{"id":3357,"date":"2016-06-13T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T05:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2019-10-03T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:03:12","slug":"sibling-rivalry-returning-to-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/sibling-rivalry-returning-to-print\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sibling Rivalry” returning to print"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wow. After nearly 21 years, my first published short story, \u201cSibling Rivalry\u201d, is returning to print. Originally an experiment to try out an idea I wanted to use for a longer novel, ALGORITHMIC MURDER, I quickly found that I\u2019d caught a live wire with \u201cSibling Rivalry\u201d, which was my first sale to The Leading Edge magazine back in 1995.<\/p>\n

\u201cSibling Rivalry\u201d was borne of frustrations I had as a graduate student in artificial intelligence (AI) watching shows like Star Trek<\/i> which Captain Kirk talks a computer to death. No-one<\/i> talks anyone to death outside of a Hannibal Lecter movie or a bad comic book, much less in real life, and there\u2019s no reason to believe feeding a paradox to an AI will make it explode.<\/p>\n

But there are ways to beat one, depending on how they\u2019re constructed – and the more you know about them, the more potential routes there are for attack. That doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ll win, of course, but \u2026 if you want to know, you\u2019ll have to wait for the story to come out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSibling Rivalry\u201d will be the second book in Thinking Ink Press’s Snapbook line, with another awesome cover by my wife Sandi Billingsley, interior design by Betsy Miller and comments by my friends Jim Davies and Kenny Moorman, the latter of whom uses \u201cSibling Rivalry\u201d to teach AI in his college courses. Wow! I\u2019m honored.<\/p>\n

Our preview release will be at the Beyond the Fence<\/a> launch party next week, with a full release to follow.<\/p>\n

Watch this space, fellow adventurers!<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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