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One of my favorite novels. One aspect that I think is often overlooked is how FUNNY the story is. The interactions between Challenger and Professor Summerlee are great, as well as the fact that the plot is essentially kicked off by Malone wanting to impress a girl

Adams said that he got the idea for the book while backpacking through Europe. For whatever reason, he was laying in the grass at night, looking at the night sky, and the title just popped into his head. "Ford Prefect" was a small English car produced in the forties and fifties. If would have been as commonly recognized by the English as "Honda Civic" would be in the States. The BBC version was superb. Low production values but that's not important. This might be the series you're talking about.

I'm pretty sure the R.E.M. show at the bandshell was in the fall of '84. Another band that played there, quite possibly in '85, was Missing Persons.

You’re amazing! Your videos are always very enjoyable. By the way, what’s your favorite book by Asimov?, as you had a letter in one of his novels too! Which is so awesome.

Officer Friendly lol nice 😎

That is a delightful story. Thanks. :)

Don't want to offend you, but you are so "old" and "clueless" about modern writing. Ever thought about the possibility, that your outdated novel is no longer interesting for the now clearly younger audience? Ever thought about that it's not the fault of those sites but your outdated, generic writing and approach?

In the '60s, I also watched Saturday afternoon movies after the cartoons were over. The only one I remember was "Beast of Morocco" which was actually horror. I wouldn't mind finding that on VHS or any media. When I was in fifth grade, or maybe sixth, I was browsing in the youth room of our local library. There on the shelf was "Planet of Death" by Robert Silverberg. That was my first science fiction novel. In sixth grade, my Dad dropped me and my best friend off at the movie theatre where we watched "Planet of the Apes." That was a stunning movie in all respects, and it was my first "real, movie-theater" science fiction movie. That's how I got started.

_Having read on a different take on this book that _*_the "ESP" was more akin_* to *Transhumanism.* Without having read the book (ostensibly yet 8^ ) & merely checking out others takes at first, I'm quite interested in that position. Also also, have you read the November 19th release of Henry Kissinger's posthumous release, "Genesis," which according to _ActivistPost_ & *TechnocracyToday* is no less than a warning from a horrible person that wants humans to beat @.|. & we are ill-equipped to not get bullied. <--I can word that better but I'm taking time away to write here. _Cherish is the new love, be well._ *May God nod to ward thee & thine!*

I worked with a woman whose ex-husband was a screenwriter and she told me what the process was like for him. It dawned on me at that late point in my life that movies and stories don't fall in my lap fully formed from some cornucopia in heaven. Real people work really long and hard to create the entertainment I consume. Thank you all!

Read this book a couple of times. Unfortunately, the only interesting part of the novel I found was the middle part that takes place in the alternative universe. When he comes back to the humans, it's all kind of a big "meh" to me.

November has been Arthur C Clarke month for me, so good timing. Aside from about a half dozen of his novels, I am tackling a number of his shortnstory anthologies.He just has SO much to read that it can be difficult to choose my favourite of his short stories. I find all of his stuff just wonderful to read though, even more than I thought I would. His novels tend to really strike my existential buttons as well, which I enjoy.

I’m new to your wonderful channel, but I’ve watched many of your videos; I’m so glad to have found you. I want to say that you’re awesome, and you’re making my reading list higher than the Burj Khalifa! And I like that!

I "read" this in the 80's when I found a box of sci-fi paperbacks at the curb. I should say that my eyes followed the words and my brain tried to fit it into a context I could understand. It was difficult. I'll have to try it again.

I have read several Asimov but not this one. I do own it so it may be time to give it a shot! Not sure how I feel about a discussion on stupidity. I couldn't bring myself to watch Dont Look Up as it felt like too much of a documentary these days

Really sad what happened to Neil Degrassy Tyson

2001 is my favourite film by my favourite director! My only criticism is that Kubrick didn't even allude to the dimensions of the monolith.

