{"author":"Hal Duncan","author_id":"Hal+Duncan","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire?","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["fear","hatred","inhumanity"],"id":24572,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["fiction","marvels","maturity","monsters","propriety"],"id":33587,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["genre","rhapsody","science-fiction"],"id":47418,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["genre","science-fiction"],"id":66993,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["attire","character","debauchery","drunkenness"],"id":82403,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"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. ","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["genre","science-fiction"],"id":130508,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker’s jackets.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["brand","elitists","genre-fiction","literature","mainstream","mundane","proud"],"id":134706,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"– No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Café.The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw the Booker, she thinks. She’d rather have a hookah.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["genre","man-booker","science-fiction"],"id":157583,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["label","sci-fi","science-fiction"],"id":169895,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["destiny","history"],"id":176426,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}