The science fiction anthology «THE DIGITAL AESTHETE. Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI» has been published in English in the USA. The book has been released in an electronic edition and in paper form. The anthology includes 17 SF stories by authors from different countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Japan, Madagascar, South Africa, Sri Lanka, UK, Ukraine, and USA. The anthology includes the short story «The Unknown Painter» by Henry Lion Oldie. The foreword to the book was written by its editor-compiler Alex Shvartsman (USA). All the stories in the anthology address the topic of artificial intelligence and art — and the interaction of AI through art with humans — from a variety of viewpoints. The anthology includes stories by both well-known authors and those whose names are still rising in the sky of world science fiction.
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CONTENTS:
THE BRAVE NEW GENERATIVE WORLD by Alex Shvartsman
SILICON HEARTS by Adrian Tchaikovsky
FORGED by Jane Espenson
A BEAUTIFUL WAR by Fang Zeyu, Translated by Nathan Faries
STAGE SHOWS AND SCHNAUZERS by Tina Connolly
THE MERCER SEAT by Vajra Chandrasekera
GOOD STORIES by Ken Liu
THE FACTORY OF MARKET DESIRES by Rodrigo Culagovski
THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN by Julie Nováková
EVE & MADA by Mose Njo, Translated by Allison M. Charette
TORSO by H. Pueyo
THE LAUGH MACHINE by Auston Habershaw
THE UNKNOWN PAINTER by Henry Lion Oldie, Translated by Alex Shvartsman
HERMETIC KINGDOM by Ray Nayler
A WORLD OF TRAGIC HEROES by Zhou Wen, Translated by Judith Huang
EMIL’S LABYRINTH by Anna Mikhalevskaya, Translated by Alex Shvartsman
READER ALICE by Taiyo Fujii, Translated by Emily Balistrieri
PROMPT by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey
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THE DIGITAL AESTHETE
Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI
Edited by Alex Shvartsman
Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with UFO Publishing
The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI Copyright © 2023 by UFO Press.
Stories copyright © 2023 by the authors
Translations copyright © 2023 by the translators
Cover art and graphics design: K.A. Teryna
Copyeditor: Tarryn Thomas
ISBN: 978-1-64710-110-7
First Caezik/UFO Press Edition. First Printing November 2023.