Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 10 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark tenth volume of what has been called "e;one of the most important projects to come out of the contemporary writing generation"e;, Philippine Speculative Fiction 10 features stories from the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction while blurring the boundaries of everything in between, with stories from new as well as established Filipino authors.
Download or read book Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005 2010 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are all born to a Filipino family; an monstrous nanny passes on her powers to her young gay ward; a family's freezer gets a surprise visitor; a young boy discovers how his brother turns into a superhero locked in an eternal struggle with the Forces of Chaos; a company makes a fortune selling diseases. The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005-2010 features thirty of the best fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories from the first five volumes of Philippine Speculative Fiction, published from 2005 to 2010.
Download or read book The Infinite Library and Other Stories written by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commanding force for Southeast Asian speculative fiction, THE INFINITE LIBRARY AND OTHER STORIES reimagines the pasts, presents, and futures of Filipinos and the world around them. This first North American edition features a never-before-anthologized story. "Fantastic and lyrical, like glimpses into the infinite potential of the universe."-Ken Liu, author of THE PAPER MENAGERIE AND OTHER STORIES Shortlisted for the 2018 International Rubery Book Award. Making his North American debut, Victor Fernando R. Ocampo in The Infinite Library and Other Stories shows why Southeast Asian speculative fiction is a force to be reckoned with. From a mysteriously timeless interior of a map shop to a space elevator thousands of miles away from the metropole, these 18 stories masterfully straddle manifold layers of Filipino history, identity, and mythology, reconstructing the past and conjuring new futures for the nation and region at large. Ocampo's transnational consciousness brilliantly navigates class, colonialism, and gender in formal experimentations of winning ingenuity. Threaded by the motif of libraries and books, this deliciously enigmatic and labyrinthine collection showcases the infinite power of imagination to mend and make anew.
Download or read book Lauriat written by Charles Tan and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filipinos and Chinese authors have a rich, vibrant literature when it comes to speculative fiction, the realms of the strange and fantastical. But what about the fiction of the Filipino-Chinese, who draw their roots from the folklore of both cultures? This is what Lauriat attempts to answer. Featuring stories that deal with voyeur ghosts, taboo lovers, a town that cannot sleep, the Chinese zodiac, and an exile that finally comes home, Lauriat covers a diverse selection of narratives from fresh, Southest Asian voices.
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 1 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A courtesan who secretly controls flame; A baby that eats soil; A professor tasked with proving the masculinity of a national hero; A quest to create a kite that reaches the stars. Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 1 is the first of several anthologies that showcases the rich variety of Philippine literature. Between these covers, you will find magic realism next to science fiction, traditional fantasy beside slipstream, and imaginary worlds rubbing shoulders with alternate Philippine history-demonstrating that the literature of the fantastic is alive and well in the Philippines.
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 2 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrying a monster and fishing for mermaids; Redeeming a demon in an Augustinian church; A girl drawn to a haunted river; Hunting giant Wyrms with a gunsaddle. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series showcases fantasy, science fiction, and horror written by Filipinos around the world.
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 9 written by Andrew Drilon and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young tikbalang auditions at the country's largest TV station; a priest travels the universe to officiate sacraments in outer space; a murdered girl returns unscathed to the home of her perpetrators. Magical realism, fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, and horror share the spotlight in the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, courtesy of the Filipino imagination.
Download or read book Diaspora Ad Astra written by Emil M. Flores and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction short stories.
Download or read book Bottle of Storm Clouds written by Eliza Victoria and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of morality in exploring alternate realities; goddesses of old, living in modern-day Philippine society; the flesh trade in a dystopic future; four childhood friends, taunting fate by crossing the line between life and death, and coming back again; a world where Justice is immediate, absolute, and therefore deemed perfect-these are but some of the ideas to have sprung from the mind of up-and-coming writer Eliza Victoria. In A Bottle of Storm Clouds, Victoria's first compilation of short fiction, her subjects are a mottled bunch; her characters, of all walks of life; her approaches, from all directions. But her stories all boil down to one question: "e;What if?"e;
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 7 written by Kate Osias and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartbroken youth discovers the first woman, Maganda, in a garden; The youngest, most beautiful of ten siblings gets sold as a bride to a Tiq'Barang; A segment of the Filipino population suddenly transforms to look like American celebrities. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series features fantasy and horror, science fiction and slipstream, and various types of stories found across the genre spectrum.
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 11 written by Kate Osias and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mecha diwata, skeletal romance, the doom of a superhero, loss that transcends time and space - Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 11 showcases horror, fantasy, science fiction, and more; the past intertwining with the future; and narratives interspersed with wonder and melancholy - demonstrating the rich variety of speculative fiction in the Philippines.
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 5 written by Nikki Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living the good life with your husband, an A.I. agent; a little boy's interview with Death; the mythic love of deities; Joseph and his "e;Immaculate Virgin"e; wife, Mary. Philippine Speculative Fiction is part of an anthology series that features stories from the genres of science fiction, horror, and fantasy from the creative imagination of the Filipino writer.
Download or read book How to Traverse Terra Incognita written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Traverse Terra Incognita is Dean Francis Alfar's second collection of speculative fiction. These short stories draw from the traditions of fantasy, science fiction, and horror: a man recreates a country for his queen, fandom turns dangerous for a writer, toys attempt to escape their sad circumstances, and a door into the realm of the gods appears.
Download or read book Never Have I Ever written by Isabel Yap and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore a world where the supernatural is an accepted element of everyday life and the horror is mined from the realities of existing." — New York Public Library Best Books of the Year World Fantasy Award finalist British Fantasy Award finalist Ladies of Horror Fiction Award winner Crawford Award shortlist “Am I dead?” Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask. Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the friendship and fear building in “A Canticle for Lost Girls” to the joy in “A Spell for Foolish Hearts” to the terrifying tension of the urban legend “Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.”
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 8 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superheroine encashes a check at the bank one morning; a god trapped in a statue is awakened by the intoxicating scent of the scholar studying his stone prison; human beings are homogenized for the sake of idealizing the species. Discover the wealth of the Filipino imagination in the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, featuring stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to horror.
Download or read book Three Messages and a Warning written by Eduardo Mayo and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical combination of emerging and established Mexican authors of original tales of the fantastic.
Download or read book Wounded Little Gods written by Eliza Victoria and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regina was born and raised in the small town of Heridos, where gods and spirits walked the earth. Until they didn't. Ten years ago, the town's harvest failed utterly, and the people---believing the gods had abandoned them--left their farms and moved on. Now, on a Friday before a long weekend, Regina ends her workday at an office in Makati, and walks home with a new colleague, Diana. Following a strange and disturbing conversation between them, Diana does not show up at work on Monday, nor Tuesday, nor Wednesday. On Thursday, Regina finds a folded piece of paper In her bag. In Diana's handwriting are two names and a strange map that will send Regina back to her hometown. Here, in her quest to find Diana, she encounters rumors of genetic experiments, stumbles upon a strange facility that no one seems to know about, finds herself in places that don't exist, and discovers that people are not who they seem to be. And the biggest question in the bizarre chain of events is not what, or how, but why? Wounded Little Gods is a tale that brings mythology to a sci-fi thriller that's filled with a sense of place--a place where gods are in many ways human and point to the ways in which humans can be inhumane. As Regina struggles to unwind the knots surrounding the mystery of this facility and the people connected to it. She discovers that she is more intertwined in the strange events in her hometown than she ever knew.
