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
이별
Books, Books, Books
Orcs!
Argh!
Korean Headache
Everything is Fake
Not Quite Foucault, But…
Life in Orbit (meta4ickle)
I Even Remember My Teacher’s Name…
On Engineered Obsolescence in Music Today
Recently Published Stories
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues" -- podcast at Starship Sofa, read by JJ Campanella (25 March 2009).
- "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).
- "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.)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.-
Everything is Fake - June 24, 2009
I forgot to blog this, in the press of personal events, goodbye parties for a coworker/friend, and [...]-
Not Quite Foucault, But... - June 23, 2009
I'm grading final exams from my Media English course -- where, unlike what the title might suggest, [...]-
Life in Orbit (meta4ickle) - June 22, 2009
Sometimes, you're grateful just to catch the skyhooks as they scream past. [kml_flashembed [...]-
I Even Remember My Teacher's Name... - June 18, 2009
To those of you who are teaching here, and given to shooting your mouth off, let this be a [...]-
On Engineered Obsolescence in Music Today - June 17, 2009
This afternoon, a music professor from my university took a few of us out for lunch. I was invited [...]
