This is a complete list of all my fiction, verse, and nonfiction publications, produced screenplays, media appearances, conference talks and presentations, interviews, commercial writing (such as game projects) and digital humanities work.
- Forthcoming Work
- Tabletop RPG Writing
- Fiction Books
- Short Fiction
- Translations
- Screenplays
- Poems
- Articles/Essays/Interviews
- Book Reviews
- Academic Papers
- Conference Presentations & Talks
- Textbooks
- Interviews & Profiles
- Writing-Related Awards & Nominations
- Digital Humanities Work
- Other
Forthcoming Publications:
- Not Yet Gods (short story collection), by Djuna, translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar. Forthcoming from Kaya Press.
Tabletop RPG Writing:
- Isle of Joy. (Full length adventure setting.) Knight Owl Publishing. 2024.
- “So, You’ve Angered a Sea God.” (Scenario generator.) Deluge. (Zine.) Knight Owl Publishing, 2023.
- Koryo Hall of Adventures OSR Conversions Document. OSR system conversion document. Koryo Hall of Adventures, October 2020.
- “Appendix K.” (Inspirational blog post series for RPGs set in a Korea-inspired fantasy world.) Koryo Hall of Adventures, 2020.
- Fermentvm Nigrvm Dei Sepvlti. (OSR Adventure.) Lamentations of the Flame Princess, July 2020.
- “Beyond Mere Lotophagi.” (Scenario generator.) Included in Green Devil Face #6, published by Lamentations of the Flame Princess, February 2016.
Fiction Books:
- Il paese della giovinezza. (The Country of the Young). Edited by Francesco Verso; translation to Italian by Fabiano Fiore, cover art by Chiara Topo. 25 March 2017: Future Fiction/Mincione Edizioni.
- (A short fiction collection in Italian translation. Contains the following short stories: “The Country of the Young” (Interzone 219, November 2008), “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report by Organic” (Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010), “The Bodhisattvas” (Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2010)
“Alone with Gandhari” (Clarkesworld #42, March 2010)) - Available at Amazon.it or from the publisher’s website. Read more here.
- (A short fiction collection in Italian translation. Contains the following short stories: “The Country of the Young” (Interzone 219, November 2008), “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report by Organic” (Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010), “The Bodhisattvas” (Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2010)
Published Short Fiction:
- “Sojourn.” (Short Story.) A City of Han: Stories by Expat Writers in Seoul and Other Cities of South Korea. Edited by Sollee Bae. FWS Publishing, 2020.
- “Winter Wheat.” (Novella.) Asimov’s Science Fiction. September/October 2019.
- Shortlisted finalist, Asimov’s Science Fiction Reader’s Poll for best Novella (2020)
- Reprint forthcoming in The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4, edited by Allan Kaster (Barker, TX: Audiotext, Summer 2020).
- “Vol de Nuit.” (Short Story.) Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird. Broken Eye Books, September 2017.
- “Focus.” (Short story.) Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June 2017.
- “Prodigal.” (Short story.) Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2016. (Cover story.)
- Chinese translation appeared in Science Fiction World (03.2017).
- Reprinted in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2, edited by Neil Clarke (Night Shade Books, April 2017).
- Czech translation (by Ľudovít Plata) appeared in XB-1 (June 2017).
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin’s Griffin, July 2017).
- Reprinted in The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 edited by Allan Kaster (Audiotext, July 2017).
- “The Incursus, by Asimov-NN#71″ (Short story.) in Big Echo, Summer 2016 (August 3rd).
- Notable Story mention in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, guest edited by Charles Yu, Series editor John Joseph Adams. (3 October 2017, Mariner Books.)
- Reprinted in Lightspeed, issue 105 (February 2019).
- “ἱερὸς γάμος [Hieros Gamos]” in Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis. Martian Migraine Press. 23 May 2016.
- “Sunshine” (Short story.) Cosmos. 4 January 2016.
- “The Spurned Bride’s Tears, Centuries Old, in the Rain” (Short story.) in issue 5 of Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, October 2015.
- “The Return of Sarnath” (Short story.) in Cthulhu Fhtagn!, edited by Ross Lockhart, 15 August 2015. (Published by Word Horde.)
- “Stars Fell on Alabama.” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2014.
