Posts Tagged ‘Hal Duncan’

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    Notes from New Sodom: The Kerspindle Kerfuffle
    The Autonomous Archipelago of Åthorland It was Friday night in the city of Writing when the shit hit the fan. I didn’t make it down to the SF Café myself till Saturday afternoon or so, having been off at a gig that Friday night; so when I finally stumbled in, somewhat worse for wear, to grab my daily brunch of coffee and a cigarette over the Twitter Gazette,...
    by Hal Duncan at February 3rd, 2010 at 04:02 am
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    Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi
    Ordure and Bullshit “Nine tenths of science fiction is crud. Of course, nine tenths of everything is crud.” Theodore Sturgeon In the uptown district of Literature and the midtown district of Mainstream, so the story goes, the high-brow and the mid-brow all turn their noses up when they glance downtown, in the direction of Genre. Fairy tales for children, they...
    by Hal Duncan at January 5th, 2010 at 06:01 am
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    Hal Duncan’s The Lucifer Cantos – Gimmie One!
    Short note, as I love it when I run into something cool. Sweet title? Check. Hal Duncan? Check? Super sweet, envy inducing binding? Yes! The aforementioned Duncan’s (who writes a column here at BSC called Notes from New Sodom–check out his latest The Marriage(s) of Science Fiction / Fantasy) The Lucifer Cantos is coming from (I think) Papaveria Press, which...
    by Jay Tomio at December 4th, 2009 at 11:12 am
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    Notes from New Sodom: The Marriage(s) of Science Fiction / Fantasy
    The Great Debate “The question of whether a certain story of imagination is a fantasy or a science fiction work would depend upon the device the author uses to explain his projected or unreal world. If he uses the gimmick or device of saying: ‘This is a logical or probable assumption based upon known science, which is going to develop from known science or from...
    by Hal Duncan at December 2nd, 2009 at 09:12 pm
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    Notes from New Sodom: On Blood, Bad Boys and Bottoms by Hal Duncan
    The Inner Inhumanity I’ve got a theory, one that’s been brewing for a while really, ever since I first read Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire and Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls. It’s one that’s been partly informed by my… exposure to the Twilight phenomenon, to the general prevalence of the vampire trope these days. And after...
    by Hal Duncan at November 5th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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    Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan
    Rebuilding Sodom Was Sodom destroyed? Aye, and Gomorrah to six miles around it. The rivers beneath it boiled in the street. The mountain vomited rock on the orchards. And no one now may live upon the place. O my city! What city can I found? Where now must I go to make a home?”       – Samuel R. Delany, Driftglass       I can’t...
    by Hal Duncan at October 1st, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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    Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café
    The Science Fiction Café “Don’t tell anybody, but science fiction no longer exists.” Matthew Cheney, The Old Equations, Strange Horizons Welcome to the SF Café, in the ghetto of Genre, in the city of Writing, in the Republic of Art.  We call it the SF Café because only the letters S and F survive, but you can still see the full name today, The Science...
    by Hal Duncan at September 3rd, 2009 at 09:09 am
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    What is Style? by Hal Duncan
         What is Style? by Hal Duncan      What is style? To me, the easiest definition of style is pragmatic. It’s not from the viewpoint of the writer but from the viewpoint of the copyist: style as the recognisable-because-recurrent linguistic features that we’d copy if we were trying to pastiche or parody another’s writing....
    by BSCreview Guest at February 6th, 2009 at 05:02 am
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    The Latest Teacup Tempest by Hal Duncan
         The Latest Teacup Tempest by Hal Duncan      Elitism, escapism, world-building, blah blah blah. I’ve had my head down in terms of forums and blog-brouhahs. There’s a lot of, um, passion being thrown about, which is a good thing — it’s nice to know people give a fuck — but to be honest, I think...
    by BSCreview Guest at January 23rd, 2009 at 02:01 am
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    The Electric Mayhem: Imaginary Man
    Escape from Hell! By Hal Duncan Escape From Hell! is like a John Carpenter/Walter Hill late 70’s-early 80’s movie in book form. If you understand the references then you get it right off. I mean if the bridge scene doesn’t take you back to Escape from New York then nothing will. The action is ramped up to insane levels, and it just keeps pumping forward...
    by Brian at January 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am
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    Contest – Escape From Hell! by Hal Duncan (5 copies!)
    After reading the Hell-log at the BookSpot Beat with Hal Duncan – how can you not want to get in on this contest? Today the BSC has 5 copies of Escape From Hell! up for grabs! This was published by MonkeyBrain Books this month! Remember, we have the prologue for you to read! Synopsis: A hitman, a hooker, a homosexual kid, and a hobo suicide make the ultimate prison...
    by Jay Tomio at December 16th, 2008 at 02:12 am
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    The BSC Beat – Hell Cant with Hal Duncan
    Back with another edition of the BookSpot Beat, the BookSpot Central 10-question, topic specific interview! Today we join forces with Hal Duncan to give you Hell! Duncan is the author of two novels: Vellum and Ink. Vellum was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and BFS Award for Best Novel honors as well as getting nominated for the Locus and and Crawford awards for...
    by Jay Tomio at November 26th, 2008 at 03:11 am
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    Exclusive – Escape From Hell! by Hal Duncan (prologue)
    ESCAPE FROM HELL! By Hal Duncan PROLOGUE           Night in the City It’s night in the city, clouds overhead painted crimson by the streetlights, roof underfoot mirroring the same light in the sleek of water shattered by splash-patterns of ripples and raindrops, constant but arrhythmic, out of synch with the slow onward trudge...
    by Jay Tomio at November 19th, 2008 at 04:11 am
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    Contest – win Ink singed by Hal Duncan
    Vellum was one of my favorite books in the last couple years so it’s only right that FBS brings the second and closing chapter to Hal Duncan’s Book of all Hours, Ink. I have interviewed Hal on two occasions, most recently here, and when Vellum debuted here. Synopsis: Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were human. But in a moment of brutal transfiguration,...
    by Jay Tomio at February 23rd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
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    On the Spot at BSC – Hal Duncan interview (2006
    The author featured in this installment of On The Spot is our first returning guest. We last spoke to him last year when his debut, Vellum was released in the UK. This time – our interview feature extended since then – we speak to him shortly after its U.S. release. Vellum is on the Locus shortlist in the Best First Novel category, as well as being nominated...
    by Jay Tomio at May 20th, 2006 at 06:05 pm
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