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On 12/17/2024 11:11 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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
> 

Yes. And the name through me for a minute. Dave Friedman