Thomas Kendall's Blog
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February 29, 2024
How I Killed The Universal Man: Review
Fantastic review of How I Killed The Universal man up at Exacting Clam: https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/n...
December 28, 2023
How I Killed The Universal Man (blurbs)
Lovely words from Joe Koch, Charlene Elsby, Lindsay Lerman and David Leo Rice.
"Lucid, wry, painfully contemporary and philosophically uncompromising, Thomas Kendall's How I Killed The Universal Man out-matrixes The Matrix. It's a modern technological noir nightmare--or perhaps, for some, a paradise. Kendall takes us through a multiplicity of altered states and identities with wonderfully controlled prose that builds in complexity as the story's paranoid secrets are both revealed and obscured, pushing reality past the breaking point until it fissures, deforms, and reassembles.Through these temporal cracks, we may spy beauty."
-Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Invaginies
Thomas Kendall’s sentences form beautiful crystals that render the soul transparent. In How I Killed the Universal Man, (somewhat science fiction, somewhat philosophical thought experiment) Kendall imbues the rational anticipation of the near future with searing insight into what it means to be human. Mind-altering drugs, technological human enhancement, and a really cool video game lay the groundwork for explorations into consciousness that expand our empathy toward our future selves.
– Charlene Elsby, author of Bedlam and The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty
A moving, penetrating, dystopic meditation on autonomy, identity, and meaning. A warning from the future, but also from now. Daring and prescient.
– Lindsay Lerman, author of I'm From Nowhere and What Are You
Febrile, menacing, and alive with portent, with a grotesque and hyper-dense image repertoire that fuses Bosch and Cronenberg, How I Killed the Universal Man takes us deep into a near future where mind, body, and environment have merged in ways we can, from today's vantage, just barely comprehend. Kendall's nuanced and humane prose never abandons us on this journey to the end of consciousness, though neither does it offer any false consolation. Picking up where A Scanner Darkly, Strange Days, and Children of Men left off, this epic new masterwork immediately assumes its place in the cyberpunk canon.
– David Leo Rice, author of The New House and The Pornme Trilogy
"Lucid, wry, painfully contemporary and philosophically uncompromising, Thomas Kendall's How I Killed The Universal Man out-matrixes The Matrix. It's a modern technological noir nightmare--or perhaps, for some, a paradise. Kendall takes us through a multiplicity of altered states and identities with wonderfully controlled prose that builds in complexity as the story's paranoid secrets are both revealed and obscured, pushing reality past the breaking point until it fissures, deforms, and reassembles.Through these temporal cracks, we may spy beauty."
-Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Invaginies
Thomas Kendall’s sentences form beautiful crystals that render the soul transparent. In How I Killed the Universal Man, (somewhat science fiction, somewhat philosophical thought experiment) Kendall imbues the rational anticipation of the near future with searing insight into what it means to be human. Mind-altering drugs, technological human enhancement, and a really cool video game lay the groundwork for explorations into consciousness that expand our empathy toward our future selves.
– Charlene Elsby, author of Bedlam and The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty
A moving, penetrating, dystopic meditation on autonomy, identity, and meaning. A warning from the future, but also from now. Daring and prescient.
– Lindsay Lerman, author of I'm From Nowhere and What Are You
Febrile, menacing, and alive with portent, with a grotesque and hyper-dense image repertoire that fuses Bosch and Cronenberg, How I Killed the Universal Man takes us deep into a near future where mind, body, and environment have merged in ways we can, from today's vantage, just barely comprehend. Kendall's nuanced and humane prose never abandons us on this journey to the end of consciousness, though neither does it offer any false consolation. Picking up where A Scanner Darkly, Strange Days, and Children of Men left off, this epic new masterwork immediately assumes its place in the cyberpunk canon.
– David Leo Rice, author of The New House and The Pornme Trilogy
December 21, 2023
November 12, 2023
How I Killed The Universal Man
Happy to report HIKTUM was listed on Tor’s list of anticipated indie reads: https://www.tor.com/2023/11/10/cant-m...
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October 24, 2023
How I Killed The Universal Man (available for pre-order)
My new novel is available for preorder now: https://whiskeytit.com/product/how-i-...
June 21, 2023
The Big Other Award For Fiction
I'm really happy to announce that 'The Autodidacts' is a finalist for the 2022 Big Other Award for fiction.
May 5, 2023
Excerpt from work in progress
Excerpt from a new work in progress is up at: https://www.ergot.press/authors/Thoma...
