“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 Beauty 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
“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
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
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets. — Hal Duncan Command 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 Attire 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 Artificial 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
“I stepped through the doors of the SA Café with a borrowed copy of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot in my hand, expecting… — Hal Duncan Asimov Copy Share Image
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake… — Hal Duncan Blake 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
“–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
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
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
“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
“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
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 Fucked Wild 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 Cock 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
