Re:Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – ...
by bryanrasmussen on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:40PM
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This might have been useful to me in early eighties high school, I had a class in which I had to write book reports, once per week I think, and there was a sort of template as to how they had to be written with analysis of character motivations etc.
It's been a long time but I found something about the critical methodology used just extremely insulting to any piece of literature it was applied to, reductive and harmful to actually appreciating anything, so despite reading a minimum of 4 books a week I decided to write fake book reports. Generally crappy science fiction and fantasy was the genre.
I only remember one fake book I wrote a review of - The Hinterlands of Horlon - a crappy Tolkien rip off with a quest and everything, written by James R. Canton which was also a role playing character name I had for some occult spy game I was in at the time. Fake cover art would have been a nice topper to the fraud.
It's been a long time but I found something about the critical methodology used just extremely insulting to any piece of literature it was applied to, reductive and harmful to actually appreciating anything, so despite reading a minimum of 4 books a week I decided to write fake book reports. Generally crappy science fiction and fantasy was the genre.
I only remember one fake book I wrote a review of - The Hinterlands of Horlon - a crappy Tolkien rip off with a quest and everything, written by James R. Canton which was also a role playing character name I had for some occult spy game I was in at the time. Fake cover art would have been a nice topper to the fraud.