The possible merger of humans and machines has been a fascination for science fiction writers since the mid-20th century. With the proliferation of co ...

Google is funding short films that move away from AI doomsday scenarios and examine potential benefits of the technology.

Author Bret Bodlovic is set to release his debut short story collection, *Performance on the Bluff*, on May 23, 2025. The ...

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his ...

The fiction, it just is a way to open it up. The story "Lost ... work — for example, writing a whole piece that's one sentence. That's a lot to get through just in a short story form, but ...

But a piece of short fiction ... on a lot of examples, it learns patterns in those examples to make predictions, like how metafictional prose might flow. Models such as OpenAI’s fiction writer ...

A game built out of successive fantasy and science fiction short stories that switch up the ... for me to play with someone who, for example, struggled with using both analog sticks at the same ...

EMILY BRIGHT: Give me an example ... fiction comes in. ASHLEY SHELBY: Exactly. CATHY WURZER: That was MPR's Emily Bright speaking with St. Paul author Ashley Shelby about her new short story ...

to make fiction all the more powerful by blurring the line between hard facts and the invented. It owes little to the Chekhovian example and is potentially the most interesting new direction the short ...

"Mantis," for example, is about the love life of the insect that gives the story its title ... emotionally resonant short fiction. The fabulist takes and great writing make Green Frog a great ...

The Short Fiction International Short Story Prize 2024 is open for entries ... unwaged, or a student, for example). Free entries will be judged blind, the same as paid entries. 8. Blind judging: ...