Plenty of SF readers who come through here aren’t necessarily interested in Korean history and culture in general, so it’s unlikely they’d be listeners to the Korea Society Podcast. However, for those who have an interest in global SF and pop culture, there’s a podcast you might want to check out over there. It’s a recording of a talk given way back in February 2008 by Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, a prof at Notre Dame. The talk is titled “Our Toys, Our Selves: Robot Taekwon V and South Korean Identity.” (That’s a direct link to the MP3, so if you …
Month: April 2009
People Looking for Good Stories
I’m working on a few things, for these and others, but I figured I’d mention them, since readers might have something that fits: Jetse de Vries’ Shine Anthology submissions period is crawling closer. He’s looking for Optimistic SF set in the near future — see the Shine Anthology Blog for more information about what “Optimistic” means, and the anthology guidelines here. He’s also taking twitterfic submissions for the Outshine feed. Ahmed A. Khan is looking for fiction for two anthologies, one titled “Cheer Up, Universe” (feel-good SF), and the other a YA (pre-teen) anthology titled “Fun Times in Andromeda”. More …