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Sheri Gu

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Hard Sci-Fi Author | Tech Investor. Uncompromising hard sci-fi where rigorous physical logic meets human consciousness. 📖 Novel: RIFT: Gestalt- www.amazon.com/dp/B0H93Q4BHJ 👤 About: sherigu.com/about ✉️ Newsletter: sherigu.com/newsletter

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 3m
Anne Carson just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature—for work that refuses to stay inside one form: poetry, prose, translation, criticism. Maybe the lesson for writers is simple: genre is a shelf, not a cage. What’s a book you love that refuses to fit neatly anywhere? #BookSky #WritingSky
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Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Carson won "for her ​bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms ‌for contemporary literature," the award-giving body said.
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 23h
AI detectors are becoming literary gatekeepers. Pangram says its use is seeing a “huge upswing” across the literary world. We may be normalizing a strange system: one black box deciding whether another black box helped write a book. Should detectors ever judge authorship? #BookSky #WritingSky #AI
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 06/10/2026
Something unexpected happened on my Facebook this week: a casual movie post passed 164K views, with readers joining from around the world. For a page I never treated as a creator platform, that feels surreal. No strategy. No CTA. Just an honest reaction. #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 05/10/2026
The Washington Post says “doesn’t read” is becoming a dating dealbreaker. 📚 I get it. Reading says something about curiosity, attention span, and how we see the world. Could you date someone who never reads—or worse, pretends to? 👀 #BookSky #ReadingCommunity #AmReading
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 02/10/2026
Smartphones are everywhere in real life, but fiction still seems unsure what to do with them. Texts, DMs and notifications are part of how relationships happen now. So why do they still feel awkward on the page? Do phones belong in fiction—or kill the story? #BookSky #WritingSky
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Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, …
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 01/10/2026
A prize-winning novel was dropped from the Goncourt list amid claims it was AI-written. The author denies it—and the accusation began with an AI detector. We now have machines judging whether humans wrote like machines. Should a detector ever be enough to judge authorship? #BookSky #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 30/09/2026
Another trip around the sun. 🎂 Getting older makes you realize how little you actually need to hoard. So today, the eBook of my sci-fi novel RIFT: Gestalt is free on Amazon for 24 hours. Consider it a digital birthday drink on me. 🥂 Enjoy! #BookSky #SciFi #WritingSky
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Rift: Gestalt
Amazon.com: Rift: Gestalt eBook : Gu, Sheri, Yang, Malcolm, Parker, Stephen: Kindle Store
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 29/09/2026
Fewer Americans read for pleasure every day. Yet bookstores are growing again, and book clubs are booming. Maybe people aren’t losing interest in books. Maybe they’re losing interest in reading alone. Has reading become more social for you? #BookSky #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 28/09/2026
Self-publishing was once dismissed as vanity. Now PE firms have paid over $400M for Podium, a publisher built on audiobook rights from indie authors. Validation? Yes. But when Wall Street discovers indie creativity, who captures the value—the writer or the platform? #BookSky #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 25/09/2026
We build massive tech to conquer distance. But 1,300 years ago, Chinese poet Zhang Jiuling did it with just the moon: “A bright moon rises over the sea; at the ends of the earth, we share this moment.” What tradition in your culture makes faraway people feel near? 🌕 #BookSky #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 24/09/2026
Today is the Autumn Equinox. 3 + 3² + 3² × 3² — Three gives rise to the myriad things; life unfolds without end.
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 22/09/2026
A strange detail in the Paramount–Warner settlement caught my eye: The merged studio must release at least 30 theatrical films a year. But can creative diversity really be protected by requiring more output? 30 movies ≠ 30 different stories. 🎬 #FilmSky ✍️ #WritingSky
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Key terms of Paramount's Warner Bros Discovery settlement with US states
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery have reached a settlement with California and 11 other US states to clear the way for their merger, according to a joint motion filed by the companies on M...
