MOONCALVES: Strange Stories

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NO Press 2023

Edited by John WM Thompson

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Stories written by Briar Ripley Page, Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, Janalyn Guo, Brian Evenson, Jaime Corbacho, Lisa Tuttle, L. Marie Wood, Adam Golaski, Chelsea Sutton, Meghan Lamb, Christi Nogle, Glen Hirshberg, J.A.W. McCarthy, Sasha Geffen, Mark G. Meyer, Thomas Mavroudis, Daniel M. Lavery, Nathan Breakenridge, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jeff Wood, Elwin Cotman, Sofia Samatar, and Jaime Corbacho.

All Living Writers Listed – by Aye Eye

A huge project started in the earlier days of AI Art availability.

Links to AI visual experiments as triggered by my gestalt real-time reviews since 2008.

PLEASE SEE THE LIST OF ALL THE MANY LINKS HERE

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Each image is clickable and available as a separate enlarged one.

All seemingly inspired by WIMSATT’S INTENTIONAL FALLACY / DES LEWIS GESTALT REAL-TIME REVIEWS / NEMONYMOUS / PARTHENOGENETIC LATE-LABELLING / THE SYNCHRONISED SHARDS OF RANDOM TRUTH AND FICTION (WEIRDMONGER)

EDIT (February 2024)— It was exactly a year ago I started experimenting with AI Visual Art, little knowing what I was entering. There was indeed much stimulation in triggering shifting collages from my gestalt real-time reviews of individual authors. But that was then, and now is now. From today, I no longer have this facility.

 

Living writers with visual AI experiments triggered by my reviews of their work into shifting collages… (1)

Links…

STEPHEN KING

BERNARD MACLAVERTY

THOMAS LIGOTTI

NINA ALLAN

RHYS HUGHES

NICHOLAS ROYLE

STEVE RASNIC TEM

GLEN HIRSHBERG

QUENTIN S. CRISP

COLIN INSOLE

JOHN HOWARD

MARK VALENTINE

KAREN HEULER

JULIE TRAVIS

CHARLES WILKINSON

REBECCA LLOYD

STEVE DUFFY

REGGIE OLIVER

D. P. WATT

ALEXANDER ZELENYJ

CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN

LIVING WRITERS TO BE CONTINUED HERE: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/aicraft-being-flown-amid-the-amorphous-thermals-of-literature/

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Fourteen

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 © 2022 by Ellen Datlow — my previous reviews of this editor’s books here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/ellen-datlow/

Stories by Simon Bestwick, Matthew Holness, Glen Hirshberg, Michael Marshall Smith, Lee Murray, G. V. Anderson, A. C. Wise, Christopher Golden, Steve Duffy, Gerard McKeown, Brian Evenson, Jonathan Raab, Eoin Murphy, Kaaron Warren, Simon Strantzas, Sarah Lamparelli, Ian Rogers, Steve Toase, Gemma Files, Carly Holmes, Eric LaRocca, Robin Furth, Laird Barron.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

Best New Horror #31

PS PUBLISHING 2021

Edited by Stephen Jones

My previous reviews of the publisher HERE and the editor HERE

Stories by Scott Bradfield, Maura McHugh, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jonathan Carroll, Alison Littlewood, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Bacon, Don Webb, Ron Weighell, Angela Slatter, Richard Gavin, Michael Chislett, Mark Samuels, Richard Christian Matheson, Dale Bailey, Simon Strantzas, Kristi DeMeester, Steve Rasnic Tem, Reggie Oliver, Tanith Lee, Glen Hirshberg, D.P. Watt, Michael Marshall Smith.

As I had the honour of my stories being included in this series (1, 2 & 6), I felt I wanted to review this last one, as a heartfelt note of gratitude to all concerned, and to express my congratulations to Stephen Jones in particular…

When I read this mighty book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…