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Writer: The Autodidacts (whiskeytit.com/product/the-autodida…) How I Killed The Universal Man (whiskeytit.com/product/how-i-killed…)

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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘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...
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Book Review: How I Killed The Universal Man by Thomas Kendall
Know thy self? Are you sure about that?
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘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...
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Book Review: How I Killed The Universal Man by Thomas Kendall
Know thy self? Are you sure about that?
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Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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
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David Leo Rice @raviddice.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
‘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
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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A clearing,
(only founder to go)
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 04/08/2026
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.
PM deal: Joe Koch's "Dead Boys Don't Cry" a cosmic-erotic slasher and queer anti-murder mystery told through interlocking stories pitches as "Cruising" meets Robbe-Grillet's "The Erasers" to Clash Books for publication June 2027.
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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@tkendall.bsky.social I just finished Universal Man, more structured thoughts soon but for now: what? huh? also: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Can’t wait to give this one a listen!
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
substack.com/@thomaskenda... #wip
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Celebrants of the future (extract2)
Tadeusz Kamiński (cousin)
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The death cult will lose.
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Celebrants of the Future (extract)
1. The Children. 2. The Fire. 3. Winter/Spring.
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Thomas Kendall (@thomaskendall)
Reposting as finishing this 2nd documentary section at the moment and hoping it still holds up?
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Correct; weird fiction is when you read weirdly
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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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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 27/05/2026
New WYRD_SIGNAL and SFULTRA within roughly a week of one another, folks podcasting is back.
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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'How I Killed the Universal Man' by Thomas Kendall
A Review
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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)
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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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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Well, everyone knows Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books are about climate change. What this essay presupposes is... maybe they aren't?
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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
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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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Ben Arzate @benarz13.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Over at my Substack, I take a look at How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall from @whiskeytit.com
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Some new writing I’m working through probably from the fourth novella in the book: thomaskendall.substack.com/p/so-what-if...
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So What If A Strange Kid Makes A Film about Love? (Official Exhibition Catalogue)
(Excerpt from 'A Clearing,')
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@hararereview.com thank you for the repost!
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
An honour to be read by one of my favourite book blogs
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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)…
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
HIKTUM
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Interesting review of how I killed the universal man up here youtu.be/LE4ABZPb9eA?...
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Weird & Wild Reads | Extreme, Surreal & Experimental Books | horror, scifi, litfic, noir
YouTube video by Chanel Chapters
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Tapping the sign in solidarity
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Interesting review of how I killed the universal man up here youtu.be/LE4ABZPb9eA?...
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Weird & Wild Reads | Extreme, Surreal & Experimental Books | horror, scifi, litfic, noir
YouTube video by Chanel Chapters
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
youtu.be/6NOIIZMCJtg?si… had a really enjoyable (for me at least) talk with @chriszeischegg here:
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Thomas Kendall & Christopher Zeischegg in Conversation
YouTube video by Christopher Zeischegg
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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The Bookworm's Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt biblioklept.org/2026/02/16/t...
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The Bookworm’s Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt
The great reader Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm, has passed away at 73. Silverblatt was a powerful influence on my development as an adult reader, and his approach to reading helped shape my…
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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thomas Kendall's How I Killed the Universal Man (Book acquired, 23 Jan. 2026) biblioklept.org/2026/01/29/t...
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Thomas Kendall’s How I Killed the Universal Man (Book acquired, 23 Jan. 2026)
I started Thomas Kendall’s second novel, How I Killed the Universal Man last night. Good stuff so far. Blurb from publisher Whisk(e)y Tit: John Lakerman, alternative current affairs journalis…
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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And then the first of our essays: the inestimable @megapolisomancy.bsky.social on (what else?) the weird. What is really striking about this piece is the way in which it advocates for critical reading as productive practice, for "weird reading as a way of thinking critically about the world."
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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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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
It was really awesome to work on this piece and learn about weird fiction from the best person to learn from about weird fiction!
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Excerpt Of Course Gods Talk To Themselves.
Joy walks past Bin-bags huddled like dropped fruit across the street.
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Excerpt Of Course Gods Talk To Themselves.
Joy walks past Bin-bags huddled like dropped fruit across the street.
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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Join me and, eventually, @ckunzelman.bsky.social for the new episode of SFULTRA, the antagonistic SF podcast most favoured by formless spawn who dwell in N'kai, 'neath the ruins of Yoth. After some general Lovecraft thoughts, focus settles on Alan Moore's Providence. www.patreon.com/posts/sfultr...
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SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations | SFULTRA
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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Many thanks to @sd-stewart.bsky.social for putting down some (very astute and kind) thoughts on 'The Veldt Institute' and to HFR for hosting!
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
If anyone is looking for something to recommend for any awards you might be associated with, "Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism" by Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deserves all the awards. Essential reading. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/r...
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Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism
Zachary Gillan I have been thinking, for obvious reasons, about living in a world of reactionary politics, and about the political valences of the irreal, and about ARB’s insistence upon the radica…
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Soldier's Heart (an oral history of the burnings)
(86,101)
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"We are watching a slasher movie...We are young and drunk and animated by indiscriminate libidos. We are laughing at the kills. We are scrolling on our phones. We are discreetly touching each other beneath our clothes." Today on ergot.: "Slasher" by Samantha Barrett www.ergot.press/authors/Sama...
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innovative + experimental horror
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Honoured to have’The Autodidacts’ included in this list by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social alongside Kevin Killian and other great contemporary writers
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Of Course Gods Talk To Themselves
Work In Progress: Of Course Gods Talk To Themselves
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Of Course Gods Talk To Themselves
Work In Progress: Of Course Gods Talk To Themselves
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Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thomas Kendall at Black Spring Books, Brooklyn reading from “How I Killed the Universal Man.” @whiskeytit.com
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I could beat up a million babies. Vincent almost laughs at the idea, sees himself rampaging through an American football field full of infants with absurdly large shoulder pads.
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
He wishes everything was tone and resonance and description a total conceptual impossibility. Like colours and shapes. Then he wouldn’t have to pretend reality was communicable
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Like the body was a restraint required to experience the materiality of space and space was like ‘oh fuck your body.’ Or like the body was to life what a bed sheet with cutout holes for eyes and animated by some mournful desire for attention was to the idea of death.
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TKENDALL @tkendall.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The rain arrives, reducing everything to shape and colour. The windscreen fogging like a cataract though the effects are far more malevolent than anything those dainty handed impressionists thought to so sentimentally beautify.
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