In The Sea is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia, technological wonder merges with the everyday: children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. The fantastic has always part of our…
Filipinos and Chinese have a rich, vibrant literature when it comes to speculative fiction. But what about the fiction of the Filipino-Chinese, who draw their roots from both cultures...&c
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant…
Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experimentation and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read…
What will the future look like? Many speculative fictions films and books from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, render the future as full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and populated by cold, unfeeling robot-like citizens.…