Jack Calverley's Top 10 What If crime & SF stories, cover art and illustrations

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"The future comes at you non-stop"

TEN all new science fiction short stories conceived in the trail-blazing spirit of Dangerous Visions but written today from our present, for our tomorrows... in a world more advanced (or maybe not) than the one we face in 2024.

The future comes at you non-stop

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A Wave-Particle Theory of Conscious Awareness

To explain consciousness we must explain not just sensations but how a three-dimensional world is perceived without relying on an inner eye that can make sense of depth cues etc. Both problems are tackled here as well as aesthetics and morality.

Addendum - updated January 7 2025

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Tinnitus - murder mystery

It's August 1997. Four strangers are lured to three houses in Morricone Crescent at the heart of London's Notting Hill where four carefully staged deaths tie them together.

Who can work out what's going on?

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Death of a Bad Neighbour

15 authors. 15 stories. 15 crimes.

All-new stories from award-winning and best-selling crime and mystery writers, making for a great read!

"For those who find revenge sweet, this quirky collection will satisfy your predilections"
—Steve Steinbeck / The Jury Box in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2023 (****)

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The Man in My Head Has Lost His Mind

What makes us conscious? Does consciousness evolve and what purpose does it serve?
This text sets out the problem in clear and readable terms and proceeds logically to answer them.

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This Robot Brain Gets Life

Given a theory of what makes us conscious, and by designing a computer, or AI, that mimics consciousness as closely as it can, we can see how to audit its apparent thoughts.

or This book develops a computer/AI architecture that designs alignment in and designs hallucination out—or at least shows how it might be done, if only we take the time and trouble to do it.

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Authentic Art in the Age of AI

What can we do that an AI cannot?

Given a theory of what makes us conscious, we come to understand what we can do that is uniquely, and authentically, human.

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CB's Top 100 Writing Tips, Tricks, Techniques & Tools from the Advice Toolbox

Make words tell tales!

Based on over ten years of writers' workshops, this text takes 100 of the lessons learned and presents them as those infamous 'rules of writing' so often alluded to but so rarely spelled out...

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