"The Devils of Truro" is an an unforgettable fictional story based on what may have happened in three unsolved murders hanging over the town of Truro Nova Scotia. The three main characters are twenty year olds Donald and Jane, naive and romantically involved, and John Cook, who is the father of one of the missing victims struggling in grief to find answers in his sons disappearance. Based on the authors experiences in the area during the time of the disappearance and murders, the books protagonists, Donald and Jane, stumble upon the truth of the crimes and the killers who are responsible. By using fictional but realistic characters drawn from a likeness and familiarity to local thugs investigated by police, the author crafts a realistic story of: romance, lust, promiscuity, mental illness and murder experienced through the characters travels through beautiful Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

​This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Shaw was born in the golden age of the automaton. His Bible on the Life Force and Creative Evolution, Back to Methuselah, was written when Karel and Josef Čapek coined the word “robot.” Shaw’s life ran in parallel with the rise of AI, and the big names in AI were his contemporaries. Moreover, empirical analyses of Shavian texts and images using AI uncovers possibilities for new interpretations, demonstrating how future renditions of his works may make use of these advanced technologies to broaden Shaw’s audience, readership and scholarship.