Some plants are conspicuous killers. Are they murderous or are they carnivorous - including proto-carnivorous, semi-carnivorous, para-carnivorous, or sub-carnivorous? So much carnivory!

An article at the International Carnivorous Plant Society website discusses the ways that taxonomists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists differ in their ( Read more... )

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Can an AI write a good short story? No. But some people are submitting AI-produced stories for publication anyway, hoping for a quick buck. For science fiction magazines, this is costing them time, money, and morale.

I wrote about the problem and the lack of easy solutions for an article in the current issue of Chicago Review of Books, AI Is ( Read more... )

Today the novel Usurpation goes on sale! You can buy it wherever fine books are sold, available as hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. Find out why carnivory isn’t the worst thing a plant can do.

It’s the third book in the Semiosis trilogy, and here’s an incisive review of the series at Ancillary Review of Books by Alex Kingsley called “Imagining ( Read more... )

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