Hal Duncan (born 21 October 1971, real name Alasdair) is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer. His works have been listed in the New Weird genre, but he prefers not to ascribe his writings to any genre.

Life

Hal Duncan was born in

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, in 1971 and grew up "in small town

" before relocating to

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, where he graduated from

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and where he still resides. Before becoming a full-time writer he used to work as a computer

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, a job that he quit in 2005. He is openly gay and terms himself a " Sodomite". Occasionally he fashions himself as "THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan" ''(

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)'' after receiving

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defining him by this expression, as reported on his personal weblog. He is also very outspoken

politically Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. The branch of social science that studies poli ...

and considers himself an " anarcho-socialist who recognizes that democracy's the least of all possible evils" but also "a little bit liberal." He is an active member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle and he took part in the

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performance group ''Word Dogs'', organised by some of the members of the Circle. Hal Duncan I9158 C

Works

Hal Duncan listed amongst his inspirations and influences such diverse authors as

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major Postmodern literature, postmodern author who influen ...

Alfred Bester Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio screenwriter, magazine Editing, editor and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including ''Th ...

H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of Weird fiction, weird, Science fiction, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Provi ...

Neal Stephenson Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores mathemati ...

Michael de Larrabeiti Michael de Larrabeiti (18 August 1934 – 18 April 2008) was an English novelist and travel writer. He is best known for writing ''The Borrible Trilogy'', which has been cited as an influence by writers in the new weird movement. Early life ...

, Philip K. Dick,

Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein ( ; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific acc ...

Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (, ; born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexual orientation, sexuality, and ...

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic poetry, poetry and visual art of the Roma ...

Michael Moorcock Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has wo ...

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A List of Nobel laureates in Literature, Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramat ...

and

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

Prose

''Vellum''

His first novel, '' Vellum – The Book of All Hours'', was released by

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in August 2005.Hal Duncan (2005), ''Vellum – The Book of All Hours'', Pan-Macmillan, August 2005, – US edition: Del Rey, April 2006, It was nominated for the

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and the

Locus Award The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine '' Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. Originally a poll ...

, and won the

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and the

Tähtivaeltaja Award Tähtivaeltaja Award is an annual literary prize presented by Helsingin science fiction seura ry for the best science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imag ...

s. It is about a war between

Heaven Heaven, or the Heavens, is a common Religious cosmology, religious cosmological or supernatural place where beings such as deity, deities, angels, souls, saints, or Veneration of the dead, venerated ancestors are said to originate, be throne, ...

and

Hell In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history sometimes depict hells as eternal destinations, such as Christianity and I ...

fought in a reality of which

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

is only a fragment; in this reality, called Vellum, live the ''Unkin'' (

Angel An angel is a spiritual (without a physical body), heavenly, or supernatural being, usually humanoid with bird-like wings, often depicted as a messenger or intermediary between God (the transcendent) and humanity (the profane) in variou ...

s and

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s). The events in the novel are described in a non-linear order, with several skips ahead and back in time. The story of the characters is linked to the Sumerian myth of

Inanna Inanna is the List of Mesopotamian deities, ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, love, and fertility. She is also associated with political power, divine law, sensuality, and procreation. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akk ...

and her descent to the underworld and to

Aeschylus Aeschylus (, ; ; /524 – /455 BC) was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek Greek tragedy, tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is large ...

tragedy A tragedy is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a tragic hero, main character or cast of characters. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy is to invoke an accompanying catharsi ...

Prometheus Bound ''Prometheus Bound'' () is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, ...

''. It is divided in two parts dedicated to the seasons of summer (entitled ""The Lost

Deus ''Deus'' (, ) is the Latin word for 'God (word), god' or 'deity'. Latin ''deus'' and ''dīvus'' ('divine') are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European *''deiwos'', 'celestial' or 'shining', from the same root ( ...

Sumer Sumer () is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. ...

") and fall (entitled "Evenfall Leaves"). ''Vellum'' has been translated amongst others into German (by Hannes Riffel), Finnish (by Nina Saikkonen), French (by Florence Dolisi), Spanish (by Luis Gallego Tevar), Italian (by Stefania Di Natale) and Polish (by Anna Reszka).

''Ink''

Its sequel, '' Ink – The Book of All Hours 2'', was published in February 2007.Hal Duncan (2007), ''Ink – The Book of All Hours 2'', Pan-Macmillan, February 2007, – US edition: Del Rey, February 2007, Its two parts are linked to the two remaining seasons, winter (entitled "Hinter's Knights") and spring ("Eastern Mourning"), and it continues the narrative (and the style) of the first instalment. The ancient works here referred to are

Euripides Euripides () was a Greek tragedy, tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to ...