- “The Rite.” Bibliotheca Fantastica, edited by
Claude Lalumière andDon Pizarro, published by Dagan Books (July 2013). - “Toxoplasmosis of the Brain; Candidiasis of the Esophagus; Candidiasis of the Trachea; Candidiasis of the Bronchi; Candidiasis of the Lungs; Kaposi’s Sarcoma; Pneumonia; Tuberculosis; Stab Wound in the Belly; and Bus Accident,” in This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death. (Eds. Matthew Bennardo, David Malki, and Ryan North. Published July 2013.)
- “The Bernoulli War.” Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2012.
- Reprinted in Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 Edition.
- Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois, 2013.
- Reprinted in Forever Magazine, Issue 14, March 2016.
- “Empty of Words, The Page.” in Black Static 27 (Feb-March 2012).
- “The Clockworks of Hanyang.” in The Immersion Book of Steampunk, ed. Gareth D. Jones. Sept. 2011.
- Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures, edited by Sean Wallace (Fall 2014).
- “Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika.” Clarkesworld #58 (July 2011).
- Podcast narrated by Kate Baker.
- Reprinted in Clarkesworld: Year 5, 2013.
- “Improperly Prepared Blowfish.” Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki. Bearstache Press, 13 Oct. 2010.
- Podcast by Machine of Death, Jan 2011. (Narrated by Brett Donnelly.)
- “The Broken Pathway.” (novelette.) The Immersion Book of SF Vol 1, edited by Carmelo Rafala, 30 Sept. 2010.
- “The Bodhisattvas.” Subterranean Magazine Spring 2010, guest edited by Jonathan Strahan.
- “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report By Organic.” Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, edited by Jetse de Vries. Published 31 March 2010.
- Read an excerpt here.
- Podcast adaptation by Starship Sofa here.
- Reprinted in Italian translation in Il paese della giovinezza (2017). See Books section above for more information.
- “Alone With Gandhari.” Clarkesworld #42, March 2010.
- Podcast by Clarkesworld (read by Kate Baker), March 1st, 2010.
- Reprinted in Clarkesworld: Year 4 (2013) and in Italian translation in Il paese della giovinezza (2017). See Books section above for more information.
- Reprinted in Bloody Red Nose: 15 Fears of a Clown, edited by David Higgins, September 2019.
- “Of Melei, of Ulthar.” Clarkesworld, Oct. 2009.
- Podcast reprint in Far-Fetched Fables 24 (30 Sept. 2014).
- Included on the Locus 2009 Recommended Reading List.
- Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection.
- Reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu II, edited by Ross Lockhart and published by Night Shade Books.
- “Cai and Her Ten Thousand Husbands.” (no longer online.) Apex Online, 3 Feb 2009.
- Reprinted in Descended From Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. 1, edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth.
- Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year 2009 (Vol. 2).
- Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection.
- “The Country of the Young.” Interzone 219, November 2008.
- Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- Reprinted in Italian translation in Il paese della giovinezza (2017). See Books section above for more information.
- “Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang.” Tesseracts Twelve, 2008.
- Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- Reprinted in Superheroes, edited by Rich Horton, 2013.
- “Dhuluma No More.” Asimov’s SF, October-November double issue, 2008. (Fictionwise eMag available here.) (Podcast narration of the story by David Munger, podcast by Starship Sofa — 8 Nov. 2008)
- Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- Korean-language version published in 미래경 (Futuroscope) #3.
- “Lester Young and the Jupiter’s Moons’ Blues.” Asimov’s SF, July 2008. (Fictionwise eMag available here.)
- Podcast by Starship Sofa, 25 March 2009.
- Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- Reprinted in Starship Sofa Stories (free download here!).
- Reprinted in Enter A Future: Fantastic Tales from Asimov’s Science Fiction. Ebook, published 15 Dec. 2010. Available from Amazon.com.
- Reprinted in Forever Magazine 53, June 2019. (See also here.)
- “Pahwakhe“ (defunct link) — Fantasy magazine, 21 January 2008.
- Podcast “reprint” at Podcastle, 2 May 2008.)
- Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.
- Honorable mention in Best Horror of the Year 1, edited by Ellen Datlow.
- “The Egan Thief” — Flurb #4, Fall/Winter 2007.
- “Dyscrasia” — Postcards from Hell, September, 2007.
- Read for free in my Stuff to Read subsite.
- Podcast by Toasted Cake, Vol. 44, 28 Oct. 2012.
- “Junk” — Nature, Vol 448: 2 August, 2007 (PDF also available, though you probably need to be in a library to access either one.)