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 21/09/2026
China pausing humanoid robot IPOs is a reality check the industry needs: Building the body is supply chain. Building the brain is math. You cannot IPO your way past negative warehouse ROI. #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #TechInvesting
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 16/09/2026
Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party is out today, set in 2031. Yesterday I wrote that 2033 suddenly feels close. Now another major speculative writer is placing the future just five years away. The “future” in fiction keeps shrinking. Is reality simply catching up? #BookSky #SciFi #SpecFic
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 15/09/2026
Yesterday’s Nature Neuroscience paper: one brain implant decodes speech and gestures simultaneously. RIFT: Gestalt is set in 2033, where Li Tao’s team uses non-invasive neurotechnology to treat the mind. We wrote it as science fiction. Seven years feels very short. #SciFi #TechSky #BookSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 14/09/2026
Star Trek turned 60 this week. Its boldest prediction was never warp drive. It was that humanity could actually become better. Has optimism become the most radical form of science fiction? #BookSky #SciFi #StarTrek
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 11/09/2026
A documentary at Venice used AI to recreate childhood moments that were never filmed. That’s the part of AI storytelling I find genuinely interesting. Where does reconstruction end—and authorship begin? 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 10/09/2026
While co-authoring RIFT: Gestalt with an AI algorithm scientist, the hard part wasn't advanced tech—it was resisting the Hollywood cliché of the “malicious, awakened machine.” Real collapse needs no malice—only causal runaway and mechanism failure. #BookSky #SciFi #WritingCommunity #SystemDesign
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 09/09/2026
Meta’s AI can now send emails and make purchases. The real risk isn’t machine malice—it’s execution speed. As agents act faster and ask for fewer approvals, the human intervention window keeps shrinking. At what point does convenience become a surrender of control? #BookSky #SciFi #AI #AIAgents
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 08/09/2026
Everyone is focused on the tech in the Anthropic settlement. I’m more interested in the publishing fight underneath it: who owns the economic rights to a book when “reading” becomes “training”? Authors are now disputing publishers—and even agents. #BookSky #WritingSky #AI
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day 🎈—to the carbon-based workforce, for now. Lee Chang-dong’s new film Possible Love got me thinking: if AI lets us produce more with far less human labor, what exactly will this holiday celebrate—the output, the work, or the human being? 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI #LaborDay
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 04/09/2026
Two people were pulled alive from a Nepal hydropower tunnel nine days after the flood. What stayed with me: 500+ engineers were sharing tunnel maps and real-time guidance through a WhatsApp group.👍 Is this what collective intelligence looks like when it works? #TechSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 03/09/2026
The DOJ sided with OpenAI on fair use. I keep wondering where this leaves creators. If copyrighted work can be used to train commercial AI without consent, does fair use strike the right balance—or should creators have disclosure, compensation, or an enforceable opt-out? #TechSky #BookSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 02/09/2026
Adding “Reddit” to a search once felt like a shortcut. Now it feels like an escape route. As AI slop spreads, messy human experience feels valuable again. That tension runs through RIFT: Gestalt too: what looks like noise may be part of being human. What do you trust online now? #AI #BookSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 01/09/2026
Hard sci-fi isn’t prediction. It changes one condition, preserves the constraints—and follows the consequences. While writing RIFT: Gestalt, my recurring question was: What would have to be true for this idea to work—and what else would become true if it did? The breakdown below #BookSky #SciFi
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 31/08/2026
NASA just launched Roman—built on hardware meant for spy satellites. Instead of watching human conflicts, it will map dark matter and hunt exoplanets, surveying the sky up to 1,000x faster than Hubble. Technology once pointed down, finally looking outward. #Space #Science #NASA
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 29/08/2026
This week’s Himalayan disaster brought me back to how RIFT was built. The rule: start with real science, find the unresolved edge, then extrapolate one step forward. When the constraints are real, the fiction feels inevitable. 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #HardSciFi 🚀 #SciFi
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 28/08/2026
As rescue efforts continue after this week’s Himalayan floods, I went back to one question in RIFT: Why Dingri? The Rift disturbance came first. Then I researched which real Himalayan location could plausibly experience a mudslide. That research led me to Dingri. 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #HardSciFi 🚀 #SciFi
