Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub (thenewstack.io)

An anonymous reader writes: Last month 188 entries turned up on GitHub in an event challenging programmers to write computer code to generate 50,000-word novels. "The 'novel' is defined however you want," wrote the organizer for National Novel-Generating Month. "It could be 50,000 repetitions of the word 'meow.' It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg. It doesn't matter, as long as it's 50k+ words." Novels were submitted as Issues on the event's GitHub repository, and this year saw intriguing titles like "The Hero with Arbitrarily-Many Faces," "THE CYBERWHALE – a cyberpunk version of Moby Dick," and "Terms and Conditions – a Legal Thriller."

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Next a movie

[ls671]

Next let's make a movie, it might beat some actual movies too.

Duh

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

If the only requirement is that it has to be "at least 50,000 words long", why not just submit a copy of the dictionary and call it done?

186

[Hognoxious]

186 of them were by APK.