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Below is an AI summary. I typically write my own posts but I tripped across this news and wanted to post it "hot off the presses" as quickly as possible: Alan Turing wrote a newly transcribed autobiographical story about homosexuality Alan Turing's unpublished, semi-autobiographical short story titled "Pryce's Buoy" has been fully transcribed and analyzed for the first time. A literary analysis by Professor Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge was published in The Review of English Studies. The text provides a rare, direct look at how the legendary World War II codebreaker and computer scientist viewed his own homosexuality. The Plot: The six-page handwritten manuscript serves as an "autofictional" retelling of the late-1951 sexual encounter in Manchester that ultimately led to Turing’s 1952 arrest for "gross indecency". The Characters: Turing casts himself as "Alec Pryce," a celebrated scientist who has just complet...