Episode 39: Tech-assisted Novels with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

On this episode, author, data scientist, and journalist Yudhanjaya Wijeratne talks to Jill Walker Rettberg about his relationship with AI in producing his Salvage Crew Trilogy of novels. 

References

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne: “The Machine as Provocateur” Keynote at CDN Summer School 2025 -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ZdWvzk2JE

StarMap – galaxy generator code on GitHub:https://github.com/yudhanjaya/Starmap 

Find out more at Yudhanjaya.com 

Photo by Dirk Skiba Fotografie.

Iain M. Banks (1987) The Culture Series

Google Creative Lab (2012) 100,000 Stars https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/ 

Atticus Poetry (2017) Love Her Wild https://www.atticuspoetry.com/

 Stephen King (1982) The Gunslinger 

Rupi Kaur (2014) Milk and Honey 

Garry Kasparov (1998) Advanced Chess (Centaur Chess)https://kasparovchess.com/ 

Stanisław Lem (1961) Solaris, https://solarislotus.com/ 

OpenAI (2022) Whisper (Speech Recognition Model) https://github.com/openai/whisper 

Keynote (Yudhanjaya Wijeratne), https://www.youtube.com/@CenterforDigitalNarrative 

David Stark (2018) Planet Generator https://watabou.itch.io/planet-generator 

ConcernedApe (2016) Stardew Valley https://www.stardewvalley.net/ 

Tynan Sylvester (2013) RimWorld https://rimworldgame.com/ 

Tynan Sylvester (2013) The Simulation Dreamhttps://tynansylvester.com/2013/06/the-simulation-dream/

Peter Watts (2006) Blindsight