Books, Books, Books
Posted on June 28, 2009
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For those keeping track (and I will have to update the site soon, but not today):
- The Year’s Best SF 26 edited by Gardner Dozois is available as of a few days ago, and contains my story, “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues.” My story Pahwakhe also got an Honorable Mention too… (I don’t know if anything else did, I haven’t seen the book yet as I’m all the way over in Korea).
(Seeing my name in that list of authors blew my mind… me? On a list with those people, each of which is… wow. Blew my mind. Blows my mind now, still.)
- This winter, Apex Book Company will be publishing a collection of fiction from its website titled Descended From Darkness; it contains, among a bunch of other excellent pieces of fiction, my short story “Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands” which appeared on the site back in February. If you order it from this page, Apex will generously give me a cut of the profits for that copy sold, so hey, don’t hold back, my friends!
- My story “The Bohisattvas” will be appearing online sometime soonish, in a place I’m flattered to have a chance to have my work appear, along with stories by more people whose work absolutely blows my mind. Another honor, about which I’ll ramble more when it happens. A Korean translation of the story will be published later on this year as well — the first translation of a story by me to appear in Korea. This is especially happy news as it is a story I first began working on in 1999 or 2000. A rough first attempt was a major part of my MA thesis, but this is a radical rewrite of the story with only a few feelings, characters, and themes surviving into the present.
More story news on the way, but for now? I have a 마감 (deadline) that involves writing, but not really fiction. I’ll say more about that later, I think…
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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.-
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Do you mean St. Martin’s don’t comp you the Dozois Year’s Best? What a ripoff :)
Another semester has passed us by, and you’ll head to Canada for the summer and the Worldcon. that coffee or beer will have to take place next semester… :P
Junsok,
Maybe they did send me a comp copy, but I wouldn’t have received it yet anyway… it always takes longer over here!
So I’m dying of curiosity to get a look at it. I’ll get a chance in a week, though. :)
And yeah, we didn’t manage the beer/coffee. Though I do have something I’d like to give you, before I go. Even if it means just leaving it in your mailbox at the depatyment office? Little thing called a bottle of my homebrewed stout… for the batch, she turned out good!