Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 4 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic book fan gets his wish; A woman's quest for the perfect man; Diseases sold over the Internet. The Literature of the Fantastic is on display in this volume of the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, featuring new takes on old tropes and fresh imaginings from Filipino authors.
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 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 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 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 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 Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 6 written by Nikki Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supernatural basketball superstar; An expert on interspecies dating and marriage counselor to the peculiar; A girl in a Muslim empire engineering a pair of mechanical wings. Meet these characters, and more, in this volume of Philippine Speculative Fiction, featuring stories from the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
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 Philippine Speculative Fiction written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Sampler written by Nikki Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philippine Speculative Fiction annual anthology series celebrates the Filipino's intrinsic detente with the strange-whether comfortable or uncomfortable, handled with matter-of-fact acceptance, reluctant resignation, or unthinking obliviousness-in nurturing a "e;literature of the fantastic."e; In these pages, you'll find a few of the most exemplary stories from the first seven volumes of the series.
Download or read book The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected short stories from Philippines speculative fiction series.
Download or read book Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 3 written by Dean Francis Alfar and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diet drug gone wrong; A boy born with winged feet; A murder mystery set in a refrigerator. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series features contemporary horror, fantasy, and science fiction from the imagination of Filipino authors. Stories from this series have been included in the Honorable Mentions list from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.
Download or read book The Apex Book of World SF Volume 4 written by Mahvesh Murad and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories. From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it’s written. Cover art and design by Sarah Anne Langton. "Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community." —Strange Horizons Featuring: Vajra Chandrasekera (Sri Lanka) — "Pockets Full of Stones" Yukimi Ogawa (Japan) — "In Her Head, In Her Eyes" Zen Cho (Malaysia) — "The Four Generations of Chang E" Shimon Adaf (Israel) — "Like a Coin Entrusted in Faith" (Translated by the author) Celeste Rita Baker (Virgin Islands) — "Single Entry" Nene Ormes (Sweden) — "The Good Matter" (Translated Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes) JY Yang (Singapore) — "Tiger Baby" Isabel Yap (Philippines) — "A Cup of Salt Tears" Usman T Malik (Pakistan) — "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" Kuzhali Manickavel (India) — "Six Things We Found During the Autopsy" Elana Gomel (Israel) — "The Farm" Haralambi Markov (Bulgaria) — "The Language of Knives" Sabrina Huang (Taiwan) — "Setting Up Home" (Translated by Jeremy Tiang) Sathya Stone (Sri Lanka) — "Jinki and the Paradox" Johann Thorsson (Iceland) — "First, Bite a Finger" Dilman Dila (Uganda) — "How My Father Became a God" Swabir Silayi (Kenya) — "Colour Me Grey" Deepak Unnikrishnan (The Emirates) — "Sarama" Chinelo Onwualu (Nigeria) — "The Gift of Touch" Saad Z. Hossain (Bangaldesh) — "Djinns Live by the Sea" Bernardo Fernández (Mexico) — "The Last Hours of the Final Days" (Translated by the author) Natalia Theodoridou (Greece) — "The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul" Samuel Marolla (Italy) — "Black Tea" (Translated by Andrew Tanzi) Julie Novakova (Czech Republic) — "The Symphony of Ice and Dust" Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Netherlands) — "The Boy Who Cast No Shadow" (Translated by Laura Vroomen) Sese Yane (Kenya) — "The Corpse" Tang Fei — "Pepe" (Translated by John Chu) Rocío Rincón (Spain) — "The Lady of the Soler Colony" (Translated by James and Marian Womack)
