Earthlings: Special AI Edition

by Phil Growick

There are, approximately, eight billion people on Earth.
Some belong someplace else.
Special AI Edition - with all 71 EARTHLINGS in glorious colour with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)!

216 pages, Paperback

Published December 7, 2023

Reviews

[David Baldwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you like Jazz? Phil Growick has pulled off the ultimate solo gig where he riffs language like Bird worked his horn. We know Growick from his excellent mantle carrying for Doyle by bringing Sherlock Holmes into a more modern context. But with Earthlings you get the sense Growick is just saying, “Watch what I can do with words.” Or maybe, “listen” is more appropriate because if you read some of these stories aloud they’re even funnier. Where else are you going to find sentences like: “Shvesteh Esther began her life in the tiny Polish shtetel of Oy Gevalt, a tad north of the tiny Polish shtetel of Shweig Shayne.” found in a chapter called “Shvesteh Esther” about a woman named Sister living in a Jewish village placed there by a Pope (Loquacious XII, if you must know) to be part of a Sisterhood but she, in reality, turns out to be a Druid. Or Druish, as Growick points out. Earthlings is chock full of this fun with AI illustrations to boot that ratchet the absurdity up to at least Kafka. Highly recommended fun. - David Baldwin, Author, The Belief Economy.