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Tag: difficult stories

About That Dragon, Cancer

I thought I’d share some thoughts about the game That Dragon, Cancer and my experience of it.

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 gordsellar7 Comments

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Writing Projects Tracker

At the Mountains of Baekdu—revision 75%

A**hole Island—Final Edit/Rewrite 5%

Zymurgic, Book 1—revision stage 3 1%

RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

"The Incursus by Asimov-NN#71" is now appearing as a reprint in the February 2019 issue of Lightspeed. It goes live on 21 February, but you can read it anytime you like if you subscribe 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!

"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).

Buy it on newsstands or get a subscription from one of the sites listed here.

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

Buy it from one of the places listed here.

"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).

“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, & 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:

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.

TUMBL’D LATELY (MUSIC STUFF)

I’m not sure why I feel like I’ve heard this song a many times... May 13, 2018
Video May 13, 2018
Back in Jeonju, there was a place called “Saebyeok Kang” (”Dawn... May 12, 2018