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this is my favorite book, i admit it is my first postapocalyptic book so i am kinda biased, it made me discover my love for the genre but still it is a great book

I was 17 reading 1st few of the EE Doc Smith Lensman paperbacks into 1st of Navy days & never really finished the Series. But enjoyed the read that I did finish !! Its been 48 years but still remember the purple plant that was like heroin & the Lensmen were like Narcotic Officers trying to bust the drug Cartel-- like it was a whole Planet growing this purple plant !!

Never thought of myself as a writer-writer, but after completing a graphic design course, I started working on a screenplay. And I shocked myself in how well I was able to pull ideas together and write characters that felt real. That feeling of experiencing your own writing, seeing the quality of it is exhilarating. Knowing I challenged myself to this degree, especially having put all my eggs into one basket. But when I took a break and came back, it felt like a mystery to which it could become, struggling to bring it all together. Now it’s impossible for me to complete alone. So, I reluctantly turned to AI. I'm now using the foundation of my script and my notes as a blueprint, directing AI to take it where I need it to go. I’m not sure if I physically can't handle the emotional burden anymore after pushing myself so far, or if I’m just willing to let AI finish it to the standard I set for myself. Either way, the fact that I wrote it with my blood pushes me beyond any moral of how it 'should' be written on completion. Had I not written with as much emotional depth and merit, I would not feel the need to use AI to fill in the large emotional gaps I've left. Regardless, my drive to complete it stems from knowing I was able to push myself to that degree and create what I did, something I'm not sure if "most other people don't or cannot do" is one of the greatest universal feelings. To understand "The Joy Of Writing It Yourself", extends to mirror the challenge of completing it, a strange feeling. Leaving AI to complete it in a way that complements my past efforts. What I learned, and can definitely appreciate now, is just how lonely writing becomes, when consumed by a world of your making, completely debilitating to my social skills. For me, it was a constant fight between what I'm losing the in the real world, but what I could gain creatively at home. I pulled a lot of inspiration from Oppenheimer, Attack on Titan, and Nietzsche's and Carl Jung's Philosophy, not sure how it will handle these themes and ideas. ChatGTP is great for ideas and structure, but when it comes to dialogue and flow... its too repetitive and robotic. I’ve resorted to Claude 2.0 to get it done. Any human assistance would be greatly appreciated---preferably 🙂

Using loaded phrases like "doing the writing for you" tells me that you've already started from a conclusion before considering what LLM-heavy workflows actually involve. You mentioned a specific video you were basing some of these opinions on, can you link to it in the description? Because "having the AI write the story for you" isn't at all the experience with what I or anyone else I've talked to who actually uses AI has in terms of how it is used, and the scenario you seem to be describing seems to be a straw-man that doesn't relate to how these tools fit into what people are doing. I'd love to see the video you're reacting to, to clarify where you got this from. Yeah, there are scammers who are trying to flood the market with AI-generated crap they don't care about at all. I hope we can find ways of barring these people without impacting those who aren't doing that. But ignoring literal scammers, I'm not going to attack anyone who finds a tool to be useful. If the human involved considers the end result to be a true expression of their intent, then I don't care what tools they're using to do it, and *that* is what matters. Which is effectively the same thing that you're saying, but without the bias of unilaterally declaring that feeling to be impossible when AI is used as part of the process. I suppose I could summarise my position in a way which fits your terms as: we all need to suffer to create what we're trying to, but not all forms of suffering are necessary, and non-maximal joy is still valid. AI can be useful and helpful in many ways which can allow people to write and express themselves. I find your video to be extremely refreshing in a topic which is usually flooded with mere moral arguments or tenuous claims of theft. Thank you for sharing this perspective. I appreciated hearing it. I do however think that it is attacking an imagined enemy - or if such an enemy does exist outside of the circles I am aware of, it would still benefit from the mention of other uses for which I don't think your arguments hold.

