Dave Duncan (writer)
| Dave Duncan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
David John Duncan 30 June 1933 Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland |
| Residence | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Author |
| Spouse(s) | Janet Duncan (m. 1959–present) |
| Parent(s) | Norman and Winifred Duncan |
| Website | www.daveduncan.com |
David John Duncan (born 30 June 1933) is an award-winning Scottish Canadian fantasy and science fiction author.
Duncan was born in Newport-on-Tay, Scotland and was educated at the High School of Dundee before studying geology at the University of St Andrews. After graduating in 1955, Duncan moved to Calgary, Alberta, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1960. He pursued a career as a geologist in the petroleum industry for nearly three decades before he started writing science fiction and fantasy novels. He made his first sale (A Rose Red City) two years later in 1986 at the age of 53, just two weeks after his 31-year career as a geologist came to an end due to a slump in the oil business, at which point he switched to full-time writing.
Duncan currently lives on Vancouver Island in Victoria, British Columbia. He has been married since 1959 to his wife, Janet, and has one son, two daughters, and four grandchildren. He has one brother, Michael, who is a retired agriculturist.
Duncan is known to be a prolific writer and has penned over fifty books. His sixth book, West of January, won the 1990 Aurora award, an award he would win again in 2007 for Children of Chaos. He is a member of SF Canada and in 2015 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Although Duncan usually writes under his own name, he has also used the pseudonyms Ken Hood and Sarah B. Franklin.
A dying young man named Wally Smith is transferred from Earth into the body of a master swordsman in a technologically backward world by its gods for their own purposes.
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