- “touch.” In Medias Res Vol. 6, Fall 1996.
Translations:
- “How Alike Are We” by Bo-Young Kim. Translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar. Clarkesworld 157, October 2019.
- “The Peppers of GreenScallion” by Myung-Hoon Bae. Translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar. Clarkesworld 153, June 2019.
- Excerpts read and discussed by Paul Matthews on Check It Out! (Podcast Episode. Arirang.com, 8 February 2023.)
- “The Flowering” by Soyeon Jeong. Translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar. Clarkesworld 151, April 2019.
- In Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of Korean Science Fiction, edited by Sunyoung Park and Sang Joon Park. (Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2019.)
- “Readymade Bodhisattva” by Sunghwan Park. Translation by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar.
- “Our Banished World” by Chang-gyu Kim. Translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar.
- “Roadkill” by Park Min-gyu. Original translation by Esther Song. Revised Translation by Esther Song and Gord Sellar.
- “A Brief History History of South Korean SF Fandom” by Sang Joon Park. Translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar.
- “An Evolutionary Myth” by Boyoung Kim. (“진화신화.”) Translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar. Clarkesworld 104, May 2015.
- Reprint forthcoming in a collection of the author’s work to be published by Kaya Books.
Screenplays:
- “대리전”/”Daerijeon.” Scriptwriter/Adaptation. (Story by Djuna.) Dir. Jihyun Park. Short film. Forthcoming 2013. Brutal Rice Productions.
- “자연선텍설”/”Environmental Pressures & Species Adaptation.” Scriptwriter, Co-Story-Writer. Short film (11 min). Dir. Jihyun Park. Brutal Rice Productions, 2013. More info and content here.
- “The Music of Jo Hyeja”/”조혜자의 음악.” Scriptwriter. Short film (21 min.) Dir. Jihyun Park. Starring Bunhong Lee, Yunnam Park. Brutal Rice Productions, 2012. (More info & trailer.)
- “Shocking Report: Foreigners Dating Koreans Conspiracy!” / “충격보기: 외국인과 교제음모!” Web short (6.5 min.) Dir. Jihyun Park. Brutal Rice Productions, 2012. (More info & video.)
Poems:
- “Fix.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. July 2012.
- “Dadeumie Sori” and “Ode to the Competent.” Diet Soap #4 — Slavery. (2009.) Electronic/print edition available here.
- “Tian Zhu Jiao: The Teaching of the Lord of Heaven.” Diet Soap #3 — Sabotage. (1 March 2009). Electronic/print edition available here or get a FREE PDF — see here.
- “Groan” in Outlanders (zine, published by Scott Burgeson), December 2008. Read for free in my Stuff to Read subsite.
- Two poems from The Dänikbharata¹: “Shivji” (originally “Shivaji” [sic]) and “Krishna, At His Height” in Matrix 59, Fall 2001. Read for free in my Stuff to Read subsite: Shivji and The Elvis of the Ganges, At His Height (in 1968)
- “Trauerspiel” in Headlight Anthology, Volume 4, Montreal, 2001. Read for free on my Stuff to Read subsite.
- “mother ocean tear” and “ne touche pas” — odin swings. Saskatoon, 1997. Read for free on my Stuff to Read subsite.
- “My Songs,” “‘Trane,” “Liberation,” and “When in the Flesh” — Waking Slow 3. Saskatoon, SK: 1992.
- “Liberation.” Windscript 10.2. Regina, SK: Fall 1992.
- “The Pathway Home” and “Nanny Goat” — Waking Slow 2. Saskatoon, SK: 1991.
Articles/Essays/Interviews:
- “Unpredictable Changes and Surprises: A Conversation With Djuna.” by Gord Sellar and Jihyun Park. Clarkesworld 187, April 2022.
- “My World Wobbled and Changed: An Interview with Soyeon Jeong.” by Gord Sellar. Clarkesworld 153, June 2019.
- “The cinematic politics of Bong Joon-ho.” Arena Magazine, 134 (Feb-March 2015). pg.46-49.
- “Thinking Big: RPGs, Teaching in Korea, and the Subversive Idea of Agency.” The WyrdCon 2012 Companion Book, edited by Sarah Lynne Bowman and Aaron Vanek. (21 Dec. 2012.)