's ''

The Bacchae ''The Bacchae'' (; , ''Bakkhai''; also known as ''The Bacchantes'' ) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumou ...

'' and the

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

. ''Ink'' has been shortlisted for the 2011 Tähtivaeltaja Awards. ''Ink'' has been translated into German by Hannes Riffel, Finnish by Nina Saikkonen, French by Florence Dolisi, Spanish by Luis Gallego Tévar and Polish by Anna Reszka.

''Escape from Hell!''

In 2008 he published for Monkeybrain '' Escape from Hell!'',Hal Duncan (2008), ''Escape from Hell!'', Monkeybrain, Austin (TX), a novella inspired by the 1981 movie ''

Escape from New York ''Escape from New York'' is a 1981 American Independent film, independent science fiction film, science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald ...

'' and the 1990 movie ''

Jacob's Ladder Jacob's Ladder () is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28). The significance of the dream has been de ...

'' in which four characters ("a

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, a hooker, a

hobo A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works. Et ...

and a

homo ''Homo'' () is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus ''Australopithecus'' and encompasses only a single extant species, ''Homo sapiens'' (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called ...

") try to flee from

, here represented as a

dystopia A dystopia (lit. "bad place") is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place (possibly state) in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmen ...

n version of

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in which all the damned see their punishment continuously televised. Duncan has declared that he is planning two sequels for it, ''Assault! On Heaven!'' and ''Battle! For the Planet! Of the Dead!''. It has been translated into French by Florence Dolisi as ''Evadés de l'Enfer!'', being published by

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in October 2010, and in Finnish by Einari Aaltonen.

''An A–Z of the Fantastic City''

In May 2011 Duncan announced the publication of ''An A–Z of the Fantastic City'', a "

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" for Small Beer Press, initially due to be released in February 2012. The volume, illustrated by Eric Schaller, deals with twenty-six cities, both real (

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

Guernica Guernica (, ), officially Gernika () in Basque, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain. The town of Guernica is one part (along with neighbouring Lumo) of the municipality of Gernika-Lumo ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

, London,

Washington Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A ...

) and imaginary (

Erewhon ''Erewhon: or, Over the Range'' () is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler (novelist), Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian ...

Camelot Camelot is a legendary castle and Royal court, court associated with King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described ...

R'lyeh R'lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in ''Weird Tales'' in February 1928. R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the entity call ...

, Tir-na-Nog, Urville). After some delays, it was published in April 2012 in three formats: a

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, numbered and signed hardcover format (89 copies), trade paperback and

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''Susurrus On Mars''

In 2017 he published for

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the Delaneyesque novella ''Susurrus On Mars'', set in a far future terraformed Mars. A love story patterned after

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is interspersed with sections on botany and the mythical origins of plants.

Short stories

Amongst the short stories he published are ''The Angel of Gamblers'' in '' Eidolon I'', edited by

Jonathan Strahan Jonathan Strahan (born 1964, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a ...

and Jeremy G. Byrne (2006), ''The Last Straw'' in ''

Glorifying Terrorism ''Glorifying Terrorism'' is a 2007 science fiction anthology edited by Farah Mendlesohn, which was compiled in direct response to the Terrorism Act 2006. Every story in the anthology has been specifically designed to be illegal under the Act's ...

'', edited by

Farah Mendlesohn Farah Jane Mendlesohn (born 27 July 1968) is a British academic historian, writer on speculative fiction, and active member of science fiction fandom. Mendlesohn is best-known for their 2008 book ''Rhetorics of Fantasy'', which classifies fantas ...

(2007), and ''The Tower of Morning's Bones'' in '' Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy'', edited by

Ekaterina Sedia Ekaterina Sedia (born July 9, 1970) is a Russian fantasy writer. She immigrated to the United States and attended college in New Jersey to obtain her Ph.D. Her most famous work is '' The Alchemy of Stone'', a steampunk novel that examines sexism ...

(2008). ''The Tower of Morning's Bones'' is one of the four previously published stories collected in ''Errata''. He also participated in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's ''Last Drink Bird Head'' (2009), an experiment in which 70 writers were asked the same question ("Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head?"), published by Ministry of Whimsy with the profits donated to the ProLiteracy Worldwide Organization. Three short story collections in Duncan's 'scruffian' sequence, a

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...

take on the Borribles, have been published: ''Fabbles: 1'' (sic), ''Scruffians!'', and ''A Scruffian Survival Guide''. (''Fabbles: 1'' collects three previously e-published pieces, including ''The Taking of the Stamp''. ''Scruffians!'' collects mostly previously published pieces.)

