🎧 THE EDITORS Audiobook: Out Today!

+ Revisiting the Judge on the Moon, AI Poetry Wins, Gen Z’s Salary Dreams

🎧 The audiobook for my debut suspense novel, The Editors, is officially out today on Audible.

I’m happy to share that it’s narrated by two award-winning voice actors: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw (a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Tim Lounibos (known for narrating James Patterson’s books). Hearing them translate my story into this new medium felt so exciting and surreal. Tim masterfully builds suspense right from the prologue, and Mia is pitch-perfect as Morgan, the protagonist.

Tim told me, “I LOVED The Editors and hope I did it justice.” (I’d say he nailed it.) Mia added, “I absolutely thought about the internet and internet information differently after narrating this book.”

If you’re a fan of audiobooks, I’d love for you to check it out. You can grab The Editors with an Audible token here: https://amzn.to/4fShp8d

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Source Notes

• The science journal Nature published a disturbing report suggesting that readers are unable to reliably differentiate AI-generated poetry from human-written poems. But it gets worse: People rated AI-generated poems more highly than human-authored poems on qualities like rhythm and beauty. So far, I think

  Max Read
  has the best explanation: AI-generated art is “almost unavoidably kitsch–comforting, straightforward, accessible, flattering. And people love kitsch!”
  

• Issues in Science and Technology, a policy journal published by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine together with Arizona State University, just republished a short story of mine. “Little Assistance” is a tale about Eugene, the first judge on the moon, set in the near future. You can read both the original story and the reaction essay over at Issues.org.
  

• Wikipedia is under fire in India. The Delhi High Court has ordered the Wikimedia Foundation to remove an article about a court case and reveal information about the editors involved–a direct challenge to Wikipedia’s core principles (freedom of information, respecting user anonymity).

  The Wikipedian
  newsletter has a good breakdown of what’s at stake, including the risk of a potential ban in India.
  

• A recent survey shows Gen Z thinks they need a significantly higher salary to feel financially successful. Are older generations simply remembering an outdated number, or is Gen Z being brainwashed by affluent social media influencers? My guess is both.

Let me know if you check out the audiobook, or if you’d like me to cover these stories in detail in a future post.

Cheers,
Stephen