• Archive for May, 2008

    Bracing Myself for Evisceration, But At Least I’ll Probably Still Have All My Horrid Teeth

    by  • May 30, 2008 • KOREA, PERSONAL, SF, TRAVELS • 8 Comments

    Well, Fukuoka here I come. I guess my SF-writer credentials maybe came in handy this time, for one of my proposed papers — “Another Undiscovered Country: Understanding the Particularities of Reception and Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea Through The Examination of 21st Century Korean SF Cinema” — got accepted for...

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    “Lester Young…” Reviewed @ The Fix

    by  • May 29, 2008 • WRITING • 4 Comments

    What a lovely review of my story Val Grimm has posted at The Fix as part of a review of the July ’08 Asimov’s SF: Think about the first time you discovered science fiction you enjoyed; remember the wonder and joy you felt, the sort of sensation that makes you twelve years old again....

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    Linux/Nethead Injokery

    by  • May 27, 2008 • WRITING • 2 Comments

    I haven’t actually been working on “A Killing in Burma” lately — the semester has kind of turned into a swarm of bumblebees and I haven’t had much time to do anything besides school stuff — but I did get a little work done on my draft of “Ten Spikes and a Hammer,” a...

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    Haeinsa Security, and the Chinese Earthquake

    by  • May 25, 2008 • PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    Haeinsa is the temple where the Tripitaka Koreana, carved meticulously on wooden plates, is stored. It’s a major site in Korea as far as heritage goes. I wish I’d photographed the info plate in front of the woodblock storage area, because it was more than a little amusing. It explained how the Buddhist scriptures...

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    Drunken Suit + KTX = Not Fun

    by  • May 24, 2008 • KOREA, TRAVELS • 0 Comments

    I’m on the KTX from Busan to Seoul now. The train actually offers an Internet connection for a flat rate of W1000 (a little less than a dollar US)… if you’re a Korean citizen running Internet Explorer on Windows, that is. Foreigners running Linux will have to have a dual boot and a Korean...

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