Welcome to The Week in Review, the weekly round-up for those too busy to follow Stupefying Stories on a daily basis. The theme for this week was “April showers bring May flowers,” so we published five stories at least tangentially related to this notion, plus continued our conversation on the topic of AI-generated narrations for audio books. One of these days we’ll have to use Amazon’s A.I. to generate an audio book of René Descarte’s Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences. That way, we really can hear an A.I. say, “I think, therefore I am.”
“Symbiosis” • by Jeannie Marschall
The humans came to this planet to study the ecosystem. They didn’t expect to become a part of it.
Published: April 29, 2024
“The Flowers I Grew for Her” • by Avra Margariti
Continuing with this week’s theme… oh, I’m not going to give you any spoilers. You’ll just have to read it.
Published: April 30, 2024
The Never-ending FAQ: A.I. and U 2
Continuing our discussion of A.I.-generated audio book narration. No Irish rock bands were involved. However, Brown Swiss cows were.
Published: May 1, 2024
“Rocket Spring” • by CB Droege
“You know, the weather on your planet would be much nicer if it was just a bit closer to the sun. You don’t mind if we move it, do you?”
Published: May 2, 2024
“The Phoenix in the Rain” • by Michael Ehart
In which we jump a few years into the future to catch the last-ever performance of Rigoletto in the Gran Teatro La Fenice. It was beautiful.
Published: May 3, 2024
“Seedling” • by Eric Fomley
We end the week with the sort of happy little tale we’ve come to expect from the writer who prefers to be known as “Prince Grimdark.” Feed me, Seymour!
Published: May 4, 2024
Next Week: The Pete Wood Challenge returns, with new stories from Tobias Backman, Brandon Case, Kai Holmwood, Kimberly Ann Smiley, and Ian Li!
1 comments:
The header picture is TOTALLY SILLY! (I loved it!) How many people got it?
Guy
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