Hal Duncan Quotes
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.
Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
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 a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.
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.
Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.
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.
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.
Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them.
–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.
I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.