New story: “Algorithms and Lies”
July 29, 2022
My latest story, “ Algorithms and Lies, “ has just been published by The Fictional Cafe. It’s the cautionary tale of Mick Sanford, an old-school crime writer bedeviled by a new breed of editor, a bot named Max with boundless artificial intelligence.
Contemptuous of her and the modern world in general, Mick tries to bluff and bluster his way to publication. But he ends up as the villain in a story he never meant to write, one that could have been scripted in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — or in the Twilight Zone.
I don’t want to be a spoiler, but if you’re a fan of classic science fiction, it’s fair to say that like HAL 9000, Max blows Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics to smithereens. I hope you like it. Check out the other great writing in The Fictional Cafe too.
Originally published at http://davesswan.wordpress.com on July 29, 2022.
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