Poetry

Besides the two poetry collections ''Sonnets for Orpheus'' and ''The Lucifer Cantos'' published in very limited, handbound editions (26 and 24 copies) by Papaveria Press in 2006 and 2010 respectively, he has made most of his poetry publicly available through his blog, convinced that "there's no money in poetry. If I wanted to be read, I'm just as happy to post online and let people read it there."

''Songs for the Devil and Death''

In July 2011 Papaveria Press published ''Songs for the Devil and Death'', which includes the poems originally published in ''Sonnets for Orpheus'' and ''The Lucifer Cantos'' with the addition of several others.

Other activities

Hal Duncan participated in the album '' Ballads of the Book'' with a poem, "If You Love Me You'd Destroy Me", put in music by

Aereogramme Aereogramme was a Scottish alternative rock band from Glasgow, formed in 1998, consisting of Craig B. (vocals, guitar), Iain Cook (guitar, programming), Campbell McNeil (bass) and Martin Scott (drums). Prior to their split in 2007, the band ...

. He also wrote a musical, ''Nowhere Town'', that he defines a "

punk rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...

opera" and a "gay punk

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". It has been premiered in June 2010 in Chicago by the

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theatre group, directed by Beth Walker. He made the

libretto A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to th ...

and the vocal tracks available for download through his blog. He writes a monthly

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on BSCreview entitled ''Notes from New Sodom'', keeps a blog called ''Notes from the Geek Show'' and is active on Twitter. He contributed to

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's ''It Gets Better'' project. He wrote essays related to myth and literature, some of which are available online. He made recordings of some of his readings publicly available through his blog; some can be freely downloaded while others are being sold for a fee. For his activity as a blogger he has been nominated for the 2009/2010 Last Drink Bird Head Award in the field of "Gentle Advocacy" ("In recognition of individuals willing to enter into blunt discourse about controversial issues"), but lost the award to Ay-leen the Peacemaker from ''Beyond Victoriana''. In 2009 he was nominated for the same award but in the category "Expanding Our Vocabulary" ("In recognition of writers whose fiction or nonfiction exposes readers to new words and, often, new ideas"). The award went to

John Clute John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part ...

. On 6 September 2011 Hal Duncan took part in a " Literary Death Match" in

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

. In the event, organised and hosted by Literary Death Match co-creator Todd Zuniga, he was pitted against

Doug Johnstone Doug Johnstone (born 22 July 1970) is a Scottish crime writer based in Edinburgh. His ninth novel ''Fault Lines'' was published by Orenda Books in May 2018. His 2015 book ''The Jump'' (published by Faber & Faber) was shortlisted for the McIlvann ...

, Sophie Cooke and Katerina Vasiliou. Duncan was declared the winner after a "

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" against Vasiliou. Duncan was one of the five judges for the 2012

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Bibliography

Novels

''The Book of All Hours'' series

* ''

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''. London (UK), Pan Macmillan, 2005. * ''

Ink Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill. ...

''. London (UK), Pan Macmillan, 2007.

Other Novels

* ''Testament'' (2015)

Novellas

* '' Escape from Hell!''.

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(TX, USA), MonkeyBrain Books, 2008. * ''The Taking of the Stamp''. Los Angeles (CA, USA), LA CASE Books, 2013. * ''Susurrus On Mars''. Maple Shade (NJ, USA), Lethe Press, 2017.

Collections of short stories

* ''An A-Z of the Fantastic City''. Easthampton (MA, USA), Small Beer Press, 2012. * ''Errata''. New Sodom Press, 2013. * ''Fabbles: 1''. New Sodom Press, 2013. * ''Scruffians!''. Maple Shade (NJ, USA), Lethe Press, 2014. * ''A Scruffian Survival Guide''. New Sodom Press, 2017.

Poetry

* ''Sonnets for Orpheus''.

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolit ...

(UK), Papaveria Press, 2006. No ISBN (limited edition of 26 copies) * ''The Lucifer Cantos''. Wakefield (UK), Papaveria Press, 2010. No ISBN (limited edition of 24 copies) * ''Songs for the Devil and Death''. Wakefield (UK), Papaveria Press, 2011.

Anthologies edited

* ''Caledonia Dreamin' - Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent''.

References

External links

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