Tag: Lincoln Michel
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Ted Chiang on AI is required reading
One of the best thinkers on the topic is back with another brilliant piece
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The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
The world in this book is extremely well-realized. Michel must have spent a ton of time putting together the details of it. You could carve a half-dozen dystopian novels from elements that this book treats as ephemeral. It’s a hellscape of corporate ownership, environmental disaster, body modification and surveillance. So much of the world building…
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Windeye by Brian Evenson
This short story was linked to in Lincoln Michel’s substack and it’s a fast, great read: a pair of siblings realize there’s one more window on the outside of their house than on the inside.
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How Novellas Became Novels
This is a good article by Lincoln Michel. Part of it reminded me of in On Writing by Stephen King when he talks about the design of a book – not only is it paper weight and cover and typeface and photography, but margins and page count and frequency of paragraph breaks, etc.