PapyrusBrigade has movedMatthew Hughes on the beauty of Human Work
I've listened to this episode of the AI-Freecast several times now. A cri de coeur on how AI is fundamentally anti human. Beautiful and well worth a listen.
martinI am currently reading "Fools Errant" by Matthew Hughes, a work set in the Dying Earth and deliberately imitative of Vance's style.
There's a great magic item: a cloak of invisibility that emits a staggeringly foul stench. It's a clever drawback that I hadn't thought of before.
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N-gated Hacker NewsIn a world where #manifestos are the new #selfies 📸, Matthew Hughes delivers a riveting revelation: people are important! 🙄 Meanwhile, Ed Zitron's tech opinions are as "moderate" as a toddler's tantrum 🍭. Generative AI can't write prose like this, and the robots are breathing a sigh of relief 🤖💨.
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are-the-point #techopinions #generativeAI #MatthewHughes #EdZitron #HackerNews #ngated
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/people-are-the-point #techopinions #generativeAI #MatthewHughes #EdZitron #HackerNews #ngated
Would you like to read 9 cracking Sword & Sorcery stories in a very Jack Vance-esque style? I highly recommend "9 tales of Raffalon", by Matthew Hughes.
Pick it up DRM-free here for £3: https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/209588343/9-tales-of-raffalon/matthew-hughes/
In an age of wizards and walled cities, Raffalon is a thief. His skills allow him to scale walls, tickle locks, defeat magical wards. But somehow things often go the way they shouldn't...
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9 Tales of Raffalon
In an age of wizards and walled cities, Raffalon is a journeyman member of the Ancient and Honorable Guild of Purloiners and Purveyors. In other words, a thief.His skills allow him to scale walls, tickle locks, defeat magical wards. He lifts treasures and trinkets, and spends the proceeds on ale and sausages in taverns where a wise thief sits with his back to the wall.But somehow things often go the way they shouldn't and then Raffalon has to rely upon his wits and a well calibrated sense of daring.Here are nine tales that take our enterprising thief into the Underworld and Overworld, and pit him against prideful thaumaturges, grasping magnates, crooked guild masters, ghosts, spies, ogres, and a talented amateur assassin.Includes "Inn of the Seven Blessings," from the bestselling anthology, ROGUES, and "Sternutative Sortilege," which appears only in this collection.Praise for Matthew Hughes:"Matthew Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone except Jack himself" - George R.R. Martin"Heir apparent to Jack Vance" - Booklist"Hughes's boldness is admirable"- New York Review of Science Fiction"Hughes effortlessly renders fantastic worlds and beings believable"- Publishers Weekly"A towering talent"- Robert J. Sawyer"A treasure" - David Gerrold
Midu HadiToo much of a good thing can be bad! Or so the characters in this novel find out when Hell goes on strike and bad things stop happening, leading to disastrous results!
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Paul SemelIn my new interview with writer Matthew Hughes, he talks about his new novel, "A God In Hiding," and its connections to 2019's "A God In Chains."
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-a-god-in-hiding-author-matthew-hughes/
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https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-a-god-in-hiding-author-matthew-hughes/
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Michael FrascaI just finished reading Baldemar, #MatthewHughes' collection of stories chronicling the life and times of the Dying Earth's analogue of #MikeEhrmantraut.
I highly recommend this book. My full review is on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5678547248
Michael Frasca's review of Baldemar
5/5: Albuquerque's Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) probably exists across the myriad worlds of the multiverse. In the Matthew Hughes universe of the Dying Earth, wizards and walled cities, Ehrmantraut is known as Baldemar, henchman to thaumaturges and dukes. Intelligent and resourceful with loads of street smarts, Baldemar tries to keep his liege from self-destructing via magic, psychotic demi-gods, demons, or just plain-old baddies. "Here is what you are going to do..." Eight of the ten novellas, novelettes and short stories appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science F...
#TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction #FandSF #FavoriteStories #ScienceFiction #Fantasy May/Jun 2023
The Dire Delusion by #MatthewHughes
“Once you’ve winnowed away the chaff, you make your bread out of what grain remains.”
Discriminator Cascor has stumbled on a nefarious and convoluted scheme to do…what exactly? The game is afoot!