SF Interview With - Gord Sellar

"Q1. As a Canadian, you has lived teaching English literature in a korean univ. over 7 years and also written Science Fiction. I heard You had been nominated in John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009 Worldcon. Would you explain briefly about your nominated title?



Yes, I'm Canadian and I've been in Korea since December 2001--actually, it was right at the end of the month, I think I arrived on December 30th 2001. So at the end of December 2010, I'll have been in Korea for eight years!

I had the honor of being nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2009. That nomination wasn't on the basis of any particular story, but rather on the basis of everything I'd published until then as a "new writer." I suspect that it was mostly my two stories in Asimov's Science Fiction that got me nominated, since the other places I'd published stories were, I think, less widely read by voters at the time. The less famous of those two stories ("Dhuluma No More") is forthcoming in Korean translation in Futurscope, the "mook magazine" which will soon be put out by the Seoul SF&F Library as I understand it."


4 out of 5

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