“All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.”
“All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.”
Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“So they watch over us like gods of old. Our patron sinners.”
Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites“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.”
Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites“Personally, I’d like to see the word genre taken out back and shot, a bullet in the back of its head, if it’s going to be so overloaded with meanings it’s just gibberish skewed to self-serving doublethink.”
Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“The spelunkers of speculative fiction mining phosphorescent filth from the bowels of the city of New Sodom, the Sci-Fi freaks scraping kipple and back from the bins of decades-old shit sandwiches out back, composting it to grow shrooms, we have built this thing to take its ”
Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them.”
Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“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, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“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, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.”
Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions“All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.”
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