TKENDALL
@tkendall.bsky.social
Writer: The Autodidacts (https://whiskeytit.com/product/the-autodidacts/) How I Killed The Universal Man (https://whiskeytit.com/product/how-i-killed-the-universal-man/)
‘Spinoza is understandably dissatisfied with the kind of solomonic carve up of the cosmic baby’ - This might be my favourite sentence of all time.
Thomas Kendall (@thomaskendall)
‘Spinoza is understandably dissatisfied with the kind of solomonic carve up of the cosmic baby’ - This might be my favourite sentence of all time.
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Thanks so much to @deathsentencepod.bsky.social and @tallesteden.bsky.social. Such a fucking honour really to have people engage with the book like this, can’t believe it really.
Death Sentence@deathsentencepod.bsky.social · 2w agoWe return from unreality to tackle, fight, love, and hate How I Killed the Universal Man by @tkendall.bsky.social. It's an excellent and infuriating cyberpunk/noir book about mind-altering drugs, the violence of infrastructure, and how philosophy sucks, actually. soundcloud.com/death-senten...
‘How I Killed The Universal Man reads like Brunner’s Stand on Zanibar, PKD’s A Scanner Darkly and William Gibson’s Millennium Trilogy came together as a literary polycule and birthed a child.’ greasygoat.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Book Review: How I Killed The Universal Man by Thomas Kendall
Know thy self? Are you sure about that?
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‘How I Killed The Universal Man reads like Brunner’s Stand on Zanibar, PKD’s A Scanner Darkly and William Gibson’s Millennium Trilogy came together as a literary polycule and birthed a child.’ greasygoat.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Book Review: How I Killed The Universal Man by Thomas Kendall
Know thy self? Are you sure about that?
greasygoat.substack.com
Finally got the chance to meet my Children of the New Flesh co-editor, David Leo Rice. What a guy, and what a lovely evening. @1111press.bsky.social
Always Crashing@alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2mo ago"He enters this terrain so fully that he requires no avatar to inhabit it. He and it are one. I am my son, he thinks." From David Leo Rice (@raviddice.bsky.social), the spiraling, absorbing, redoubling "Jakob as Father" New today at Always Crashing:
‘The hope is that the new uselessness might allow us to partially divest from the stable , finite, and knowable realm of images, and come to rest on the unstable, infinite, and unknowable ground of reality’ - Outstanding essay here
Gideon Jacobs@gideonjacobs.bsky.social · 4mo agoAll Images Are Quite Useless. New essay for Spike--> spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess...
In case you missed it, here's the PW announcement! We're already finalizing the ARC & cover. I am excited. I am ready to make you suffer.
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe latest @locusmag.bsky.social — which you should subscribe to — has interesting book deal news, including forthcoming titles from @elliottgish.bsky.social @zinrock.bsky.social and @horrorsong.blog
@tkendall.bsky.social I just finished Universal Man, more structured thoughts soon but for now: what? huh? also: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Correct; weird fiction is when you read weirdly
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
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TheGrand547@thegrand547.bsky.social · 5mo agoTrying to bait people by claiming random authors as weird fiction. “Pynchon is weird fiction” “jd Salinger is weird fiction” “Edith Wharton is weird fiction” “Collette is weird fiction” no one can stop me
New WYRD_SIGNAL and SFULTRA within roughly a week of one another, folks podcasting is back.
Rico Charges@nochorus.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew SFULTRA. I talk about the latest Antoine Volodine translation The Monroe Girls and discuss whether the many things that make him great may also make him a hard sell, even to uh...'brodernists'(???). Free to all on this link or in all the usual pod places soon. www.patreon.com/posts/159229...
ICYMI: I had sheafs of notes and thoughts left after this conversation so I turned them into an essay performing a paranoid reading of the Southern Reach and Area X as metaphors for the struggle for a border(less) definition of the genre of weird fiction (as I am wont to do)
Haunted By Genre: A Paranoid Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach
Zachary Gillan Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation builds to a question: “What does the border look like?” In a series full of striking scenery and uncanny doppelgangers, it’s a reminder that some of it…
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A Meal of Thorns@mealofthorns.bsky.social · last yr.It's finally upon us—although perhaps we shouldn't be so certain about when and where it exists: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social is on the pod to talk about Jeff VanderMeer's AUTHORITY! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/08/a...
Well, everyone knows Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books are about climate change. What this essay presupposes is... maybe they aren't?
Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 6mo agoNew featured essay! "Haunted By Genre: A Paranoid Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach" by @megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Includes a link to a great review of Thomas Kendall’s How I Killed The Universal Man, which I also reviewed (and loved) a few years ago. Excellent book for our absurd and unsettling post-cyberpunk(?) age
All That is Solid Melts into Air: a review of How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Press
Some leftists avoid the term “late capitalism” because of its implication that we’re nearing capitalism’s end, running against our pessimism of the intellect, even as it thrills the optimism of the wi...
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Ancillary Review of Books@ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 6mo agoSome "reviews", some "takes", a reminder to check out @gifcon.bsky.social, and yet another plug-slash-plea to share ARB's super-cool fundraiser: it's the Wow! Signal for May!
Over at my Substack, I take a look at How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall from @whiskeytit.com
Some new writing I’m working through probably from the fourth novella in the book: thomaskendall.substack.com/p/so-what-if...
So What If A Strange Kid Makes A Film about Love? (Official Exhibition Catalogue)
(Excerpt from 'A Clearing,')
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Anyway, HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN by @tkendall.bsky.social — if I compare these early pages to NEUROMANCER, it is (1) to emphasize that the prose has Gibson’s rightfully celebrated quality of fluid confidence (every page has at least one paragraph that is just as fucking cool as peak Gibson)…
Interesting review of how I killed the universal man up here youtu.be/LE4ABZPb9eA?...
Weird & Wild Reads | Extreme, Surreal & Experimental Books | horror, scifi, litfic, noir
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Interesting review of how I killed the universal man up here youtu.be/LE4ABZPb9eA?...
Weird & Wild Reads | Extreme, Surreal & Experimental Books | horror, scifi, litfic, noir
YouTube video by Chanel Chapters
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