Nebraska: a Novel (Great States Series)

'Nebraska: a Novel'By all accounts, Tim Withers was an average man. Born on the outskirts of Lincoln, married to a woman named Tina, he spent most of his life growing, chopping, and talking about corn. Then he saw something, something no one can explain, and now Nebraska has two cults and one nationwide headache. In Lincoln, the DOT worships Tim as a prophet; in Omaha, the Acorn prepares for revolution. FBI Special Agent Denise is sent in to keep things from exploding, but Colonel Jasper Lindell, running a classified Army project within the state borders, doesn’t take well to outside interference.About This ProjectThe ‘Great States Series’ explores the intersection of geography, narrative, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Each novel in the series investigates an evolving profile for geo-narrative-AI, through stories that emerge from archetypal states.Albert Stillman is a hybrid literary persona, a cyborg: Part human, part machine. He is also the collaborative voice of D. A. Tillman, an Associate Professor in Educational Technology, and ChatGPT-4.0, a large language model trained on the boundaries of language and learning. Together, they co-write science fiction through a recursive, conversational process that celebrates human creativity enhanced by AI, and not replaced by it.‘Nebraska: a Novel’ is their first co-authored work. It is neither an AI papermill product, nor a trick; rather, it is a frank attempt at using AI to support not just storytelling, but the process of learning scientific literacy itself, as both subject and tool of inquiry. This project aligns with ongoing academic research into AI-supported STEM pedagogy and the development of creative thinking skills for a constantly evolving American workforce. Read more