Alexander Dan

@alexanderdan.bsky.social

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kalt ytra byrði með sérstakri einangrun – Icelandic SFF author. Ég skrifa bækur // I write books // in two languages // á tveimur tungumálum. Repped by @arcaedia https://www.alexanderdan.net/

Streetsign ad for a tourist experience that states: Iceland is a volcano - experience it.
View from a window of the very nearby sea at Borðeyri, Iceland.
Midnight sunset in Reykjavík, distant view of Hallgrímskirkja.
Sand-encrusted parking lot snowdrift stubbornly clinging to existence.
Reykjavík shoreline, near midnight dusk.
Two books: Seven Days in Tokyo by José Daniel Alvior and Blowfish by Kyung-Ran Jo on a Reykjavík street.
Graffiti on a ruined building, reflections in the water.
Two famous art pieces. Above: Frieren drawn from below in a flawed perspective. Below: Famous art restoration failure of Ecce Home, Christ crowned with thorns.
Writing sample on lined paper of a Sailor 1911 L in medium-fine, Sailor blue-black ink; Pilot Falcon in soft-medium, iroshizuku yama-budo ink,; Cinnamoroll gel pen in black; and Blackwing 602 pencil, along with each writing instrument on top of the page.
Cover of the novel “Kasia og Magdalena” by Hildur Knútsdóttir.
Map of Grindavík, showing the fissure eruption today, lying straight through the defensive parameters for the town.
Eruption in Grindavík, fissure volcano approx. 500 meters from the town of Grindavík.
Winter sunset in Reykjavík.
Snow-laden branches and a blue sky.
Northern lights in Reykjavík
Meme format with girl talking: “So you see, that’s where the trouble began. That smile. That damned smile.” But the smile in question is the Creepy Guy of ye olde Heynesbók manuscript.
Ye olde manuscript manne, too drunk and filled with ye olde despair
Chocolate cake with a children’s drawing of a face, as well as text: “Election cafe for Void and Invalid votes, X-oops”.
Northern lights moving
Polaroid instant photo printer with a photo of George Costanza in a Gore-Tex parka.
Photoshop of miiverse post saying "y cant metroid crawl" but it says "y can mushroom crawl?"
Screenshot from Apple showing a Macbook screen with an AI generated text document titled 'Bedtime Story for Annie'. A popup window next to it shows chatgpt suggestions on modifying the text.
A meme format where a big lizard warrior holds a small lizard sorcerer, text beneath stating: I’ve only had Xetakti for a day and a half, but if anything happened to it, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.
The book is a wild ride and should appeal to anyone who might like the idea of magical human skulls that operate as music/audio devices, highly restrictive schools of dark Norse sorcery, tribal human-bird warrior clans, exiled huldufólk (Icelandic fairy people) who feast on human memories, hostile scorn pole-based magical attacks, and clumsy golems made from unwashed laundry.
Eruption images just outside of Grindavík.
“Happy hour 17 to 19” written over a painting of a crying child