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Dan McNeil
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A STREAMLINED DOOMSDAY MACHINE ➡️ Writer of weird surrealistic words ➡️ My Exhibition Of Post-Agrarian Psychopathy is at https://linktr.ee/DanMcNeil and https://www.dan-mcneil.com/
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Dan McNeil @themcvariations.bsky.social · Nov 29
You can find a selection of my fiction, reviews and art at linktr.ee/DanMcNeil and www.dan-mcneil.com
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Swastika Night
[Murray Constantine, 1937]
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December 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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No More Heroes? The Death of Alice B Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.) by Meg Allen - Asylum Magazine
I was just a teenager when I first read a novel by James Tiptree Jr. I loved the writing. It was wildly inventive, with a keen sense of injustice that put the excluded and marginalised at centre stage...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The Descendants
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Excerpt from ‘And Life, Orbiting A Main Sequence Star II’
[Dan McNeil, 2021]
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December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The Western Singularity
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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We Are Not Compatible
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Excerpt from ‘And Life, Orbiting A Main Sequence Star II’
[Dan McNeil, 2021]
www.fugitivesandfuturists.com/fiction/and-...
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Intersection of Insanity
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
December 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Soviet Sky
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
December 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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‘I almost always play it in hiding, alone’: can anyone get into free jazz, history’s most maligned music?
Even though he’s partial to hideous noise, free jazz is mostly unknown to the Guardian’s pop critic. A new guidebook from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore may change his mind
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November 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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‘An inner duty’: the 35-year quest to bring Bach’s lost organ works to light
Musicologist Peter Wollny chanced upon the manuscripts in 1992 and authenticating them took half of his lifetime
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November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️

Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃

Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Southern Angels
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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“Above, just out of sight, Andromeda burned.”

[‘The Arcachon Continuum’, Dan McNeil, 2022, Plutonics Journal, Volume XV].
plutonicsjournal.com/volume-xv/
Available on Lulu or as free PDF download.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Century!
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Berberian Sound Studio
[dir. Peter Strickland, 2012]
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Indifference
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The Principles of Decay
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Subterranean Light
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Underwater is not Underwater
[Dan McNeil, 2023]
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM