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Hal Duncan quotes: I likes me some 'Shit Blows Up' fiction, don't get me wrong.

I likes me some 'Shit Blows Up' fiction, don't get me wrong.

Hal Duncan quotes: Find the truth and spread the lie.

Find the truth and spread the lie.

Hal Duncan quotes: I kissed the boys and made them cry ... in ecstasy.

I kissed the boys and made them cry ... in ecstasy.

Hal Duncan quotes: So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.

So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.

Hal Duncan quotes: She has to be written out of history and written into myth.

She has to be written out of history and written into myth.

Hal Duncan quotes: The crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?

The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be?

Hal Duncan quotes: For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

Hal Duncan quotes: Soylent Brown? It ain't people, but it comes from them.

Soylent Brown? It ain't people, but it comes from them.

Hal Duncan quotes: AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?

AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?

Hal Duncan quotes: 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 all mixed up, like.

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 all mixed up, like.

Hal Duncan quotes: One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it as a novum.

Hal Duncan quotes: 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.

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.

Hal Duncan quotes: So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not?

So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not?

Hal Duncan quotes: Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Hal Duncan quotes: Fuck, if only 'aesthetic idiom' didn't sound so damn poncy.

Fuck, if only 'aesthetic idiom' didn't sound so damn poncy.

Hal Duncan quotes: Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map.

Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map.

Hal Duncan quotes: All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

Hal Duncan quotes: For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

Hal Duncan quotes: The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.

The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe.

Hal Duncan quotes: Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.

Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.

Hal Duncan quotes: Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Hal Duncan quotes: In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.

In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.

Hal Duncan quotes: All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

Hal Duncan quotes: Brain out, sponge in' fiction.

Brain out, sponge in' fiction.

Hal Duncan quotes: Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

Hal Duncan quotes: The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.

The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.

Hal Duncan quotes: In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway.

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn't matter if you're filthy. In theory anyway.

Hal Duncan quotes: It's the doors that make a prison, he says, not the walls. The doors you don't even try to open.

It's the doors that make a prison, he says, not the walls. The doors you don't even try to open.

Hal Duncan quotes: Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.

Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.

Hal Duncan quotes: Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity.

Hal Duncan quotes: Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!

Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space!

Hal Duncan quotes: Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Hal Duncan quotes: Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Hal Duncan quotes: Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Hal Duncan quotes: The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.