Melissa Gunn spent several years pursuing a science career before deciding it would be more fun to write fiction – though it turns out that there is even more research involved. She enjoys combining facts that seem fantastical with actual fantasy, and creating quirky characters with a sense of humour. When she’s not trying to figure out how a volcano demigod would problem-solve, she is feeding her backyard menagerie, chasing chickens out of the garden, or taking photographs of whatever will stand still for long enough (so mostly plants).
Octavia Cade is a speculative fiction writer from New Zealand. She has a PhD in science communication, and her academic work often focuses on how science is presented in horror and scifi.
A Taste of Gold is Deryn Pittar's first Young Adult novella. She loved creating the characters in this story, especially the Taniwha (pronounced tanny-far) from Maori mythology. This story has inspired her to write more stories for teenagers in the future.
Deryn, writing as Virginnia De Parte, also pens futuristic fiction, spiced with romance and adventure. She has four novellas published as e-books. Setting her stories in the future allows her imagination to run free, creating characters with unheard-of talents. She also has the pleasure of watching science and technology catch up with her imagination.
She is a published poet. She lives in the aptly named Bay of Plenty, New Zealand; along with four million people and a number of hobbits.
Is that sugar in your tea, or something else?
And really, how would you know?
Just how "life imitates art" is a perception we often take for granted, the ongoing fusion of technology into our daily routines may soon twist into wondering what is real, and what is not.
Is AI really for our betterment … or the first steps towards subjugation?
Artificial Sweetener is a collection of 17 speculative fiction short stories and poems from SpecFicNZ members exploring the wide world of AI. Rogue drones, unexpected upgrades, smart homes, haunting memories and integrated consciousness – this collection will both charm and unsettle you as it travels the expanse of AI.
Too sweet, just sweet enough or downright sickly? SpecFicNZ leaves you to decide with this fascinating collection of short stories and poems from worlds that may not be as far into the future as we'd like to think.
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Contributors: Octavia Cade | Charlotte Kieft | Ink Witch | Fin Patiliu | Nicky Taylor | Dani Morrison | Ashley Taylor | Deryn Lorraine Pittar | Jackie A. E. Ritchie | I. K. Paterson | Cerid Jones | S. J. Pratt | Gary M. Nelson | Anne Wilkins | B.T. Keaton | S. R. Manssen | Melissa Gunn
Título : Artificial Sweetener: Tales of AI - 100% Written by Humans
EAN : 9780473729455
Editorial : SpecFicNZ
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