Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse. — Hal Duncan Arses Copy Share Image
“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Books Copy Share Image
“But functional was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was… — Hal Duncan Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system. — Hal Duncan Capitalism 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 Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a… — Hal Duncan Bad thing Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Fireworks Copy Share Image
“–I’m not like that, he says. I’m not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of… — Hal Duncan Fairy Copy Share Image
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan Books 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 Fantasy Copy Share Image
“A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking… — Hal Duncan First-lines Copy Share Image
“They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death,… — Hal Duncan Death 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
“So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud… — Hal Duncan Brand 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 Sf-criticism 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've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Arcs Copy Share Image
“Susurrus whispers through the grass and gorse, godling of the Martian wind, gene-spliced tyke of Zephyros and Ares. His story needs no… — Hal Duncan God of war Copy Share Image
“Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!” — Hal Duncan Save the world 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
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
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
“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
“In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.” — Hal Duncan Sf-criticism Copy Share Image
“Popular and unpopular don’t necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.” — Hal Duncan Popular Copy Share Image
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. — Hal Duncan Command Copy Share Image
Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing… — Hal Duncan Books Copy Share Image
