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Alice by Gary Gautier --- with a surprise new ending by HAL9000

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Alice by Gary Gautier --- with a surprise new ending by HAL9000

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We will Discuss Gary's new novel Alice over zoom. After the discussion we will see how HAL9000 (GPT-3; Chat GPT; Midjourney) interprets the novel. In my experiences, AI does a good job with ending of books, lets see how HAL changes the ending.

Book description:
Alice lives with her lover, Evelyn, in a cabin set in a dreamlike forest. Their hamlet, New Arcadia, is a small hippie utopia, but the utopian surface begins to crack for Alice when strange things start happening. A small deformed creature with a bowling ball head appears out of nowhere and turns to Alice for support. Her trips to the pond start to bring transcendental omens and strange visitors. Thus begins a journey in which Alice wanders away from her idyllic home to find another world and to slowly connect the dots of her own world’s missing history. This post-apocalyptic adult hippie fairy tale is comic, poignant, thoughtful, and sparkling, a magical tapestry with many threads.

Author Bio:
Award-winning writer Gary Gautier has taught university writing and literature and given numerous radio interviews. He has had an Amazon #1 bestseller (90-minute reads free), a novel shortlisted for the Faulkner-Wisdom Prize, a novella selected for the Innovative Fiction Book Club, and a screen adaptation of his novel, Mr. Robert’s Bones, was selected to the second round (top 10%) at the Austin Film Festival. Gary has hitchhiked through 35 states and 16 countries and currently lives in the pueblos mágicos of central Mexico.

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