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Artificial intelligence or regurgitation of information
  • Creativity

Real Artificial Intelligence

I was talking recently with my favorite coder—this would be my son, of course—who is smitten with the subject of…

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  • Steampunk

Vintage Science Fantasy

Any discussion of fantastical technology must start long before the dreadful work of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the hopeful tales…

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  • Steampunk

The Essential Outline for Steampunk Fiction

I here submit to you the essential outline for Victorian science fantasy, a.k.a. steampunk fiction: Rob Higgs’ “Corkscrew”. ‘How, in…

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  • Steampunk

Victorian Steampunks

Victorians provide steampunk fiction with by far the greatest portion of its characters. This fact is no wonder, as theirs…

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  • Steampunk

George Dower – Victorian man

In this original steampunk trilogy, KW Jeter implements the propriety of the Victorian gentleman in his main character. George Dower…

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  • Steampunk

Steampunk is . . .

Although thirty-five years old now, the term steampunk remains well beyond the breadth of the average person’s lexicon to the…

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writing fiction
  • publishing

Self Publishing: Taboo to Virtue

I attended my first writers conference in 2004. It was a weeklong affair that started on Monday with a battalion…

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