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James W. Hall

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James W. Hall is an Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author whose books have been translated into a dozen languages. He has written twenty-one novels, four books of poetry, two collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction. He also won a John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Fiction, presented by the JDM Bibliophile.

He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Utah. He was a professor of literature and creative writing at Florida International University for 40 years where he taught such writers as Vicky Hendr ...more

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Artificial Intelligence, Part 2

Back in May of 2018, I wrote a blog post on Artificial Intelligence after reading a fascinating article in The New Yorker. That blog post is here.

I’ve had an interest in AI for decades, and have watched with curiosity and a certain amount of dread as long ago prophesies about the future of AI have become more real.

In that blog post years ago, I mentioned a college dorm mate of mine, Alex, who was

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	When They Come for You (Harper McDaniel #1) 3.84 avg rating — 6,741 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under Cover of Daylight (Thorn, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 2,124 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mean High Tide (Thorn #3) 4.03 avg rating — 1,448 ratings — published 1994 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tropical Freeze (Thorn, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 1,388 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body Language 3.79 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 1990 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buzz Cut (Thorn, #5) 3.95 avg rating — 1,104 ratings — published 1996 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackwater Sound (Thorn, #7) 3.95 avg rating — 1,060 ratings — published 2002 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bones of Coral 3.88 avg rating — 982 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gone Wild (Thorn, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 773 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Sky at Night (Thorn, #6) 4.08 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“How his family was killed. Fakhri and his thugs raiding villages, burning, raping. Sunnis, Shi’a, Alawites, Christians, everybody killing everybody else. People say the Mafia’s bad. Mafia’s nothing next to those fucking religions.”
― James W. Hall, When They Come for You

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“And damn it, looking at her, her eyes steady and unfazed, he had to admit that what he'd said, dangling there now in the warm night air, it sounded ludicrous. Like one of those things you harbor in some quiet passage of your mind, some private bias you conceal, feasting on it so long that it solidifies, and eventually seems indisputable, rock-hard belief. But the first time you put air to it, give it voice, the whole mountainous construction sounds so preposterous, so embarrassingly dumb, it completely evaporates.”
― James W. Hall, Hard Aground

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“You don't have any morals, do you, Senator? You're worse than me, do any fucking thing to get what you want." Against his chest she said, "Some people are chosen, Ray. I'm one of those. I make morals, I don't follow them." "I like that. You make morals. That's good." She said, "Morals are for the masses, the little people, to keep them from too much independent thinking.”
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