“One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long… — Hal Duncan 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 Copy Share Image
“Ray Bradbury’s entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.” — Hal Duncan 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 Copy Share Image
“Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that’s been… — Hal Duncan 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 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
“Popular and unpopular don’t necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
