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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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Richard Cabut in The Face magazine. www.richardcabut.com/blog-15

Continuing my bleeding-edge of nerd culture theme, I've written for Den of Geek about the legacy of Quatermass, and how much British sci-fi TV owes to someone who, frankly, despised it: www.denofgeek.com/tv/quatermas...

#JGBallard

Castrovalva [MC Escher, 1930] #MCEscher

Jupiter

The Red Disk [Joan Miró, 1960]

The Antipope [Max Ernst, 1941-42]

#WilliamBurroughs

COLLAGE-77 [Dan McNeil, 2023]

Corvidian Dream [Dan McNeil, 2023]

The Internal Review [Dan McNeil, 2023]

I seem to have collected quite a few new followers over the last few days, so thanks. I’m a massively unprolific writer of short (usually very short) fiction: weird, science-fictioney, horror type stuff. I also produce art, mainly to moodboard the writing. www.dan-mcneil.com linktr.ee/DanMcNeil

WOR[L]D bUiLDiNG MASCHiNE [dAN mCNEiL, 2024]

Use of Weapons [Iain M Banks, 1990]

The Crying of Lot 49 [ThomasPynchon, 1966] #ThomasPynchon]

BiblioBiographicalThing [Dan McNeil]

The Pagoda, Kew Gardens [Dan McNeil]

#GaryLarson

The Enormous Space [JG Ballard, 1989] #JGBallard

The Obscure Gods [Max Ernst, 1957]

“We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us” [Walt Kelly]

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” [George Orwell]

The Anterior View [Dan McNeil, 2023]

Cover art is for the HG Wells story ‘In the Abyss’, which was first published in 1896.

The McNeil Variations

William S Burroughs #WilliamBurroughs

On Anarchism [Noam Chomsky, 2013]

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Except from ‘The Gallery Trap’ [Dan McNeil, 2024] donotsubmit.net/the-gallery-...

#JGBallard k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/003...

Marshall McLuhan and his Deceased Doppelgänger at Manitoba Beach, 1969 [Dan McNeil, 2023]

The Towers of Light [Dan McNeil, 2024] donotsubmit.net/the-towers-o...

Bristol 411

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness [Samuel Beckett]

A screaming comes across the sky

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real” [Niels Bohr]

Opening lines from “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" [Jorge Luis Borges, 1940]

You can find a selection of my fiction, reviews and art at linktr.ee/DanMcNeil and www.dan-mcneil.com

The Observed interzone.digital/the-observed/