Not a writer-writer. I write and draw comics. In my experience, the ones who latch onto the "AI" thing are the type of people who in the past would have said they really wanted to learn how to [insert whatever it is] but they just never do. Why? Because they don't want to actually draw, or write, or whatever it is. They just want to produce output. They don't really enjoy the process of doing the thing. When I first started drawing I was crap. I still did it, and eventually I learned how to do it well, but you never start with it. These people are output-focused. They want the good results NOW. And because they never took the time to really learn... they are satisfied with mediocrity. Because they never really see how much attention goes to the individual, minute details.

What are your thoughts on being ambiguous over what is based in fact and what is fiction for the sake of building intrigue? Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock comes to mind as a good example of this. It has the pitch of being based on a true story, but what parts are true, and what parts are fiction don't receive any distinction. Joan when asked about her story would refuse to elaborate on many details. From her perspective, the mystery of the meta-narrative was important to the main story.

Do you have an opinion on the Enneagram?

Graphic Designer here. I use chat GPT to streamline a lot of the emails I send to the customer base of the company I work for. These are, mind you, short informative and/or sales-oriented emails. I am stunned by the idea of people using chat and other language models for serious fiction, and non-fiction. I barely use chat outside of a commercial setting. These tools get repetitive very fast, so much so that I know anybody with decent media training can identify AI-generated text easily.

I read Triplanetary for the first time this month and found it a slog. I do own the hardcover Chronicles Vol 1, but suspect I might just move it along.

I recently did a beta test and attempted to generate a short novel outline and see if AI could write a novel. I got about 10 chapters churned out in a day and then tried to edit it. At the end of the day, it was obvious that the content was really bad and almost unreadable at some point. The AI generated was really garbage and took more time to attempt to try to rework it. Def not worth the time when it comes to writing long form content. I can see where sometimes it might be helpful to get past a mental block by giving some ideas, or maybe generating some outline material. Also, you are 100% correct in saying that when you write everything yourself, it is hands down a much more transformative and positive experience.

I guess a person who uses AI but involves their own judgement in the process could be called a director. Movie directors often don't write the script, play the actors, handle the camera, lighting etc.

Its a nice fantasy story and i like it but have some basic unbelievable facts like the conditions inside the alien cities ( strong gravity - very hot - humidity and full of Chlorine gas instead air ) If anyone enter to that area, he will immediately drown in the sweat from his body.. Then the chlorine gas will immediately dissolve in the sweat , result will be bleach solution..causes severe skin and flesh burns from everywhere, including eyes and fully blindness than severe poisoning ..and all will lead to the painful death in less than hour .. the writer thought if the person using gas mask will be able to live in those conditions but the fact is just like wearing the gas mask than try stay in the swimming pool with full of bleach instead water..

thanks for sharing this!

Hey Stephen, great video! Suggestion - Include your name and names of your books somewhere in the video description and/or bio. I wanted to check out your work, and it took me some time to find them.

Good for you sticking to your guns when they changed the ending like that and sticking with a version that you really like. I wish you great success, but if you do fail come back and give us some more advice :)

Didn’t know that I want to watch videos about Royalroad writers so bad, I just created an account, although I don’t write fantasy fictions with complex magic system and world building…

I appreciate you so much, gonna adapt this book into a film soon!

Just discovered this channel, what an interesting experience subscribing for more such tales.

I just created my first royalroad account, my short stories will suck but I’ll try writing anyway-

Crazy how one night lasted the rest of your life.

Very interesting. Thanks.

your voice changed here(just went through your channel, keep it up!)

Sci-fi? Anthologies? Inclusion of women authors? This man's book stacks? This is the YT algorithm doing right by me <3

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is a mighty tome and a great addition to an SF library. Keep the videos coming, it's great to hear your opinions.

Yeesh, that Encyclopedia of Science Fiction! It would have killed your bookshop to put that obnoxious sticker on the back?

Mike Tyson is the better speaker of the Tysons. I saw 2001 in 1968 at the Cinemascope theater in HOllywood. If you didn't see it in Cinemascope you never saw it as it was intended.

