– No SF novel ever won the...

– 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.

- Hal Duncan

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

- Hal Duncan

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

- Hal Duncan

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

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

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

- Hal Duncan

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

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