I bought this book in 2018 by mistake — I thought it was a new book by Mercedes Lackey, but instead it’s a collection of short short stories by people I’ve never heard of. I guess it’s what kids these days call “fic”, i. e., fan fiction?
So I never attempted to read it… until now.
And it’s not as bad as I assumed it would be! But, on the other hand, it’s not very interesting, either, so I ditched the book after reading three of these.
There’s also a 15 page story by Lackey herself at the end, and I read that one, too — it was much better than the rest. There’s a reason why Mercedes Lackey is an industry — she writes very charming books. I think I’ve read over 50 of them, but it’s been a minute since the last one. Let’s see… has she published anything after 2017? I’ll ask Perplexity via Emacs!
Huh… What if I ask OpenAI instead?
Hey! There’s some overlap! The lists have two books in common! Who says LLMs are useless!
Well, Wikipedia seems to agree with OpenAI a bit…
Oh, there’s the Perplexity books? Man, she’s been productive.
And they only had one of these three.
Anyway, lessons to be learned from this is that, well, LLMs still suck.
Pathways (2017) edited by Mercedes Lackey (buy new, buy used, 4.1 on Goodreads)