I think that in a couple of years we are not going to be having this conversation. It will get sorted out. How? Money. Someone will write an awesome book or create some fantastic music or tv show or movie with the help of AI and studios, publishers and music companies eyes will light up with dollar signs. Off to the races. Produced by: will be the tag. "This Novel Produced by Jim Z." This TV Series Produced by Scott R." "Music created and produced by Larry M." And it will just be known (maybe not) that they use AI in their work. Everyone will get to be James Patterson. Create a detailed outline, give it to another writer to write (in this case AI) It first drafts it and you, the human edit the hell out of it. And the result will have to be worthy! I'll give everything a first quick shot. Is the first paragraph compelling. Is the opening to a movie interesting. Is the song something I want to keep listening to. I've seen that piece of digital art that some guy won first prize (me goes to google) Jason M. Allen, a couple of years ago now. And I think, that it's pretty dang awesome. He said it took him 100 hours of prompting. So about 4 days of work. Anyway, I like it, is my point. And I don't care how it was made. Unless he stole part or most of it. I'm just now poking around in this AI world and I have not read any story or book written by AI or with the help of AI that I can get through. But I think it's coming.

Permit me to inquire about any known nexus between the intelligence officer Pierre Boulle and his awareness of the astrochimps flying V-2, Redstone, and Atlas rockets before his 1963 writing. If it can be documented, it would make a more interesting historical note.

Sometimes the movie is better than the book. I will say the book was excellent, so draw your own conclusions about the movie.🎉

I think that using AI for brainstorming while developing a story or for post-completion feedback probably is *functionally* no different than workshopping an idea with your writers’ group or getting feedback from an editor - you still need to (or, at least, should) use your own creativity and judgement to determine whether to follow the advice, and to build upon the advice in *your* writing. But having AI actually *write* for you is definitely cheating, even if you go through it and tweak it to give it your “own” style. And Amanda Caswell is definitely pulling the wool over her own eyes if she honestly thinks this was just a tool to help her. “Pseudowrite generated detailed descriptions that added depth and richness to my writing.” *Her* writing? If AI actually generated the descriptions, this is not *her* writing. She is appropriating work that is not hers, without attribution. Perhaps ethically this is no different than hiring a ghostwriter, but if she truly thinks that she wrote her novel, she is missing the point entirely - she is one of those people who wants to “be a writer”, rather than someone who wants to write. What matters to her is seeing her own name in print, not the sense of accomplishment from creating something. “I often struggle to paint vivid pictures with my words, but this mode changed the game for me.” What she is saying here is that she is not a good writer, so she gave up and let AI do the work for her. Yet she is self0deluded enough to gain a sense of accomplishment from this. However, her most damning statement is that she “added that I wanted a structure similar to that of Beverly Cleary”. This is blatant, outright *theft*, pure and simple. She is not a good enough writer to have emulated Beverly Cleary herself, so she did so by cheating. If you want to emulate another writer’s style or "create an homage", do the damn work yourself. Having AI do it for you is really fucking nigh to plagiarism.

More so than the atrocious writing and the fact that the characters are smoking and shooting revolvers in the sealed atmosphere of the spaceship, what I found most striking about the book was the repeated statements that Seaton "invented" the spaceship. All of it, apaprently, every system and subsystem and subsubsytem, all by himself. That definitely dates the work, but also harkens back to a romantic (and naive) vision from early science fiction adventure stories that we have lost now (because it is completely unbelievable) of the Lone Genius. Oh, we still have that to an extent, but the Lone Genius of today is limited, whereas in Smith's day his genius and courage and derring-do were literally unlimited. Technological progress has made us all well aware that no one person could "invent" or build an entire spaceship all by himself -- imagine someone building a working space shuttle all by themself in their garage, like some hyperbolic aerospace Steve Wozniak. (And even Woz didn't invent the Apple I entirely in isolation....) There was an innocence to Smith's vision that even the most starry-eyed hopepunk could not carry off today.

Hi, I hope you see this, but I am writing an essay for school on Delany and Darko Suvin's idea of "cognitive estrangement", how would you contextualize the two views in relation to each other.