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Winter games
When Tori's parents allow her to invite five Lakeview girls on a California ski trip over President's Weekend, she agonizes over how to tell the others they cannot come, then learns that the camp reunion is scheduled for the same weekend.
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Girl online : going solo
Sixteen-year-old blogger Penny takes the advice of her online commenters in the wake of her break up with Noah, concentrating on her best friend Elliot who needs her now more than ever, working on her photography project for her internship, and making new friends, including a student actress with stage fright and a Scottish photographer who might drive away the ghost of Noah.
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(Im)personation and (Im)morality: Investigating the Pramāṇa of Artificial Integrity in Naomi Kritzer's \Cat Pictures Please\
The abiding discussions around the ever-strengthening capabilities of artificial intelligence have reinforced speculations about their general nature and outlook towards human beings in the event of their total domination: a common theme in science-fiction literature. \"Cat Pictures Please,\" a 2015 short format science fiction, has received multiple awards in its category for its audacious and imaginative attempt at the mapping of the mental and moral topographies of artificial intelligence, and AI models' active and incessant engagement with human beings in their daily lives. According to the bio note on Kritzer's blog, she is a science fiction and fantasy writer living in St. Paul, Minnesota who has been writing for twenty years. Working on the preservation of human rights and its future in the hands of AI with a special focus on the utilization of such emerging technologies in social governance, Edward Santow observes that \"(AI's) taking on the labeller's (\"creators\" for our purpose) subjectivity means taking on their personal tastes, culturally-informed preferences, conscious and unconscious biases, and any number of other non-rational factors.
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Falling in like
The girls from Camp Lakeview keep in touch through a blog as Priya deals with a science fair project, Alyssa fights for the chance to be featured in an arts magazine, Val vies for a spot in a dance recital, and a Tori attracts the attention of the son of one of her father's clients.
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Comma Distribution in Czech Texts: Variation by Genre and Author, and Error Analysis
This article investigates the distribution and typology of commas in Czech texts, combining genre-differentiated samples with an annotated error corpus to offer a comprehensive view of punctuation usage and misuse. Building on previous work, we expand the analysis from a small newspaper sample to a broader set of texts, encompassing fiction, blogs, translations, and school dictations. Using a consistent typology of comma usage, we classify 1,000 manually selected instances and identify trends in different textual genres. Furthermore, we examine over 1,000 missing comma errors and more than 200 redundant ones from the self-built error corpus. The results reveal genre-dependent tendencies in comma types, especially in the use of commas preceding connectives and within asyndetic structures. The study offers insights for improving automatic comma insertion systems and deepens our understanding of punctuation norms and deviations in Czech.
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Scarlett Epstein hates it here
\"When Scarlett's beloved TV show is canceled and her longtime crush, Gideon, is sucked out of her orbit and into the dark and distant world of Populars, Scarlett turns to the fanfic message boards for comfort. This time, though, her subjects aren't the swoon-worthy stars of her fave series -- they're the real-life kids from her high school.\"--Dust jacket flap.
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African Futurism: Speculative Fictions and “Rewriting the Great Book”
This paper examines a number of African-authored narratives (novels and film) in the light of recent thinking about futurism and the role of speculative fiction as a means of envisioning the future. Uppinder Mehan, coeditor of the first ever anthology of “postcolonial science fiction and fantasy,” So Long Been Dreaming, notes that postcolonial writing has rarely “pondered that strange land of the future” and warns, “If we do not imagine our futures, postcolonial peoples risk being condemned to be spoken about and for again” (Mehan 270). Kodwo Eshun, in a seminal essay, expands on this to argue that, while the “practice of countermemory as . . . an ethical commitment to history, the dead and the forgotten” has traditionally relegated futurism to the sidelines of black creativity, this has been progressively challenged by “contemporary African artists . . . [for whom] understanding and intervening in the production and distribution of this dimension constitutes a chronopolitical act” (292). The paper proposes that this chronopolitical act (what in literature we now call speculative fiction) has its roots in African modes of storytelling that draw on myth, orality, and indigenous belief systems that lend themselves to the invention of personal mythologies, the rewriting of history in the light of future realities, and the use of extrarealist or magical phenomena as part of the everyday. Since these elements characterize many novels not thought of as speculative, this suggests that futurism has been a strain in African writing from its inception. The turn from mythic revisioning to speculative fiction as a distinct and recognizable genre in the 21st century has notably been embraced by women writers such as Nnedi Okorafor and Lauren Beukes, in whose work gender/femininity is a determinant in the projection of imagined futures. The paper examines how speculative narrative strategies in a range of texts are brought to bear on specific historical situations on the African continent (those characterized, for example, by genocide, civil war, cross-continental migration, urban dereliction, xenophobia, violence, and the occult) and the potential futures to which they point. The paper argues, therefore, that such narratives, rather than being relegated to the category of fantasy, deserve attention as key indicators of futuristic thinking.
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