The Digital Aesthete is now available in audiobook format from Dreamscape Audio. You can get it from any of your preferred audiobook platforms!
Dreamscape official book page:
https://www.dreamscapepublishing.com/single-audiobook/?titleid=21735
Audible:
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Digital-Aesthete-Audiobook/B0D3JWHHDZ
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Posted by Alex Shvartsman
I’m very pleased to announce that the audio rights for The Digital Aesthete have been acquired by Dreamscape Media and the audiobook will be out this summer. Stay tuned!
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Today’s software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow?
Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.
Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible futures are imagined by award-winning and bestselling human authors from the USA, UK, China, Ukraine, Chile, Japan, Madagascar, Brazil, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka.
Purchase links:
Amazon
B&N ebook / paperback
Kobo
Apple
You will also be able to read the stories FOR FREE at www.future-sf.com!
One story will be unlocked every week through February 2024. You can read the introduction and stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Jane Espenson upon release!
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We now have a cover for the anthology of stories about artificial minds interacting with art. The stories and the art are created by humans (the cover is drawn and designed by the spectacular K.A. Teryna!)
Typeface and the blurb below may not be finalized yet, but this is close enough to share!
The Digital Aesthete
Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI
Edited by Alex Shvartsman
Stories that explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and art, written by top science fiction authors from across the globe. Read the tales of robot painters, AI poets, and electronic gallery curators; dystopias where human artists must eke out an existence in societies where AI generates most of the content, and utopias where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.
Featuring fiction by authors from USA, UK, China, Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Madagascar, Argentina, Chile, Czech Republic, and Sri Lanka.
This book will be released on November 14, digitally distributed by UFO Publishing while the paperbacks are distributed by Arc Manor / CAEZIK SF & Fantasy.
There are several ways you can preorder this book. Our preference is that you do so via our Kickstarter campaign (which ends in just a few days) for the KAKISTOCRACY audiobook. The Digital Aesthete is available as an add-on in print and ebook formats but you can grab just that if that’s what you want.
Alternatives are to order direct from UFO Publishing here: (Ebook) / (Print)
Paperback is also available for preorder on Amazon, B&N, Bookshop, and your favorite local bookstore!
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Posted by Alex Shvartsman
The Digital Aesthete
Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI
Edited by Alex Shvartsman
UFO Publishing and the Future Affairs Administration are teaming up to produce our next collaborative project, which will explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and art. We hope to feature stories of robot painters, AI poets, and electronic gallery curators; dystopias where human artists must eke out an existence in societies where AI generates most of the content, and utopias where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.
The Digital Aesthete will be a hybrid anthology/e-zine project, with stories collected in a print and e-book anthology to be published in November 2023, and then gradually posted to the Future Science Fiction Digest website where readers will be able to enjoy them free of charge.
This project will feature 100,000 words of fiction by authors from over a dozen countries and a variety of languages. It will be edited by Alex Shvartsman (editor of Unidentified Funny Objects (UFO), The Cackle of Cthulhu (Baen), Humanity 2.0 (Arc Manor) and over a dozen other anthologies.) Cover art and design will be created by K.A. Teryna. Tarryn Thomas will assume the roles of copyeditor and creative advisor.
We will post further updates about this project at Future-SF.com and on the UFO Publishing Patreon page.
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Posted by Alex Shvartsman
Alex Shvartsman's Speculative Fiction 