Tuesday, March 19, 2024

 


Best of Book Blurbs March 2024




"The Coffin-Maker's Book of Dark Tales" is a classic to be long heralded and treasured by all fans of dark and weird literature."
Barry Lee Dejasu, author of Black City Skyline and Darker Horizons






Book: The Man Who Ate His House. Blurb: “A brilliant concept: A bot writes stories based on tried-and-true tropes (that are ostensibly to be avoided under the guidance of the 1945 manual: 101 Plots Used & Abused). The stories in The Man Who Ate His House run the gamut of laugh out loud humorous, sardonic, tear-jerking, and engaging—often ending with a moral to ponder. There is a thread that runs through each story that points directly to the algorithmic life experience of the bot. As a short story writer, I am not sure whether to view A.I. as a fraud to be outed, or as a viable contender in the literary world. One thing that I do know is that if A.I. is ever given a soul, we are all doomed.” -- Amy Kurman, author of Shorts: and other fiction