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> [“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/for-many-readers-writers-editors-and-agents-pretty-much-the-working/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

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## More by Hal Duncan

> [“Welcome to Erehwyna!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/welcome-to-erehwyna/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“Susurrus whispers through the grass and gorse, godling of the Martian wind, gene-spliced tyke of Zephyros and Ares. His story needs no Ovid, tells…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/susurrus-whispers-through-the-grass-and-gorse-godling-of-the-martian/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/but-the-bigots-always-see-those-whom-they-hate-as-morally-corrupt-as/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“Susurrus is a different kind of flirt though, fickle as a godling of wind can only be but light and warm as one father,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/susurrus-is-a-different-kind-of-flirt-though-fickle-as-a-godling-of/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/where-names-of-people-or-places-would-mean-little-to-a-contemporary/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/one-can-revise-the-rules-shift-the-goal-posts-but-to-do-so-is-just-to/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/i-m-sort-of-exploring-where-pacifism-and-socialism-come-into-conflict/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/prejudice-validates-itself-as-righteous-abhorrence-of-the-criminally/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“Cause what do groanhuffs know? All’s they’ve done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/cause-what-do-groanhuffs-know-all-s-they-ve-done-is-heard-our-tales/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/the-conflict-between-pacifism-and-socialism-ultimately-reflects-a/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“I kissed the boys and made them cry ... in ecstasy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/i-kissed-the-boys-and-made-them-cry-in-ecstasy/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/for-many-readers-writers-editors-and-agents-pretty-much-the-working/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/they-say-that-nothing-can-stand-against-such-a-man-for-the-one-gun/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/homophobia-s-just-one-form-of-abjection-and-wherever-you-have-a/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

> [“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-duncan/losing-maturity-in-one-s-fiction-for-the-sake-of-marvels-and-monsters/)

[Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-duncan/)

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