Beluthahatchie
This is a blog by Andy Duncan, a fiction writer, teacher and journalist, mostly in that order.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
"An occurrence, partaking of the marvelous": The legendary rocking cradle of Lynchburg, Va.
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In the first volume of L.B. Taylor Jr.'s long-running series The Ghosts of Virginia (1993), one chapter is titled "The Extraor...
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...
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