Other Worlds

Tag: artificial intelligence

  • Hugo Awards: Best Novella (5th contender)

    Next we come to Catherynne Valente’s “Silently and Very Fast,” from Clarkesworld. You can read it here. This story is told from the point of view of an artificial intelligence, Elefsis — originally the name of the house for which the software was written as an operating system. Elefsis was created by a programmer, Cassian,…

  • Hugo Awards: Best Novella (1st contender)

    First in the novella category is Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Kiss Me Twice,” a futuristic police procedural, from Asimov’s. Read it here. Detective Scott Huang is investigating the murder of Neil Patterson, a developer, found dead on the roof of one of his buildings, his body lying near a table set for tea. Huang is assisted by…