A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Pixabay First Post of the New Post Day Welcome to the first post of our new post day of the week, Mondays! We’ll see how this schedule works out for most of you for the next month or so. If another day seems to work better, then we’ll move it to that day. Let me know in the comments box below how you like Mondays as the new post day.  Human Authors Vs. the AI Authors A few years ago in my writer’s critique group, one of the other members, who I believe worked in computer technology, decided to do an experiment. So, he distributed to us copies of two poems: one was written by himself and another written by an AI program. We had to guess which one was written by the AI program and which one was written by him. I told myself that there was no way I was going to let a machine fool me into thinking what’s human-made art. So, I read both versions and guessed each correctly. I’ve always had a good eye for what’s human-produced and what’s machine-produced. But now I'm not so sure a...

I’m submitting my complete file for the print edition of “Circa Sixty Years Dead” early next week. Hopefully it will be available for purchase by Wednesday. I’ll post an update for the release on my Facebook page and definitely here next week. As busy as a weekend it has been, I’m squeesing in some time for a summer sci fi flick— Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets . Valerian I’m always looking for the Star Wars -type blockbuster each summer and it looks like Valerian could be it. In fact, according to TheHollywood Reporter , it even borrows from Star Wars . However, according to the bulk of critics , it hasn’t been much of a blockbuster on this weekend of its release. But it’s definitely blockbuster-like yet with its own style and vision from its director, Luc Besson, who also directed The Fifth Element back in the ‘90s and look what became of that. It became a cult classic, and hopefully this movie will too. The reason I say that is because...