Category: Recommended Reading

1. Charles Tan has been compiling a list of speculative works written by Filipinos and published in the international market in 2007 and 2008. He also posts links to the full texts of some earlier speculative fiction stories posted in Literatura. 2. The Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler compiled by Charles Tan and Mia Tijam has been reviewed at Boing Boing. The group blog is having some server problems, so if you can't view the page now, try again later. 3. Dean Alfar, co-editor and publisher of the annual Philippine Speculative Fiction anthology, says that the publication and launch of PSF4 has been moved to February 2009. 4. In honor of the Komikon - the 4th Philippine Komiks Convention which takes place today, at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, Quezon City - I plug two comics by authors of Filipino heritage: a) No Formula: Stories from the Chemistry Set

Among the stories are short works by Andrew Drilon, whose short fiction has been published in the Philippine Speculative Fiction anthologies, and who also made the cover for the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler. For the Table of Contents and purchase information, see Andrew Drilon's Livejournal. Previews of the comics in the collecton may be found at The Chemistry Set. b) SPEAK NO EVIL This clever science fiction story is also a social commentary by Filipino artist Elan Rodger Trinidad. Read the whole piece at Theory of Everything Comics, and don't forget to check out Elan Rodger's afterword.