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 27/08/2026
My thoughts are with everyone affected by the catastrophic floods and mudslides along the Nepal–Tibet border. After the news, a RIFT reader texted: “Are you an oracle?” 😅 For a moment, 2033 felt uncomfortably close. Not prophecy—research, then extrapolation. 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #HardSciFi 🚀 #SciFi
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 26/08/2026
The Grammys, Oscars, and now Australia’s ARIA charts are all moving toward the same broad principle: AI can assist, but human authorship still has to matter. As a writer and reader, that makes sense to me. Where would you draw that line for books? 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #AI ✍️ #WritingSky
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 25/08/2026
AI microdramas aren’t just cheaper production. When you test 10 versions instead of betting on one, storytelling behaves like search. Does that make creativity freer—or just optimized? The economics behind it 👇 sherigu.com/essays/what-... 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI ✍️ #WritingSky #VentureCapital
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 24/08/2026
On RIFT: Gestalt’s copyright page, I wrote: “No AI Training. No AI Adaptation.” At the time, it felt precautionary. Now AI microdramas are turning that question into a business model. What does ownership mean when adaptation can be generated on demand? 📚 #BookSky 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 21/08/2026
A system doesn’t need to control your choices if it can make every alternative look irrational. If the network is always right, when does advice become authority? That’s one of the rabbit holes inside RIFT: Gestalt. #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 20/08/2026
The debate is stuck on AI text, but the real shift is structural: the collapse of the middle layer and the rise of the Sovereign Creator. How AI is rewiring the publishing stack👇 #AI #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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The Great Unbundling: How AI Is Rewiring the Publishing Value Chain
Beyond copyright battles and generated text: The collision of Spam Economics, Big Publishers, and the Sovereign Creator. This week, after nearly three years of drafting, structural editing, and produc...
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 19/08/2026
Most AI dystopias get it wrong. The danger isn't rogue machines rebelling against us. It's humans surrendering autonomy because the system's answers are provably better. Would you resist a system that was consistently right? KU readers can start RIFT: Gestalt now. #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 18/08/2026
A strange thing happens on publication day: the world you controlled completely as a writer suddenly becomes something readers will interpret without you. I think that’s exactly how it should be. RIFT: Gestalt is out today. Now I get to find out what you see in it. #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 17/08/2026
The hardest part of finishing a book isn’t the writing, the editing, or the endless metadata checks. It’s the quiet realization that the world you spent three years building is about to stop being yours alone. RIFT: Gestalt goes live tomorrow. Deep breath. #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 17/08/2026
No system can live the physical experience for you. In a world obsessed with frictionless efficiency, the body keeps us honest. 2 days until RIFT: Gestalt (Aug 18). #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 15/08/2026
What counts as a human life worth preserving when a system defines efficiency? That question sits at the heart of RIFT: Gestalt, out in 3 days — Aug 18. What if the very things that make us inefficient are also what keep us human? #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 14/08/2026
If technology could eliminate crime, poverty, and suffering at the cost of personal autonomy, is that progress? This core dilemma drives RIFT: Gestalt. How much freedom would you surrender for absolute stability? #HardSciFi #BookSky #SciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 13/08/2026
Two days of posting in, I realized I never properly introduced myself. A little context on who’s behind these posts: • Hard sci-fi author of RIFT: Gestalt • CS + MBA | Tech asset holder • Austin ⇄ Chengdu (timezone agnostic) (More in thread 👇) #BookSky #SciFi #HardSciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 12/08/2026
When a civilization undergoes a massive technological leap, what usually breaks first: its economic system, its ethics, or its language? Curious which one sci-fi readers and writers here would bet on—and why. #BookSky #SciFi #Worldbuilding 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 11/08/2026
If AI could reproduce the neural state of pain, would it actually suffer—or merely process the data? This question kept returning while I wrote RIFT: Gestalt. Where would you draw the line? #HardSciFi #BookSky #SciFi 🪐📚
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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 11/08/2026
Hello, Bluesky 👋 Setting up shop as I get ready to launch my hard sci-fi novel, RIFT: Gestalt (out Aug 18). I come from tech, investing, and sci-fi. Looking forward to finding those corners here. What’s one book or thought experiment that changed how you see the future?
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