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Tom Cho Tom Cho i(A12510 works by)
Born: Established: 1974 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Chinese
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1 The Whole Cannot Be Understood Without Reference to Its Holes《無缺亦無圓》 Tom Cho , 2024 single work prose
— Appears in: Heat (Series 3) , September no. 16 2024; (p. 83-87)
1 Robotic Feelings Tom Cho , 2020 extract novel
— Appears in: Liminal , October 2020;
1 y separately published work icon Kanganoulipo Ryan O'Neill , Julie Koh , Tom Cho , Eric Dando , Dave Drayton , Patrick Lenton , Nicolas Low , Jeffrey D. Phillips , Jane Rawson , Robert Skinner , Elizabeth Tan , William Yeoman , Australia : 2016-2017 24908180 2016 website prose The website of an experimental writing showcase.
1 Are You There, God? It Is I, Robot. Tom Cho , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 19 no. 5 2016;
1 How Can We Reconcile the Existence of Suffering with the Premise of a Good and Almighty God? Tom Cho , 2012 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 71 no. 1 2012; (p. 1-16)
'Picture it: Bay Z, ACME Robotics Testing Facility, Melbourne, 2240. A Manager of Robot Quality Assurance stands in silence, gazing upwards and all around at the chassis frame for a completely new type of robot. That Manager of Robot Quality Assurance is me and that chassis frame is for an unnamed robot that has become our company's top robot development priority.' (Author's abstract)
1 What Are the Attributes of God? Tom Cho , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 11 2011; (p. 17-20) The Best of The Lifted Brow. Volume One 2013; (p. 221-234)
1 Three Dinner Pieces Tom Cho , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Wordlines : Contemporary Australian Writing 2010; (p. 51-59)
1 Ask a Silly Question Tom Cho , Amanda Lohrey , Emily Maguire , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 14 August 2010; (p. 10-11)
Guests participating in the 2010 Melbourne Writers' Festival pose questions which they answer themselves. The non-Australian writers who contribute are Val MacDermid, Peter James, Elif Batuman and Barbara Trapido
1 Cock Rock Tom Cho , 2009 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Look Who's Morphing 2009; (p. 147-178)
1 My Life in China Tom Cho , 2009 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Look Who's Morphing 2009; (p. 111-113)
1 I, Robot Tom Cho , 2009 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Look Who's Morphing 2009; (p. 99-108)
The narrator decides to follow his mother's example and sign up for a government program that converts low-income earners into robots. Scientists determine that he is best suited to becoming a protocol droid. The only problem is, he also becomes a protocol droid with an anxiety problem. On an assignment at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, he follows 'in a tradition practised by many other robots and humans in history: that of seeming to go haywire, and then turning on one's masters and what they stand for.'
1 28 y separately published work icon Look Who's Morphing Tom Cho , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2009 Z1580990 2009 selected work short story (taught in 6 units)

Look Who's Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing stories in which, along with his extended family, the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music clips and video games, porn flicks and comics. He is Godzilla, a Muppet, and Whitney Houston's bodyguard; the Fonz, a robot, a Ford Bronco 4x4 - and, as a climax, a Gulliver-sized cock rock singer, played upon by an adoring troupe of sexy Lilliputians in short skirts and sailor suits and cheerleader outfits. Within these fantasies there is a deep intellectual and emotional engagement, a fundamental questioning of the nature of identity, and the way it constructs itself in a world dominated by the images of popular culture. – From the publisher's website.

1 Tom Cho: A ‘Responsive’ Interview Literary Minded Tom Cho , Angela Meyer (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Crikey , 18 June 2009;

In this 'interview,' Cho responds to diverse prompts and discusses topics including the writing process, mixing signals, and gender.

1 y separately published work icon Look Who's Morphing : A Collection of Fictions and an Exegesis Tom Cho , Victoria : 2009 6670877 2009 single work thesis

'This project's creative component is "Look Who's Morphing", a fiction collection that explores the theme of personal identity. The exegesis analyses an issue pertaining to the writer's creative process: what degree of directness was employed in the authorial identity in his creative work and how was this level of directness realised?' (Source: NLA.)

1 'No One Puts Baby in a Corner': Inserting My Self into the Text Tom Cho , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 45 2008; (p. 101-107)

Discussing his approach to writing the stories in Look Who's Morphing, Cho writes in this essay: 'I am not very interested in examining my engagement with popular culture in terms of popular cultural "references" or "allusions." In fact, rather than focusing on the insertion of popular cultural references in my collection, what especially strikes me about this collection is the literal insertion of my self into the text: in a range of stories from my collection, I appear in various "universes" derived from popular cultural texts/canons. [....] I am especially interested in examining the very act by which the writer enters the text, and the dynamics this act creates between writer and text.' The essay goes on to discuss 'this textual self-insertion as a method of describing my self (which includes my Asian-Australianness).'

1 AIYO! An Evil Group of Ninjas is Entering and Destroying a Call Centre!!! Tom Cho , 2007 single work short story humour fantasy
— Appears in: Verandah , no. 22 2007; (p. 23) Look Who's Morphing 2009; (p. 93-95)
1 Why My Family is the Way It Is Tom Cho , 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: The Sleepers Almanac 2007 : A Family Affair 2007; (p. 251)
1 Creative Responses To Transition Tom Cho , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Polare , July no. 72 2007;
1 Inserting Myself into the Story : Artistic Explorations of Popular Culture... and Identity Tom Cho , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Development Network 2000;
1 Why My Family Is the Way It Is Tom Cho , 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: The Sleepers Almanac 2007 : A Family Affair 2007; (p. 249-250)
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