I'm pleased to announce the release of Parallax by T.D. Walker, in both print and e-book editions, the ninety-eighth volume in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series. Parallax tells an intriguing story in a mix of poetry and prose. (Perhaps I ought to note here that although the story relates the struggle of a programmer with an AI, the author did not employ AI in its composition.) The book is available now at www.aqueductpress.com.
You can read a sample from the book here: https://www.aqueductpress.com/books/samples/978-1-61976-282-4.pdf
An ancient stone monument is toppled by protestors on Earth. A photographer famous for his images of the monument suffers a stroke. His programmer daughter seeks to generate a memorial to him by feeding his photographs to the AI she maintains. When the AI is fed art, music, and literature from the women who affected his work and, in turn, those who influenced theirs, the memorials begin to take unexpected forms. The poems in Parallax ask us to consider how memorials made by AI bring us closer to and farther from those they are intended to honor.
Advance Praise
“Parallax is an intriguing collection, centered on grief and grieving as a particularly and peculiarly human act. It rewards careful and patient reading as it spins its lens from human to machine and back again, revealing the gaps, fractures, and impossible distances between us and even the most advanced of artificial intelligences.” —Deborah Davitt, author of Xenoforming
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