Dave Duncan

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-09-23

David John Duncan was born June 30, 1933 in Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland, and became a Canadian citizen in 1960 after moving to Calgary, Alberta. He studied geology at the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1955, and worked as a geologist in the petroleum industry for roughly three decades before publishing his debut novel, A Rose-Red City, in 1986 at age 53. He went on to write more than fifty novels, sometimes under the pen names Ken Hood and Sarah B. Franklin. His novel West of January won the 1990 Aurora Award, and Children of Chaos won again in 2007; he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015. Duncan died October 29, 2018, in Victoria, British Columbia, where he had lived with his wife Janet.

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Books

• The Coming of Wisdom (1988) · The Seventh Sword Core Canon
• The Destiny of the Sword (1988) · The Seventh Sword Core Canon
• The Reluctant Swordsman (1988) · The Seventh Sword Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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