- “Unevenly Distributed: The Mudang’s Dance.” Arc 1.02 (May 2012).
- Reprinted in Compass Cultura Issue #1 (August 2014).
- “한국에서 SF의 소외에 관한 소고.” (A Few Observations Regarding the Marginality of SF in Korea.) 미래경 ([Miraekyung] Futuroscope) #3 (Spring 2012). Miracle Books/42 Press.
- “On the Translation of Dreams.” Apex Blog, 5 June 2009. (On genre literature/culture and translation of same, focusing on Korean SF and horror.)
- “SF in South Korea Today.“ The Shine Anthology weblog, 9 April 2009.
- “Like, Stabbed by a Love Triangle, Dude,” “The Xanax King and his Wife’s Painted Hoo-Has,” and “Homeless Bob and Lester the Black Guy” (creative nonfiction) — Outlanders (zine, published by Scott Burgeson), December 2008.
- “How Candle Girl and V Took on 2MB.” Clarkesworld, October 2008.
- “Fending Off Discontentment.” The Korea Herald, 25 September 2008.
- “XY.” Column on male perspective for Cahoots Magazine. Spring 2008 – Summer 2009.
- “The Fairer Blog.” Column on women bloggers for in Cahoots Magazine which ran from Winter 2005-Summer 2007. (See here for complete listing of my Cahoots contributions.)
- “Derren Brown and the Human Mind.” (article), Cahoots, Fall 2006.
- “The Male Gaze.” (article), Cahoots, Spring 2006.
- 뒤섞여 있음의 기쁨. (“Joyful Conflagration”) Translated by Juhng Chullsung. in Munhwa Journal (Culture Journal), Fall, 2005. A review of the Jeonju Sori Festival from a foreigner’s perspective. Korean article archive inaccesible, but text partially viewable here. Original text in English here.
- “Gord Sellar Reflects On the Technoscape.” (frontispiece). Matrix 60, Montreal, 2002. (PDF)
Book Reviews:
- “Across Oceans of Time and Incalculable Change.” (A review of I’m Waiting for You by Bo-Young Kim, translated by Sophie Bowman and Sung Ryu.) Korean Literature Now. (5 June 2024.)
- “Korea in 1910.” (A review of the novel Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners by Kim Namcheon, translated by Charles La Shure.) Kyoto Journal 92 (September 2018).
- “Expat Japanese and the Big Apple.” (A review of Olga Kanzaki Sooudi’s “Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-reinvention on the World Stage.”) Kyoto Journal 86, July 2016.
- “Thoughtful Juxtaposition.” (A review of Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan, edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington.) Kyoto Journal 84, December 2015.
- “Examining Expats.” (A review of Lotusland, by David Joiner.) Kyoto Journal 84, December 2015.
- “Eclectic, Fascinating, and Troubling…” (A review of The Korean Popular Culture Reader, edited by Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe) Kyoto Journal 82 (1 May 2015), pg. 173-3-74.
- “Magic, Weirdness, and the Supernatural.” (A review of Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, by Kelly Luce.) Kyoto Journal 80 (25 July 2014), pg. 210-11.
- The Crane Wife. (A review of The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness.) Cascadia Subduction Zone. 4.2: 20 April 2014.
- “Another Wild Ride on the Speculative Side.” (Book review of Speculative Japan 2: “The Man Who Watched the Sea” and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction, edited by Ed. Lipsett.) Kyoto Journal 78: 11 Nov. 2013.
- “Minjok Mama Madness! and Other Fairytales From North of the 49th Parallel.” (A review of B.R. Myers’ The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters.) Kyoto Journal #77 (25 May 2013).
- Colonial Japan and the first ‘Korean Wave.’ (A review of Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945, by E. Taylor Atkins.) Japan Times, 10 April 2011.
- S. Korea riding a cinematic wave. (A review of The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs, by Jinhee Choi.) Japan Times, 10 Oct. 2010
Academic Papers:
- Sellar, Gord. “Politics & Ecology on the Korean Left: Anti-Americanism and Environmental Dystopia in The Host.” Arena Journal,No. 35/36, 2011: [217]-232.
- Sellar, Gord. “Another Undiscovered Country: Culture, Reception, and the Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea.” Acta Koreana Vol 14, No. 1 (Korean Cinema Theme Issue): June 2011.
Copies of these papers are available at Academia.edu.
