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Month: July 2010

The Trickiness of Explaining Pregnancy Denial and Infanticide

UPDATE (5 Aug 2010): Hat tip to David Garnier, whose comment got gobbled up by the ether monsters, but who pointed me to the admission of the woman in the case described, who says it actually isn’t pregnancy denial. Nope, she just doesn’t like doctors. (And that’s why she committed infanticide a bunch of times? […]

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July 30, 2010August 5, 2010 gordsellarNo Comments

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Well, it took me almost a decade–due mostly to lack of interest, I’ll admit, since it’s less than 600 pages of text in total–but I finally have finished Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy.” I know there are more books in the series, but all I ever intended to read was that main, original trilogy. I read the […]

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July 26, 2010February 1, 2012 gordsellar4 Comments

War With the Newts by Karel Čapek

Well, it’s been a while but I’m back with a review of a book I recently finished. I don’t know if I’ll manage to review all of the books I’ve read this year — so far, there’s six this month alone, though one of those I’m reviewing for a newspaper– but I quite enjoyed this […]

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July 25, 2010August 19, 2019 gordsellarNo Comments

Why, Revisited: The KOFAC Presentation

On the afternoon of Thursday, July 22nd I spoke at a short SF-related seminar for KOFAC (The Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity) in Gangbyeon. I was asked to lay say a bit about how SF writers choose what to write about. Basically, to answer that question I felt I had to […]

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July 23, 2010May 13, 2014 gordsellar14 Comments

Lost

I’m not sure I can really be counted as a fan of the show Lost… I watched it somewhat obsessively into Season 3, and then during Seasons 4, 5, 6 waited till I could watch everything in one fell swoop or, um, gulp, perhaps. My ex and I used to watch it together, and when […]

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July 21, 2010February 1, 2012 gordsellar10 Comments

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Isle of Joy. If Jodorowsky directed The Tempest for A24. But an RPG! Sign up for the Kickstarter here:

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Writing Projects Tracker

At the Mountains of Baekdu—revision 75%
A**hole Island—Final Edit/Rewrite 100%
Zymurgic, Book 1—revision stage 3 1%
String Quartet #1 75%

RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

EU Webstore | US Webstore US Webstore | PDF at DTRPG

My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.


See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.

Stuff to Read

An annex of free stuff to read: stories, poems, and nonfiction.

SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS


ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

Dabang Band/다방밴드

Check out the Dabang Band website:

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My SoundCloud Stuff

You can also check out a lot of my own music over on Soundcloud.

CONSUMPTIVE

  • What I'm reading now.
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