Two Issues

I’ve missed out on a lot of things yet again. But I finally updated my 3-year-old RSS reader today, so even if I’ll just point to announcements from other blogs that are relevant to Philippine spec fic, I hope to be more punctual in posting.

In the meantime, I’d like to link to two interesting issues in the local literary blogosphere:

Thinking Towards Philippine Speculative Fiction [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ] by Dean Francis Alfar

and

Crime Does Not Exist via Philippine Genre Stories. Kenneth Yu has also linked to other blog posts discussing the absence of the crime/mystery/suspense genre in Philippine literature.

I hope to be able to type up my own reactions to these issues. But while I don’t have my own words, I link.