“Wonderful.” – Nancy Kress
“Wonderfully demented.” – Michael Swanwick
“A genre to himself.” – Gardner Dozois
“Brilliant.” – Ellen Datlow, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror
“Mesmerizing.” – Ed Park, LATimes.com
“Superlative.” – Paula Guran, Horror Online
“One of SF and fantasy’s most distinctive voices.” – Mark R. Kelly, Locus
“Duncan puts one perfectly chosen word right after the other from beginning to end.” – F. Brett Cox, The New York Review of Science Fiction
“On cold winter nights, I warm myself with the memory that Andy Duncan was once a student of mine.” – John Kessel
“A keen ear for dialogue, a Southerner's love of storytelling, a gift for characterization, a fascination with obscure history and folklore, and a wonderfully weird mind.” – Cynthia Ward, Amazon.com
“Line by line and page by page, the prose is riveting. It delivers that same strong kick as a Mason jar full of Ray Bradbury or Manly Wade Wellman at their best.” – Michael Swanwick, Locus
“Wonderfully crafted prose that reads as if it is rolling right out of his mouth extempore." -- Rich Horton, Tangent Online
“An absolute natural storyteller.” – Jason Erik Lundberg
“Like listening to an old friend tell you about a local legend.” – Rob H. Bedford, SFFWorld.com
“Stunningly beautiful.” – Sean Melican, BookPage
“If Harper Lee and Gene Wolfe had a love child, Andy Duncan is it." -- Craig Jacobsen, SFRA Review
“Duncan's short stories are marvels of setting and diction.” – Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
“Superb.” – Jonathan Strahan, Locus
“All of his stories ring true, as if they had the whole weight of human history behind them.” – Mark Wingenfeld, The New York Review of Science Fiction
“Duncan shows an hallucinatory grasp of idiom, of place-setting tact, an actor's clarity at the rendering of voice.” – John Clute, Washington Post Book World
“There's no good name for what Andy Duncan does. … Duncan's imagination runs through that fertile ground previously tilled by artists such as Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson and Poe.” – Mark Hughes Cobb, The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
“The stories are virtually unclassifiable . . . as powerful as any from Richard Powers or Rick Moody, T.C. Boyle or Steve Erickson … a bizarre blend of Faulkner and Hemingway with touches of Tennessee Williams and Kurt Vonnegut.” – Gary S. Potter, Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier
“Like a grand tour with a time machine. … Irresistible.” – Ernest Hogan, Science Fiction Weekly
“Just brilliant.” – Mary Anne Mohanraj
“Amazing range and passion, wonderful writing. Weird and sad, surprising and wise. And very, very funny. Damn.” – Patrick O’Leary
“Powerful, compulsively readable.” – Fiona Kelleghan, The Washington Post
“An artist of death and memory, one of the finest in contemporary speculative fiction: hugely versatile, at once darkly humorous and utterly humane.” – Nick Gevers, Infinity Plus
“There is authentic genius here, irrepressible, surely enough to stimulate a tired genre to renewed life.” – Nick Gevers, Locus
“Echoes of Arthur C. Clarke's best work in the sixties/seventies in the way he uses human emotion and commitment alongside the technical and political. Top notch.” – Mark Watson, Best SF
“Duncan gives us the oldest form of fantasy, the legend, or folk tale: not just the childish folk legend of fireside entertainment but the one that has taken on enough mythic resonance to seem real.” – Sherwood Smith, Tangent Online
“Every story is unique and remarkable.” – Byron Tetrick
“A delight, a surprise, and an original.” – James Stevens-Arce
“Like a cross between The Twilight Zone and To Kill a Mockingbird.” – John C. Snider
“You're likely to be laughing one moment, in awe the next and perhaps horrified before the tale is done. Few authors can pull off such delicate tonal balances in a short story, although William Faulkner achieved it more than once … Will satisfy any reader brave enough to handle the strange places Duncan visits, the places between disturbing fantasy and ruthless reality.” – John Mark Eberhart, The Kansas City Star
“A new writer who, like Dylan, gathers up traditional materials and twists them into something new. … The pleasure to be had, and it is deep and abiding, is … to hear these citizens of the Invisible Republic speak clearly and truly about lost histories and forgotten places in voices as endearingly American as Bob Dylan or Dock Boggs or Huckleberry Finn.” – Paul J. McAuley, Interzone
“Fantasist and folklorist, he takes premises that are not made up, or at least are not made up by Andy Duncan … , and creates new and strange stories out of them, which nevertheless tell the truth about the way things happened. You owe it to yourself to read these stories and let them become a part of your own past.” – Christopher Cobb, Strange Horizons