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Hi, I’m Gord Sellar. I’m a science fiction writer and professor, currently living in South Korea.
If you’re here after reading or listening to one of my stories, then you might be interested in reading more about it, or other published stories here, or checking out my publications list. A number of my stories available free online. There are also a large number of stories available online, along with articles and reviews, and you can see links over in the sidebar to the right. Feel free to check out my blog, my bio, and you can contact me or subscribe to my RSS feeds. Or just download some free music and rock out.
By the way, I’m also online (sporadically) at a few other places: photos at Flickr, a profile on Facebook, some tweeting on Twitter, and my blog is mirrored on Livejournal here.
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Recent Posts
- Pale Brewday: Wonmisan Belgian Pale/ESB
I’ve felt like getting back into Belgian brewing, but at the moment I have a nice cake of Safale S-04 (the English Ale yeast) in the bottom of a carboy, and I’d like to pitch onto it, so I figured today would be a great day to do a double batch, split right down the [...]
- Playback by Raymond Chandler
What can I say? Chandler is Chandler — he does the thing he does, and he does it well, but I’m not sure I feel like reading the remaining novel in the volume, The Long Good-bye, right now. Apparently, a lot of people see this as the least of Chandler’s novels, something of a denouement [...]
- Ruler of the Your Own World (네 멋대로 해라) — The Halfway Point
During my first few years in Korea, I asked Koreans I knew what was the best South Korean-made TV show they’d ever seen. I would hear different answers from different people, but one consistent answer I got from people who cared about and consumed a lot of movies, films, and books, was the recommendation that [...]
- Classic Beer Style Series #6: Belgian Ale
The old Classic Beer Styles Series books are a mixed bag: some, like Smoked Beers (by Ray Daniels and Geoff Larson), and I have to say, while Pierre Rajotte’s Belgian Ale entry into the series was probably useful at the time it was published, it’s dated and one is better off checking out the Belgian [...]
- It Says Something…
Miss Jiwaku told me about a news report regarding a Canadian who had murdered his girlfriend three years ago (but had pretended she’d drowned accidentally, pursuing a tennis ball), fled the country, gotten religion, but finally returned to Korea to turn himself in. He claimed he’d murdered her because he was afraid she was going [...]
Recently Published Stories
- "Improperly Prepared Blowfish" -- NEW! Listen to the podcast here! -- Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki. 13 Oct. 2010. (Free PDF version of the book available here, if you like it click on the image and order yourself a copy!) 
- "The Clockworks of Hanyang" in The Immersion Book of Steampunk, ed. Gareth D. Jones. Published Sept. 2011.
"Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika" in Clarkesworld #58 (July 2011). (Podcast also available.)
"Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" reprinted in Enter A Future: Fantastic Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction. Ebook, published 15 Dec. 2010. Available from Amazon.com.
- "The Broken Pathway." (novelette.) The Immersion Book of SF Vol 1, edited by Carmelo Rafala, 30 Sept. 2010.
- "The Bodhisattvas." Published in Subterranean Magazine guest edited by Jonathan Strahan, Spring 2010.
- "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report By Organic" in SHINE Anthology, edited by Jetse de Vries, Spring 2010. Read an excerpt online here!Or listen to the podcast at Starship Sofa!
- "Alone With Gandhari." -- Clarkesworld #42, March 2010. Podcast by Clarkesworld (read by Kate Baker), March 1st, 2010.Check out a complete list of my publications here.
Grab Some Music
Korean indie rock with lost saxophone in tow:
- Product by Dabang Band (2004)
- Pig Over Seoul by Dabang Band (2002)Live acoustic/electronic ambient chillout:
- Live 1998 by ApocryphaCrusty, weird modern classical student compositions: - an assortment of compositions I wrote as an undergrad from 1995-1996.
If you're one of those people who is into owning the physical CD, Dabang Band's 2nd album, Product:
... is still available via YesAsia. I won't see a
centwon either way, but it's a pretty nice, ahem, product.-
British Brewday: Wonmisan Brunner (Northern Brown, v.2) - January 17, 2012
I decided it was time to get brewing today, so I quickly updated a recipe that Miss Jiwaku really [...]-
Listen to "Improperly Prepared Blowfish" - January 11, 2012
Well, one of the first stories I sold professionally has finally been podcast over at Machine of [...]-
Gobble-Gobble - January 11, 2012
Yeah, for you Errol Morris fans, that's a double-gobble: Well, here are some links for you [...]-
I'm the Dojisa of Kyeonggi-do! (Stoop Before Me, Mere Civilian!) - January 4, 2012
Caveat: I'm not fluent in Korean. I got help with this, but there may be small errors. And now, [...]-
쓰레기 같은 학생, or, Why You Might Need Pepperspray - January 3, 2012
"Grabage-Like Student" is the title I've written in Korean. But a better translation is, "Asshole [...]
