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Hal Duncan
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Hal Duncan
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 21
Fiction Writer
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Science Fiction Writer
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The Crossroads of Ayrshire
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Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.
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The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
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