Conference Presentations & Talks:
- Another Future: Science Fiction and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in South Korea at University of California (Riverside). Invited guest and panelist discussing Korean science fiction. 22 February 2019.
- South Korean Sci-Fi and Transnational Technocultures at the University of Southern California (Dornsife). Invited guest, panelist on Korean SF, and performed reading of Park Seong-Hwan’s “Readymade Bodhisttva.” 20 February 2019.
- “Lighting A Million Fires: How Creative Media Projects and the Net Should Change TEFL Forever” presented at KAMALL conference, Hankuk University of Foreign Languages, 25 Sept. 2010.
- “SF and Cultural Studies in the Korean Classroom.” Paper presented at WorldCon 2010 (Sept. 2010): Melbourne, Australia.
- “Politics, Ecology on the Korean Left: Anti-Americanism and Environmental Dystopia in The Host.” Presented at Utopias 4 (Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe), Aug. 2010: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
- “Why Science Fiction?” Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity (KOFAC) Café Convergence #21. July 2010.
- “Reading the Singularity: Towards the Topology of a Concept Across Speculative Discourses.” Presented at the 51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) conference in St. Louis, Missouri, 13 November 2009.
- “Another Undiscovered Country: An Analysis of the Effects of Culture on the Reception and Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea Through The Examination of 21st Century Korean SF Cinema.” (Alt. link for those without Hangeul on their PCs.) Presented at the 4th International Congress of Korean Studies.
Textbooks & Educational Writing:
- Reading Street, Vols. 1-3. Co-authored with Haeyoung Kim. Didimdol Books, March 2010. See the book profiles at the publisher’s site.
- My short educational story, “Refuge”, was published in the Refugees & Exiles Teaching Packet published by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank in April 2004. Module 1, pages 3-4 of this PDF. It was a piece of fiction that introduced some themes related to the problems and dangers faced by young refugees and exiles.
Interviews & Profiles:
- Fantasy in Translation. (Interviewee, Podcast Episode.) Imaginary Worlds. Eric Molinsky. 12 November 2020.
- Future East Asia: Techno-traditions in Japan and Korea. (Panel Moderator, FutureCon 2020.)
- Episode 36: Korean Science Fiction: Imagining other worlds. (Interviewee, Podcast Episode.) How Do You Like it So Far? (Interview participant.) Dr. Henry Jenkins and Colin MacKay. University of Southern California (Dornsife.) Recorded 20 February 2019. Published 12 April 2019.
- “Cthulhusattva Author Interview—Gord Sellar.” Video interview by Scott Jones. 21 May 2016.
- Interview with Ko Jangwon, 22 August 2010. (Published on his blog.)
- An interview with Hong Insu. (First appeared as a feature article, in Korean, in e 미래경(Futuroscope) in Summer 2010. PDF.)
- An Interview with Charles Tan for SF Signal. (About the Shine anthology, among other things.) 14 April 2010.
- Profile at David Anthony Durham’s blog, 10 April 2009.
- Campbell Award Nominee Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal, 6 April 2009.
- Author Spotlight, Fantasy Magazine, interviewed by K. Tempest Bradford. 23 January 2008.
- Interview on English in Korea. Appeared in CUF Magazine, The Catholic University of Korea, Fall 2007.
Writing-Related Awards & Nominations:
- Shortlisted Finalist for the Asimov’s Science Fiction Reader’s Poll for best novella of 2019, for “Winter Wheat.” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2020.)
- Shortlisted Finalist for the AnLab Reader’s Award for best short story in 2017, for “Focus.” (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2018.)
- Shortlisted Finalist for the AnLab Reader’s Award for best short story in 2017, for “Prodigal.” (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2017.)
- Finalist, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 2009.
- The Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship, 2006, granted in conjunction with the Clarion West Writing Workshop.
- Blogging the Cantos. (Blog post series: an idiosyncratic canto-by-canto reading of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos. Occasional but ongoing.)
- Science Fiction in South Korea. (Blog post series: chronicles the development of South Korea’s 21st Century science fiction fandom, literature, and cinema. Widely referenced and linked in the English-speaking world. Currently on semi-hiatus.)
Other:
Thesis:
My very imperfect MA thesis–a collection of short stories–is available online. I’m only including the link for completeness, though, to my shock, people out there are actually downloading the thing.
Reviews:
Reviews of my fiction are now excerpted on the individual story pages, which you can see here.