Beluthahatchie

This is a blog by Andy Duncan, a fiction writer, teacher and journalist, mostly in that order.

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Kit Reed, 1932-2017

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(I first posted this on Facebook on Sept. 29, 2017.) Sydney and Andy Duncan, Kit Reed and David G. Hartwell at ICFA in Orlando, Fla., M...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Brian Aldiss, 1925-2017

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I took this photo of Brian Aldiss the last time I saw him, at the World Science Fiction Convention in London, three years ago this summe...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Ever more just, every day

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Some version of this likely is going on my syllabi this fall. As a fiftysomething Southern white man, I am inevitably associated, by hi...
Saturday, August 05, 2017

New sale: "The Devil's Whatever" will be in The Book of Magic, ed. Gardner Dozois (Bantam, 2018)

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I just sold a new novelette, "The Devil's Whatever," to Gardner Dozois for his upcoming Book of Magic anthology, which I ...
Friday, August 04, 2017

Man Against Myth by Barrows Dunham (1947)

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On my groaning bookcases devoted to pseudoscience, urban legends and folklore in general, a battered first-edition hardcover, without dust ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

The Piggie Park defense

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(This is re-posted from my Facebook page , where many comments can be found.) As I graduated from an all-white South Carolina private aca...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

A call for Western Maryland weirdness

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As an ongoing research project, I hope to compile an exhaustive list of Western Maryland weirdness. Whether it’s factual, fanciful ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

The legend of the belled buzzard

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Illustration from The Sylva Herald. Jerome Clark devotes a chapter of his book Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurre...
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I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
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