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Month: February 2014

“Portraits” Completed, and More Thoughts on Musescore

I mentioned recently that I was working on digitizing my compositions from back in my music student days. Well, I finished another piece earlier, and decided to upload it tonight: Portraits for Two Bass Clarinets (1995) by Gord Sellar (Complete score in PDF format) There’s a recording of the premiere performance of the piece (and, […]

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February 28, 2014 gordsellarNo Comments

Articles on Korean SF in _list Magazine

This entry is part 62 of 70 in the series SF in South Korea

For those interested in South Korean SF, but unable to read it themselves (like me) you will be interested in the little treasure trove of articles I’ve just run across on the subject. They were published as part of the Summer 2013 issue of the magazine _List, which appears to be published by the Literature […]

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February 28, 2014May 2, 2015 gordsellar2 Comments

Another Update, Another Theme Borked

Well, I updated WordPress. Like clockwork, another stylesheet bit the dust: fonts were all whacked out, menus not working properly, and who knows what else. It was a bit disappointing, but it seems inevitable these days, and at least replacement templates that (mostly) work straight out of the box are common enough. I’ve settled for […]

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February 26, 2014November 13, 2014 gordsellar2 Comments

Brief Note-(ation)

UPDATE (28 Feb 2014): Digitization completed. The file is available here, along with my comments on the software and more. UPDATE (27 Feb. 2014):  Well, I’ve finished the first movement, (sparse) dynamics and all. Here it is!  When I’ve finished all three movements, I’ll update again, combine the PDFs into a single file, and add […]

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February 24, 2014February 28, 2014 gordsellar3 Comments

The Really Intractable Thing: North Korea, Climate Change, and Why We’re Failing

Over at The Week, a depressing piece on the horrors up North, titled “North Korea isn’t Nazi Germany — in some ways, it’s worse”: Unless North Korea invades or bombs another country, or China gives up its patronage of the Hermit Kingdom, it’s hard to see much concrete coming out of the report. Paul Whitefield at […]

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February 24, 2014February 26, 2014 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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