Hacker News with Generative AI: Novels

Who will like this book? (yrsd.life)
I recently wrote a new blurb for the novel. I didn’t hate the old one (I’ve pasted it below for reference) - although there is no doubt a professional would have done it better. If anything, the style & tone & format of my new attempt is atypical. A publishing house probably wouldn’t use this blurb because it is too frenzied, and it risks turning too many people away, right at the door.

Writing, Book Marketing, Novels, Publishing

12 points by ynlefevre 16 hours ago | 7 comments

Siddhartha (wikipedia.org)
Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

Novels, Literature, Spirituality, India, Buddhism

50 points by simonebrunozzi 1 day ago | 39 comments

The Modern Novel: The world-wide literary novel from early 20th Century onwards (themodernnovel.org)
This website celebrates the world-wide literary novel since approximately the beginning of the twentieth century, arranged by nationality. It is a personal but extensive survey of literary fiction since around 1900, which will continue to grow.

Literature, Novels, 20th Century, History, Literary Criticism

8 points by Caiero 25 days ago | 1 comments

Denis Villeneuve eyes a new hard sci-fi epic adaptation, 'Rendezvous with Rama' (comicbasics.com)

Science Fiction, Film, Adaptation, Novels

4 points by namanyayg 25 days ago | 2 comments

David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died (nytimes.com)
David Lodge, the erudite author of academic comedy and a wide-ranging literary critic, died on Wednesday in Birmingham, England. He was 89.

Obituary, Literature, British Authors, Novels, Satire

94 points by lermontov 45 days ago | 19 comments

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (thebaffler.com)
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything? Edwin Frank, who is known for his love of the genre, is convinced they did. In his stylish, selective survey Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, he focuses on the genre’s formal innovations, which take readers’ minds off their somewhat vulgar appetite for suspenseful plot and relatable character and teach them to be satisfied, instead, with something like a diet of single sentences, exquisitely prepared.

Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Criticism

30 points by samclemens 69 days ago | 1 comments

NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I (github.com/barnoid)
An A.I. generated novelisation of the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Creative Projects, Novels, Film

15 points by robinwarren 82 days ago | 6 comments

Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us (newyorker.com)
“Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human exceptionalism.

Environment, Literature, Novels, Humanity

8 points by mitchbob 161 days ago | 3 comments

The Invincible (video game) based on Stanislaw Lem's novel (wikipedia.org)

Video Games, Science Fiction, Novels

6 points by mgl 235 days ago | 2 comments

Feelings over Facts: Conspiracy Theories and the Internet Novel (clereviewofbooks.com)

Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture, Novels, Psychology, Literature

4 points by bryanrasmussen 237 days ago | 0 comments

Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 (theguardian.com)