Welcome to Gord Sellar Online!
Hi, I’m Gord Sellar, and I’m pleased to have you visit.
If you’re here after reading or listening to one of my stories, such as the Starship Sofa podcast of “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues” or “Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands” in Apex Magazine’s February 2009 issue, then you might be interested in reading more about these and other published stories here, or checking out my publications list. A number of my stories available free online.
Perhaps you checked out my recent article on SF in South Korea at the Shine Anthology weblog, or my column, “XY”, and articles in Cahoots Magazine? I’ve got an ongoing series of posts about science fiction in Korea here, and other articles online, too — check out the panel “Best” under “Blog Stuff” in the sidebar.
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
The Law of the Handicap of a Head Start
Shiny!
Essays on Pop Culture
Outsider Writing
Launch Pad Open to Applications
Happy Birthday to… me.
The Hub of… Outmoded Software Shackles?
Alone With Gandhari
Ze Mad Rushin’
Alone With Gandhari
Recently Published Stories
- "Alone With Gandhari." -- Clarkesworld #42, March 2010. Podcast by Clarkesworld (read by Kate Baker), March 1st, 2010.
- "보살들." ("The Bodhisattvas", Korean translation by Kim Chang-gyu.) In 백만 광년의 고독 (One Million Light-Years of Solitude) SOAO Workshop anthology from Omelas, December 2009. (See Forthcoming Publications, below, for English-language original.)
- "Of Melei, of Ulthar." Clarkesworld, October 2009.
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" -- podcast at Starship Sofa, read by JJ Campanella (25 March 2009). Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- "Tian Ju Zhiao (The Teaching of the Lord of Heaven)." (Poem.) Diet Soap #3 -- Sabotage. (1 March 2009). Buy an electronic or print edition here or get a FREE PDF -- see here.
- "Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands." 
Apex Magazine (3 Feb. 2009). Now available in Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. 1 edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth.
- "Like, Stabbed by a Love Triangle, Dude," "The Xanax King and his Wife's Painted Hoo-Has," and "Homeless Bob and Lester the Black Guy" (creative nonfiction) and "Groan" (a poem) -- Outlanders zine published by Scott Burgeson.
- "The Country of the Young." Interzone 219 (Dec. 2008). Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.
- "Dhuluma No More," read by David Munger. Podcast by Starship Sofa. (5 November 2008.)
- "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang," available in the annual Canadian SF anthology Tesseracts Twelve, edited by Claude Lalumière.
- "Dhuluma No More." Asimov's SF October/November 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition of the magazine available here.)
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues." Asimov's SF, July 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.)- "Pahwakhe" -- Fantasy magazine, 21 January 2008. Or listen to the Podcastle Podcast here (from 2 May 2008)!
- "The Egan Thief" -- Flurb #4, Fall/Winter 2007.
- "Junk" -- Nature, Vol 448: 2 August, 2007. (PDF also available.)Forthcoming Publications
- "The Broken Pathway." (novelette.) Forthcoming in The Immersion Book of SF Vol 1, edited by Carmelo Rafala, Spring 2010.
- "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report By Organic." (novelette.) Forthcoming in SHINE Anthology, edited by Jetse de Vries, Spring 2010.- "The Bodhisattvas" (novelette). Forthcoming in Subterranean Magazine issue edited by Jonathan Strahan, April 2010.
- "Dadeumie Sori", "Ode to the Competent", and "Tian Zhu Jiao" (poems). Forthcoming in future issues of Diet Soap.
- "Improperly Prepared Blowfish" -- Machine of Death, forthcoming.
Recent Articles
- "Parasites in the Human Ecosystem." Cahoots, Summer 2009.- "SF in South Korea Today." The Shine Anthology weblog, 9 April 2009.
- "Men, Women, and Internet Trolls" -- the Winter '08 installment of my column "XY" for Cahoots Magazine, 15 Dec. 2008.
- "How Candle Girl and V Took on 2MB." Clarkesworld, October 2008.
- XY column installment: Why Are Women More Religious? at Cahoots Magazine. (Fall 2008)- "Fending Off Discontentment." The Korea Herald, 25 September 2008.
- "Another Undiscovered Country: An Analysis of the Effects of Culture on the Reception and Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea Through The Examination of 21st Century Korean SF Cinema." (Alt. link for those without Hangeul on their PCs.) Presented at the 4th International Congress of Korean Studies.
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- "Planet Crazy" in Cahoots Magazine, Spring 2008.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.-
Happy Birthday to... me. - March 4, 2010
This year is the year of the tiger, which is my sign in the Asian zodiac. That means, of course, my [...]-
The Hub of... Outmoded Software Shackles? - March 3, 2010
In one of her essays, Ursula K. Le Guin described a Native American culture (I think it was) in [...]-
Alone With Gandhari - March 2, 2010
As of right now, my story "Alone With Gandhari" is online as part of Clarkesworld issue #42. [...]-
Ze Mad Rushin' - March 2, 2010
No, this is not a post about Rasputin, but about the first day of the spring semester, which was [...]-
Alone With Gandhari - March 2, 2010
"Alone With Gandhari" appeared in Clarkesworld #42, in March 2010. It was the second story I sold [...]
