Tuesday Fiction: “Synchronicity” by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo. Victor is from the Philippines, and his work has been published in the Philippine Free Press and the anthologies Philippine Speculative Fiction (Volume 6), The Ayam Curtain, and Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction. His story “Here Be Dragons” won first prize at the Romeo...

World SF Travel Fund fund-raiser!

Please pass along and consider donating! World SF Travel Fund Fund-Raiser A combination of genre professionals and fans from the international scene and the United States have gathered together to create the World SF Travel Fund. The fund has been set up to enable one or two international persons involved in science fiction, fantasy or...

BSFA Award

I'm delighted to say we've been nominated for a BSFA Award in the non-fiction category! And very happy to see two international writers, Aliette de Bodard (France) and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Philippines) in the short fiction category. Best Novel Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) Empty Space: a Haunting by M. John Harrison (Gollancz) Intrusion by Ken Macleod (Orbit)...

Lavie Tidhar talks World SF 2

Grasping for the wind has just posted a new interview with me about international speculative fiction and editing The Apex Book of World SF 2, with some comments from anthology contributors Rochita Loenen-Ruiz and Silvia Moreno Garcia. The Apex Book of World SF is now out in paperback and on the Kindle! SFFWRTCHT: How long does...

Short Story Highlight: “Terminós” by Dean Francis Alfar

We featured one of Dean Francis Alfar's stories yesterday, and here's another! From the latest issue of Expanded Horizons: Terminós: Mr. Henares thinks about time From the moment he opened his eyes in the morning to the instant before he fell asleep alone at night, Mr. Henares thought only about time. He reflected about how time slowed...

Short Story Highlight: “The New Daughter” by Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines)

Apex Book of World SF contributor Dean Francis Alfar has a new story up at Philippine Genre Stories - The New Daughter: When the boy inevitably grew up, married and moved away with his own growing family, the toymaker decided to make a girl.  He did it this time in secret, afraid of what his...

Dean Francis Alfar’s How To Traverse Terra Incognita Released!

Philippines writer (and Apex Book of World SF contributor) Dean Francis Alfar has just released a new collection of short stories, How To Traverse Terra Incognita, available for the Kindle.   How to Traverse Terra Incognita is Dean Francis Alfar's second collection of short fiction. An advocate of the literature of the imagination, he is...

Introducing Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology

Our own Charles A. Tan has been busy - not only is he nominated, for the second year running, for the World Fantasy Award (for his blog, Bibliophile Stalker) but US-based published Lethe Press have just released his new anthology, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology.   About the anthology: Filipinos and Chinese have a rich, vibrant literature...

Short Story Highlight: “Song Of The Body Cartographer” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz has a new story up at Philippine Genre Stories: Song of the Body Cartographer. Siren traces the marks on Inyanna’s body. There are concave hollows in Inyanna’s arms, and there are connectors along her ribs that allow her to jack into her windbeast when she is in flight. Under Siren’s fingers, the patterns...

Tuesday Fiction: “Waiting with Mortals” by Crystal Koo

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Crystal Koo. Crystal's latest publications include short stories in First Stop Fiction, The Other Room, and Corvus Magazine, while forthcoming publications will be in Philippine Speculative Fiction 7 and Lauriat: An Anthology of Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction. Crystal was born and raised in Manila and has also lived in Beijing and...