Welcome to the Robert Wack Author web site, very much a work in progress. As I continue building this out, I’ll update you on upcoming publications, some thoughts on the writing life, and other interesting nuggets about science fiction, history, culture and why we do this (reading, writing, imagining).

A quick note about AI: I don’t use it for anything to do with my writing, here or in my published work, and I never will. I will use it, as I have below, to generate quick, colorful graphics for these posts. We’ll see how that goes.

Amendment: alert readers pointed out that ANY search these days utilizes AI, and I do extensive research, so, yes, I use AI for my research. And the graphic artists I work with for cover art may be using AI for some aspects of their creative process, so there’s that.

My hard line is about using AI as part of the creative act, mining it for ideas about phrasing or plotting, or using it for copy editing. That seems to me to be the bright line of compromising “I wrote this”. Plus, I don’t want my stuff feeding them. I know that’s probably a futile act of defiance, but I refuse to submit! (channeling John Connor….)