“The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.” — Hal Duncan Ideologue Copy Share Image
“Cause what do groanhuffs know? All’s they’ve done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers,… — Hal Duncan Rumor Copy Share Image
“One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it… — Hal Duncan Goals Copy Share Image
“For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that… — Hal Duncan Fiction Copy Share Image
“Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy . Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general. — Hal Duncan Abhorrence Copy Share Image
“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate… — Hal Duncan Fiction Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Abjection Copy Share Image
“Here now, in the elsewhen of the SF Café, we’ve had the shenanigans going on for decades, but we haven’t yet adjusted… — Hal Duncan Fiction Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Fiction Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important… — Hal Duncan Absence Copy Share Image
“See, you have the choice we didn’t. You wanna think about it though, you do, before you decide to throw your lot… — Hal Duncan Choice Copy Share Image
A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be… — Hal Duncan Caffeine Copy Share Image
“–The People’s Independent Republic of Arse, Cock and Yo-ho-bloody-ho, I say. PIRACY! –You are a pirate! –Damn right I am! I’m Flash… — Hal Duncan Piracy Copy Share Image
I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence… — Hal Duncan Attitude Copy Share Image
“He is encompassed himself, in the steering clasp of hand on shoulder and scrubber-fluffed noggin bobbing in prayer to the gods of… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace.… — Hal Duncan Abyss Copy Share Image
“So they fucked wild, Puk astride at first, then turned, to his hands and knees, to be tupped under Jaq’s hunching thrusts,… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and… — Hal Duncan Bigots Copy Share Image
