Max Barry
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Max Barry
@MaxBarry
I write things.
Melbourne, Australia Katılım Mart 2009
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@BenGalley I choose US English for an international audience because non-US people think, "Oh, it's US English," whereas if I use UK English, a lot of Americans just think I'm an idiot who can't spell.
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I've received a delightful complaint from a reader detailing all the errors in one of my books. Every single error with page numbers and corrections.
Problem is, every single one of the errors they've flagged isn't an error.
It's merely an instance of UK English.
Every one.
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@PissedOffLawyer Aw thanks, that's really great to hear. Thanks for letting me know.
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hey @MaxBarry, i'm a big fan of your work. i spent a few yrs reading you, palahniuk, & a few other novelists non-stop, but have only read non-fiction for the past ~8 yrs.
i just finished "providence" --my first novel in yrs-- & just wanted to say thank you. outstanding work.
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"You liked Madison May, here are 44 more books about the exact same thing." thenerddaily.com/45-multiverse-…
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Oh, AI, I just can't keep away from you maxbarry.com/2023/07/17/new…
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@TheaLanden @MaxBarry I’m a big fan of Max Barry, and (wink, wink) I would love to collaborate with him someday.
Actually, Barry is (harder wink) one of the Big Five writers I tried to enlist for my sci-fi anthology from last year.
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Using a gif/pic, tell me which game first got you into gaming?
The first, the original, the best
Indie Book Spotlight@BookSpotlight
Using a gif/pic, tell me which game first got you into gaming? I'm not much of a gamer, but probably:
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Max Barry retweetledi
Exciting life update: I'm finally going full-time freelance for book cover design 😱 Publishers and art directors, if you like what you see, reach out to me for an upcoming project. Feel free to share❤️And see more work here: mattmakesbooks.com
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This is a @MaxBarry appreciation post, he's written most of my favorite books this century. A modern master. (Not sure if he'd love or hate that we call him Maximum Barry in our house.)
Chris Whitehead@chris_whitehead
I'm pretty sure Twitter has crossed over and become a Dead Format (see also: betamax, laser disc, 8 tracks etc) so before I nuke my account for good, let's do a series of appreciation posts?
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Viral influencer-led "hydration drink" people are reselling for crazy prices because you can't buy it anywhere. What an idea! citizen.co.za/lifestyle/food…
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New blog, in which I find another reason to put marketing people in jail. maxbarry.com/2023/04/05/new…
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@MaxBarry Hope you are doing well my man. Any new books on the horizon?
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AI will definitely write a lot of guilty pleasure books in the near future. But also good authors will become AI curators, guiding AI through the process of building the book, accepting and rejecting scenes & ideas. Like you can already do with image generation inpainting.
Lev Grossman@leverus
Even if an AI can write a book in my style that's only 80% as good as mine, it will do it 250,000x faster and for free or a tiny fraction of the price. I have to think the market will go for that trade-off
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Bravo @danscho1 for inserting me into the opening paragraph of a Telegraph article on the state of English rugby. More journalists should do that. telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…
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@CarolineYoachim The 22 Murders of Madison May by @MaxBarry
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My blog after this one will be, "Why I'm an Optimist" maxbarry.com/2023/03/14/new…
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I'm judging this microfiction competition where you can win $500 for 200 words. And you already know what I like. So you have an edge. brimbank.vic.gov.au/events/microfi…
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Max Barry retweetledi
One of the clearest and most inspiring critiques of chatbots comes from science fiction writer #TedChiang, whose instant-classsic critique was called "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web":
newyorker.com/tech/annals-of… 34/
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@cjbell_ @davydog187 @wojtekmach I need to add another, but it isn't audio. Providence - @MaxBarry. The ending was perfect. My only complaint about Mr. Barry's writing is that there isn't more of it.
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What's your reading list? For non-technical, I've got
1. Snow Crash
2. Anything you want (suggested by @adamwathan)
3. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
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