Scarcely Human
Substacknewsletter · by Christopher Sorrentino
Notes on creating fiction. Notes on creating fiction with large language models. Notes on creating fiction in a postliterate age. Notes on creating fiction in "the present publishing environment." Fiction itself. Also on other topics.
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- Observed frequency
- Weekly
- From 6 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Nov 4, 2026
- 10 days ago
- Likely audience
- Speculative fiction writers
- Inferred from post content
Scarcely Human is a Substack newsletter by Christopher Sorrentino covering LLM usage in creative writing, Speculative fiction and Generative AI workflows. NewsletterFIT indexed 6 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Nov 4, 2026.
Topics
- LLM usage in creative writing
- Speculative fiction
- Generative AI workflows
- Dystopian literature
- American history in fiction
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