15/01/2024
https://www.amazon.com/Four-Worlds-Counting-Fermi-Paradox-Singularity-ebook/dp/B00M9XYSGI
will be releasing my collection, Four World’s and Counting, which contains both my first Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine short story and Novella, as an audiobook narrated by AI.
AI is better, pretty consistently, than the standard text to voice feature accessibility feature in most devices.
Keep reading to find out what I’m going to do with this huge cash windfall.
My friend Amanda Rose Smith has said on her page, is an increasingly downmarket product, (hope I got that right) nothing most folks who aren’t rockstars can live on; think royalty free stock photo illustration catalogs, the work most impacted by AI, where images go for a buck and the artist/photographer gets 30 cents)
So here is what I plan on doing with my ill-gotten gains.
I’m going to donate the first 100 dollars I might possibly make to the politician who crafted this bill, adding to it another 100 of my own, doubling your contribution:
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H1873/BillHistory
An Act preventing a dystopian work environment.
I’ll tell him why he’s getting the money, for coming up with this.
After that first 100, I will use all following monies earned toward paying a voice actor where there is enough money to hire one.
So, whenI get to 1100 bucks, this collection will have enriched a human actor, and fought for their workplace protection.
I’ll keep the money after that, happy in the fact that I am part of the solution to AI disruption.
Of course, I’ll never reach either milestone.
I could never afford to pay a voice actor to do this title. The manner in which I am somehow defunding a voice actor is hard to articulate.
The voice work would cost me at least 1000 dollars. I hav made to date maybe 50 on this reprint ebook. (I made about 2k in the original magazine publications.)
Asimov’s gives away a few of my stories on-line as podcasts. Interestingly, nobody cares about this robbing voice actors of income.
So, please buy this if you want to listen to these works, knowing you are helping voice actors and in fact, every worker impacted by AI.
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The Fermi Paradox resolved, the challenges of parenting a vampire, a power struggle between father and daughter which will leave you gasping, and the Singularity in our lifetime. These four stories pulse with energy of a dream long delayed, as writer Jay O'Connell returns to fiction after a long ...
