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LONTAR #8

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This eighth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand.

Inside these pages, you’ll find: fishing for mermaids in the Mekong River by Alyssa Wong; an otherworldly ancestral homecoming by Michael Janairo; a rebellion against inevitable eugenics by Clara Chow; snapshots of the fantastic in the mundane by Wilfred Cabrera; and speculative poetry by Tilde Acuña, Bernise Carolino, Judith Huang, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Christina Sng, Sharlene Teo and David Wong Hsien Ming.

Also included is a special supplement: part one of Dean Francis Alfar’s brilliant novel Salamanca, winner of the Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel and Gintong Aklat Award for Literature, serialised here for the first time anywhere.

LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction. Our many contributors have won major literary awards in Singapore, the USA, UK, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Epigram Books

Release: April 01, 2017

ISBN 13: 9789814757621

LONTAR #8

4.2/5 ( ratings)

This eighth issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand.

Inside these pages, you’ll find: fishing for mermaids in the Mekong River by Alyssa Wong; an otherworldly ancestral homecoming by Michael Janairo; a rebellion against inevitable eugenics by Clara Chow; snapshots of the fantastic in the mundane by Wilfred Cabrera; and speculative poetry by Tilde Acuña, Bernise Carolino, Judith Huang, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Christina Sng, Sharlene Teo and David Wong Hsien Ming.

Also included is a special supplement: part one of Dean Francis Alfar’s brilliant novel Salamanca, winner of the Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel and Gintong Aklat Award for Literature, serialised here for the first time anywhere.

LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction. Our many contributors have won major literary awards in Singapore, the USA, UK, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Epigram Books

Release: April 01, 2017

ISBN 13: 9789814757621

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