I’ve been a full member of SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Association — or, as it used to be: Science Fiction Writers of America) for several years. And even I didn’t know about their new release newsletter until just this week.
In a recent conversation with Bill Gates, filmmaker James Cameron revealed a growing challenge for science fiction creators: staying ahead of real-world technological advancements. He noted that rapid innovation, particularly in artificial intelligence, is outpacing the speculative futures traditionally envisioned by writers. For creators of speculative fiction, this raises a profound question: How do you imagine a future that hasn’t already arrived?
Two years ago, I wrote a post, “I Think AI Covers Have A Way To Go…”, that marvelled at the world’s first AI generated magazine cover, while at the same time suggesting that as “art,” it was lacking. Back then, faces and hands generated by AI were weird.
A year later, I wrote a follow-up post: “When I Said AI Art Wouldn’t Be On Book Covers Soon….,” that pointed out how badly I had underestimated the pace at which AI art generation would develop.
And here I am again, almost exactly a year later, shaking my head over the leaps and bound of AI image generation.
From Cameron Cooper’s blog: I know I’m really behind on this! I saw Dune: Part Two a while ago and
SRP author Cameron Cooper has released a collection of SF short stories, including several that have never been published before.
Cameron Cooper today released the final novel in his SF crime & mystery series, The Ptolemy Lane Tales. Life on
From SRP author Cameron Cooper: I’ve had the English translation of Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel, The Three Body Problem, sitting in
From SRP author Cameron Cooper: In the last few days The Economist ran a story reporting that wind turbines keep
From SRP author Cameron Cooper: Short and quick, today. One of Isaac Asimov’s classic and most well-known short stories is
From SRP author Cameron Cooper: The first really effective dystopian setting I saw in movies was Ridley Scott’s 1982 Bladerunner,
