This is the index for books, blogs, etc.
Generated or processed texts
I have been experimenting with computer generated text for a long time. My first release was a story generator for home micros, which was also available on Prestel, the UK nationwide teletext system. This was an endless generator of new stories from my original short story ‘Cow Boils Head’ about Mad Cow Disease BSE. Link further down.
New generated stories
I’ve generated versions of classic (old) texts, and few other things, using an OpenAI GPT-2 text generator and editor Story Live (with Fabrice Bellard). Story Live was developed for my UAL research.
- The Distant Shout of the Great Storm (Tower of Doom Episode 1)
- Born Into Slavery
- Stanley Lying In His Lap
- Why Don’t Cannibals Eat Clowns?
- All The Rubbish of a Great City
- A Mountain of Pent Up Tears
- The Bloody Tale (Tower of Doom 2)
Old work: Geoff Davis Micro Arts MA4 Story Generator
Print Books
These are my physical books (dead trees) from a while ago. The Bubble World story is republished soon with a ‘remix’ done using text generation.
PEN International New Fiction (Quartet), edited by Peter Ackroyd. My short African Story. Lots of new writers, Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Clare Boylan, Meira Chand, Tom McCarthy, Iain Sinclair.
Nnn Goes Mobile, novel (Juma Print). Cyberpunk, mildly satirical. Distributed by Forbidden Planet. Came with a computer game on disk, coded by Robert Mettler, was on Arts Council UK Hub – this was released on a disk see below.
Death in the Bubble World
Death in the Bubble World is a short novel published by Em Foundation in the late 1990s, serialised in the books Em 1,2 and 3, edited by Karl Sinfield. A literary book series (like Granta) with a music cassette and later CD of new bands. Also included Hanif Kureishi and others. There was a Bubble World online animation by Paul Greenfield (see images below). To be republished with a ‘remix’ generated version 2021.
Easy Money Units EMUs.
In the above story I invented an electronic currency Easy Money Units EMUs. This ‘cryptocurrency’ (stored in ‘handbags’) used for universal basic income UBI (regular free amount of money for all, not means tested). An EMU/UBI system is the background economy of my new novel due 2021.
The Green Eco Building Book (Story Software). This came out of my time developing and building eco houses. Was converted into a large website BuildingDIY.com
Not Print
Calm as a Dead Clam multimedia fiction (Middlesex University). Literature in zooming interface (ZUI) software developed in my research Masters in Electronic Arts at Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University. See original notes on the zooming application.
This software was commercially released as Story Lite (and later Story Turbo) and Notes Story Board v2.2 (current).
More info is on my Geoff Davis author site