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 journalist for donkeyWolf media, is sent to participate and report on a clinical trial for a newly developed, biopharmaceutical, antidepressant. While researching the article, and the disappearance of its lead researcher, Lakerman is drawn into a complex world of body augmentations, migrant labour, billionaires, a Virtual Reality Game and a series of fatally seductive mutations.
How I Killed The Universal Man is a transhumanist noir taking place in a near future where environmental disaster and the advent of biological A.I is leading to the radical reorganisation of consciousness. A narrative about the unknown forces structuring narrative’s necessity, How I Killed The Universal Man begins from the premise that reality is always virtual.
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Was intrigued enough to do some research. The donkeyWolf (Blog/Art) is actually an online blog (donkeywolf.blogspot.com) associated with Penny Nickels, featuring artistic, stitching, and craft-related content but stopped posting somewhere around 2020. The author of this novel is probably not aware of it. I was also curious enough top have a look at the publisher website. It lacks some basic bibliographic information (page count, size, …) and had to google the isbn to find out more. I find the epub version a little overprized (10 $).
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