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The Hardest Part: Alexandra Duncan on Sound, ahead of her appearance this Sunday at Flyleaf Books

Posted on 2015-10-09 at 13:57 by montsamu

Asheville author Alexandra Duncan's new novel Sound is the stand-alone companion to her award-winning novel Salvage, a debut that internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called “kick-ass, brilliant, feminist science fiction.” But I believe my interest was piqued when it was being described as perfect "for fans of Beth Revis, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica." In Salvage, the action focused on Ava, "a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrat

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Coming to Town: Alexandra Duncan for Salvage, as part of Sunday's panel on powerful women in YA literature at Flyleaf Books

Posted on 2014-04-11 at 20:47 by montsamu

A week ago, Asheville author Alexandra Duncan contributed a "Hardest Part" guest post. Now she's back as a "Coming to Town" interviewee ahead of her appearance this Sunday at 2 pm as part of Flyleaf Books' Girl Power!: A Panel on Powerful Women in Young Adult Literature featuring Jessica Spotswood, Nathan Kotecki, Meagan Spooner, and Alexandra Duncan. We talked briefly about, well, the obvious: powerful women in YA lit, how the event was put together, and her just-released debut novel Salvage.

   

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The Hardest Part: Alexandra Duncan on Salvage

Posted on 2014-04-02 at 17:01 by montsamu

I first heard about Asheville, NC author Alexandra Duncan back in 2011, when her novella "Rampion" (published in F&SF) starting generating a lot of buzz -- it would go on to be selected by Rich Horton to appear in his annual "Year's Best" anthology for Prime Books. Reading "Rampion", a fairytale-infused historical fiction set in the Caliphate of Al-Andalus, I started following her writing, but... it appears she had something longer in mind, for which some serious waiting would be required. Luckily, I had

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