Hacker News with Generative AI: Fiction

Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS? (ycombinator.com)
This should be interpreted in the broadest sense to include books like both American Kingpin and Practical Vim as examples.

Computer Science, Books, Recommendations, Fiction, Non-Fiction

30 points by Eavolution 4 days ago | 24 comments

There is No Antimemetics Division (wikidot.com)

Fiction, Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture

38 points by 0x62 15 days ago | 3 comments

The King in Yellow (wikipedia.org)
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895.

Horror, Literature, Fiction, Short Stories

79 points by keiferski 16 days ago | 62 comments

How Translation Works, Book Title Edition (scalzi.com)
As any translator will tell you, translating a piece of fiction isn’t about simply transcribing words one-to-one from one language to another. It’s about capturing a vibe — making sure the tone and intent of the piece come through in words when a mere transliteration would fail.

Translation, Fiction, Language, Writing, Literature

61 points by janpio 18 days ago | 21 comments

Plausible Fiction – David Spivak (topos.institute)
Each of us can see problems in the world, cases where something we care about is in need of attention. On the global scale, I am deeply concerned about rampant pollution, countries engaged in hostile acts of aggression, political corruption, cultural fragmentation, the effects of modern technology on human lives and livelihoods, and more.

Fiction, Politics, Technology

7 points by samuel2 31 days ago | 0 comments

"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)

Creative Projects, Fiction, Technology, Audio

12 points by barry-cotter 33 days ago | 2 comments

Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf] (crisesnotes.com)

Fiction, Books, Literature

285 points by Jimmc414 45 days ago | 207 comments

Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support (persuasion.community)
Literary fiction is dead. Or, so we’ve been told. Perhaps we can agree it lies bleeding.

Publishing, Literature, Fiction, Trends

19 points by dredmorbius 55 days ago | 1 comments

Magical Thinking: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (2011) (laphamsquarterly.org)
Fiction rarely influences politics anymore, either because fewer people read it or because it has fewer things to say. Yet novels have affected America in large and unsubtle ways: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle shaped the contours of the national current no less profoundly than our periodic wars and bank panics.

Fiction, Politics, History, Literature

17 points by mitchbob 62 days ago | 6 comments

The Program, my fiction podcast launched on HN, 5 years and 1M downloads later (programaudioseries.com)
The world survived for another year, and The Program audio series with it.

Podcasts, Fiction, New Releases

30 points by I-M-S 73 days ago | 10 comments

Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming (theguardian.com)
Anyone who has been in a bookshop in the last few years will have noticed that Japanese fiction is experiencing an extraordinary boom.

Japanese Literature, Fiction, Culture, Trends

77 points by cyberlimerence 90 days ago | 117 comments

Neal Stephenson's New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy (nytimes.com)
“Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Revolution, 20th Century

13 points by ctoth 129 days ago | 1 comments

There is no antimimetics division V2 (qntm.org)
In fact I have two publishing deals. Some of you may have already seen this news, and you may be able to guess where this is going.

Publishing, Fiction, Books

21 points by andrewla 155 days ago | 9 comments

Modelling Time Travel in Fiction (qntm.org)

Time Travel, Fiction, Storytelling

8 points by not_a_boat 175 days ago | 1 comments

Glass Beads (outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Fiction, Substack, Writing

18 points by honoredb 177 days ago | 2 comments

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (mssv.net)

Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Humor

10 points by adrianhon 220 days ago | 2 comments

A Deal with the Devil (lithub.com)