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Month: March 2012

Whew…

This entry is part 12 of 15 in the series Making "The Music of Jo Hyeja"

I have gotten so much done in the last couple of weeks that it simply isn’t funny: the semi-final draft of an article with a swiftly approaching deadline the final draft of a new short story submitted to Bibliotheca Fantastica a revision of the subtitles for our film, “The Music of Jo Hyeja” But there’s […]

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March 31, 2012October 19, 2013 gordsellar1 Comment

The Music of Jo Hyeja: Done!

This entry is part 11 of 15 in the series Making "The Music of Jo Hyeja"

I was so busy last week, I forgot to mention: The Music of Jo Hyeja is finished, finished, finished. Well, sort of. The film itself is finished, and could be screened tomorrow, as it stands. Of course, we still need to make a trailer, and a poster, but the film was finished in time for […]

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March 28, 2012October 19, 2013 gordsellar2 Comments

Ze Art Off Traduction…

Earlier this semester, I noticed a senior student had signed up for an intro-level conversation course. I asked her what she was doing there, and she just kind of shrugged. When I told her that she and I both knew she didn’t need the course, she told me it was a requirement for graduation. Now, […]

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March 26, 2012March 31, 2012 gordsellar2 Comments

Blogging Pound’s The Cantos: Canto V

This entry is part 8 of 56 in the series Blogging Pound's The Cantos

This post is one in a series of readings I’m posting of each poem in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, one by one (so far — I may deal with a few at a time on occasion). They are not exactly typical readings of the poems, so much as readings I’m doing with a specific research […]

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March 26, 2012May 14, 2014 gordsellarNo Comments

80L Brewday…

For the last couple of weekends, The Magpie Brewing Company (with the support of Homebrew Korea and the inimitable Bill Miller) has hosted some 80L brewdays. The idea is: you take four homebrewers, get them together, and host a brewday at their brewing space, which has the equipment for you to brew up to 80L […]

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March 26, 2012March 30, 2012 gordsellarNo Comments

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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.

The current issue of Asimov's SF includes my novella "Winter Wheat", an epic of gene-hackers and small-farmer resistance, as well as a tale of growing up in a near-future Saskatchewan.

Among the many places to get a copy or subscribe, I recommend the publisher's website, which offers print issues and subscriptions, as well as digital.

"Alone With Gandhari" has been reprinted in David Higgins' Bloody Red Nose: 15 Fears of a Clown.

Available at Amazon (US/UK), Kobo, or Barnes & Noble (nook/print).

The June 2019 issue of Clarkesworld contains both a translation of Myung-Hoon Bae's "The Peppers of GreenScallion" (translated by Jihyun Park and me) and my interview with Korean SF author Soyeon Jeong.

Support Clarkesworld either with a subscription (Amazon.com | Itunes | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Weightless Books) or by pledging at the magazine's Patreon.

My co-translation with Jihyun Park of Soyeon Jeong's short story "The Flowering" is in Clarkesworld 151 (April 2019).

Support Clarkesworld either with a subscription (Amazon.com | Itunes | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Weightless Books) or by pledging at the magazine's Patreon.

"The Incursus by Asimov-NN#71" is now appearing as a reprint in the February 2019 issue of Lightspeed.

Subscribe to Lightspeed or purchase an ebook edition of the issue.

Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of Korean Science Fiction collects the work of many of South Korea's science fiction luminaries. It contains two stories and an essay I cotranslated with my wife Jihyun Park, as well as third story the translation of which I revised.

Buy it from Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | Whatthebook (in Korea) | Kyobo Books (in Korea)

"Vol De Nuit" is in Broken Eye Books' Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird is available now!

Get it in Kindle/Paperback formats at Amazon.com or order a Paperback or Hardcover straight from the publisher!

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"Prodigal" was reprinted in The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster, published by AudioText. Audiobook version read by Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari and Henrietta Meire.

Buy it now in a range of formats: Audiobook: Audible; Ebook: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or iTunes; Trade paperback format: Createspace; Audio CD collection: Audiotext.

"Prodigal" was reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin's Griffin, July 2017).

Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.jp, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo, eBooks.com, Google Play, Books-A-Million, Indiebound, or Powells.

"Focus" was recently published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May/June 2017).

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"Prodigal" was reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Neil Clarke. (Night Shade Books, April 2017).

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"Prodigal" (Czech translation by Ľudovít Plata) appeared in XB-1 (06.2017).

Il paese della giovinezza. (Future Fiction: 25 March 2017). Digital collection of short stories in Italian translation. (Edited by Francesco Verso, translated to Italian by Fabiano Fiore, cover art by Chiara Topo.)

Available at Amazon.it or from the publisher's website. 

"Prodigal" appeared in Chinese translation in Science Fiction World (03.2017).

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“Prodigal” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2016.

Get a copy on newsstands, at Amazon.com, direct from Analog, or through one of these digital vendors listed on Analog's website: Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Google Play | Magzter | Kobo

“The Incursus, by Asimov-NN#71” at Big Echo, Summer 2016.

“ἱερὸς γάμος [Hieros Gamos]” in Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis. Martian Migraine Press. 23 May 2016.

Buy a print or digital copy direct from Martian Migraine (worldwide shipping available), or at Amazon.com.

“The Bernoulli War” reprinted in Forever. Issue 14, March 2016.

Buy this issue from:Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo, Weightless Books, Wyrm Publishing.

"Beyond Mere Lotophagi." (A Scenario Generator for Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Other FRPG Games.) Green Devil Face #6. (March 2016)

Available in Print from the LotFP webshop. Print edition sold out, but coming soon in digital format!

"Sunshine," free to read online at Cosmos, 4 January 2016.


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.
  • What I've read this year.
  • TV/movies I've watched this year.
  • Older watchlists on my IMDB account.

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