Write a 10,000 word1 short story about an asetroid
> 	miner marooned on an asteroid. Narrate in first person. The
> 	miner has a wry, ironic, and detached demeanor, but he
> 	really pines for his family back home. He has a number of
> 	robots to keep him company, including one which helps him
> 	with sexual needs, but as he becomes more aware of how
> 	inextricably marooned he is, he starts to think about
> 	descending through Dante's circles of hell. The overall
> 	message is one of increasing existential despair, akin to
> 	Sartres No Exit. Now, this is a science fiction story, but
> 	I want it to be a well-written, *literary* science fiction
> 	story--think something akin to Alastair Reynolds' style.
> 
> 	https://aiscifi.substack.com/p/the-tenth-circle
> 
> No, I haven't read it.  I'm surfing at the bagel shop.  Maybe later.

Well, that was scary.

Lynn