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

- Hal Duncan

I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and…

- Hal Duncan

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

- Hal Duncan

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake a…

- Hal Duncan

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 …

- Hal Duncan

Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water…

- Hal Duncan

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the …

- Hal Duncan

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 r…

- Hal Duncan

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

- Hal Duncan