Gord Sellar
Excerpt:
The cat miaowed, and stood there, staring. Waiting. "Why?" the monk asked, and started after the kitten. It responded by scurrying off into the brush, not too quickly or too far, and Mo-Sa trailed behind it, as he had done to other cats around the monastery during his childhood. Beyond a few old, dead trees, he found the cat miaowing again loudly and scratching itself against something sticking out of the ground. "What is it?" he asked the cat. It simply miaowed back at him, and stepped back as came closer to reveal some kind of iron spike that had been driven straight into the stone. Mo-Sa squatted and peered at it, brushing with with one hand to remove the few strands of cat-hair that clung there. It bore no rust, which meant it had not been exposed to the later summer rains. I had been driven in sometime during the autumn. Around the base of the spike, the smallest particles of stone remained in their original cracks. Inscriptions ran along its side. Some of the characters he recognized -- they were the same ones used in Chosŏn, taken from the Middle Kingdom -- but interspersed with these were some other, strange kind of writing. He could not read it, but he knew enough to recognize it. Wae, he thought, and dread emanated through him. The Wae -- had they crossed the Eastern Sea in their steam-powered warships, to drive spikes into mountains? Had their warmongering Emperor, Mutsuhito, gone mad? Could they be such fools as that?from "The Broken Pathway" in The Immersion Book of SF, Volume 1
Bio:
Gord Sellar is a Canadian who has been living in South Korea since 2002. He attended Clarion West in 2006, and since then his work has appeared in Asimov's SF, Subterranean, Clarkesworld, Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, and other publications.
Publications:
My last few publications:"Improperly Prepared Blowfish," Machine of Death, edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki (free PDF version of the book available here; if you like it click on the image and order yourself a copy)"The Broken Pathway," The Immersion Book of SF, Volume 1, edited by Carmelo Rafala"The Bodhisattvas," Subterranean Magazine, guest edited by Jonathan Strahan"Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)," Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF, edited by Jetse de Vries (online excerpt available here, or listen to the podcast at Starship Sofa)"Alone With Gandhari," Clarkesworld (with podcast)"Of Melei, of Ulthar," Clarkesworld
Writing Description:
Mostly SF, sometimes weird stuff. Occasionally critical work on SF.
Writing Goals:
Well, two of last summer's three papers have been accepted for publication, if I have my tracking right. But this summer, I'll be working on a novel I started writing in 2009, and started thinking over years before. The working title is, A Killing in Burma and I want a complete draft by the end of summer. So...most of a complete draft is my goal for the Write-a-thon. Let's say, 50,000-60,000 words of draft added to the 10,000-ish I had before.People who sponsor me extra-generously will enjoy (or suffer) a Tuckerization in the novel, or at their option can instead have a major character in a short story (to be written later) named after them.
Website:
gordsellar.com
