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Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #1

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, eds.

2013

< First edition, October 2013

Math Paper Press

ISBN 978-9-8107-7171-3

Trade paperback, 92 pages

S$22.00

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Etching the Lontar' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Kate Osias, Departures  //  Zen Cho, Love in the Time of Utopia  //  Paolo Chikiamco, Philippine Magic: A

Course Catalogue  //  Elka Ray Nguyen, The Yellow River  //  Paolo Bacigalupi, The Gambler

Poetry: Chris Mooney-Singh, Jayawarman 9th Remembers the Dragon Archipelago  //  Ang Si Min, The Immortal

Pharmacist  //  Bryan Thao Worra, Stainless Steel Nak

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #5

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Adan Jiminez, eds.

2015

< First edition, October 2015

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8146-5518-7

Trade paperback, 104 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'For Support and Illumination' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim, comics editor is Adan Jiminez.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Ng Yi-Sheng, No Man Is  //  Kawika Guillermo, The Bear  //  Erica Verrillo, Blackbirds Emerging from the

Sun  //  Amanda Lee Koe, Siren  // Gord Sellar, The Spurned Bride's Tears, Centuries Old, in the Rain

Poetry: Christina Sng, The Woman in the Coffee Shop  //  Christina Sng, The New World  //  Sokunthary Svay,

Moulding  // Daryl W. J. Lim, Tooth  //  Tania De Rozario, Apocalypse  //  Lee Jing-Jing, The Interview  //  Joel

Donato Jacob, A Marriage of Hybrids  //  Joel Donato Jacob, Lambanâ

Graphic format: Benjamin Chee, We Still Need to Makan

Essay: Massimo Morello, Let the Stupid Ones Die

Anthology series: Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction

Editors (alphabetically listed):  Adan Jiminez  |  Jason Erik Lundberg  |  Kristine Ong Muslim

Language:  English

Series:  2013 – 2018

Bibliographic comments:

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #2

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, eds.

2014

< First edition, April 2014

Math Paper Press

ISBN 978-9-8109-0301-5

Trade paperback, 80 pages

S$19.00

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Sophomore Segue' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim.

>   Library edition

Fiction: E.C. Myers, The Tiger in the Forest Between Two Worlds  //  Tiffany Tsao, What Is Being Erased  //  Victor

Fernando R. Ocampo, Entanglement  // Eliza Chan, The Floating Market  //  John Burdett, The Apartment

Poetry: Jerrold Yam, Doppelgänger  //  Tse Hao Guang, A Script  //  Ang Si Min, Waiting for the Doctor  //  Shelly

Bryant, Naga, A Khmer Myth  //  Daryl Yam, Funkytown

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #3

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, eds.

2014

< First edition, November 2014

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8146-1575-4

Trade paperback, 116 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'The More Things Change' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Dean Francis Alfar, A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila  //  Sabrina Huang, Setting Up Home  //  Ben Slater,

Resort Time  //  JY Yang, Mother's Day  //  Nikki Alfar, An Unexpected Stop  //  Geoff Ryman, The Last Ten Years in

the Life of Hero Kai

Poetry: Anne Carly Abad, The Elephant in the Room  //  David Wong Hsien Ming, Before the Last War  //  Daryl Yam,

Signs, or the Fate of Big-footed Individuals  //  Tse Hao Guang, Harbour  //  Cyril Wong, Since We Stopped

Communicating  // Arlene Ang, Manananggal  //  Arlene Ang, The White Lady on Balete Drive  //  Arlene Ang, The

Smoke People

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #4

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, eds.

2015

< First edition, May 2015

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8146-1591-4

Trade paperback, 102 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Forth Into the Light of Things' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Eliza Victoria, Fade  //  Andrew Cheah, A Century of Loneliness  // Kate Osias, The Tango  //  

Ng Yi-Sheng, No Other City  //  Paolo Bacigalupi, Yellow Card Man

Poetry: Jerrold Yam, Childhood Dissertation  //  Desmond Kon Zicheng-Mingdé, curiosa :: oddities  //  Joses Ho,

Inside Thirty Hours  //  Michael Gray, Party at Xue's House  //  Michael Gray, The End of Thai Phooket  //  Cyril Wong,

Kairos

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #6

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Adan Jiminez, eds.

2016

< First edition, April 2016

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8147-5738-6

Trade paperback, 116 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'The Art of Asking' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim, comics editor is Adan Jiminez.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Ken Liu, Running Shoes  //  Eka Kurniawan, Caronang  //  Ng Yi-Sheng, The Boy, the Swordfish, the Bleeding

Island  //  Jennifer Anne Champion, See It Coming  //  JY Yang, Her Majesty's Lamborghini and the Girl with the Fish

Tank  //  Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Brother to Space, Sister to Time

Poetry: Christina Sng, Invisible Girl  //  Christina Sng, 10 Days in the Gardens  //  Christina Sng, When It Happened  

//  Russ Hoe, I See Clouds  //  Marco Yan, Stealth  //  Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, quaere :: seek and ask  //  

Ang Si Min, Changi Mermaid  //  Jonel Abellanosa, Pinocchio  //  Jonel Abellanosa, Rapunzel  //  Sokunthary Svay,

Baptism  //  Brendan Walsh, Candle Rite for Life / Laos  //  Brendan Walsh, At Stoney Creek Beach, Thinking of Si

Phan Don, Laos  //  Krishna Udayasankar, Objects of Revolution

Graphic format: Alex Arellano, Kajo Baldisimo, Budjette Tan, The Feast

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #7

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Adan Jiminez, eds.

2016

< First edition, October 2016

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8147-5777-5

Trade paperback, 144 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'How Lucky We Are to Be Alive Right Now' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim, comics editor is Adan Jiminez.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Zen Cho, 七星鼓 (Seven Star Drum)  //  T. R. Napper, The Four Deaths of Taylor Ngo  //  Melissa De Silva,

Blind Date  //  James Penha, Candlenut Farm  //  Vida Cruz, Ink: A Love Story  //  Manish Melwani, The Tigers of

Bengal

Poetry: Bryan Thao Worra, This Island, New Laos  //  Zeny May Recidoro, Eden and Our Habits  //  Brandon Marlon,

Funduk  //  Brandon Marlon, The Sultan's Tent  //  Subashini Navaratnam, The organisation sends a suicide bomber

with their best regards  //  Russ Hoe, In His Own Words  //  Christina Sng, Une Nouvelle Vie  //  Christina Sng,

Ichthyosaur Birth  // Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, from "The Anti-Art Anti-Evolution of Manic Piggy Dream Gurrl"  

//  Cyril Wong, The Other Universe

Graphic format: Elvin Ching, Falling

Essay: Tiffany Tsao, In Suspicion of Beauty: On Eka Kurniawan

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #8

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Adan Jiminez, eds.

2017

< First edition, April 2017

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8147-5762-1

Trade paperback, 160 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Science Is Finally Catching Up to Buddhism' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim, comics editor is Adan Jiminez although this issue has no graphical contents.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Alyssa Wong, The Fisher Queen  //  Wilfred Cabrera, Superstations  // Michael Janairo, The Road to

Burabod  //  Clara Chow, Welcome, 265 Aggregate Scorers!  //  Dean Francis Alfar, Salamanca - Part One

Poetry: Judith Huang, Swing Past Old Pluto  //  Judith Huang, farewell, blue elephant  //  Bernise Carolino,

Independence Day, 1898  //  David Wong Hsien Ming, The Long Divorce  //  David Wong Hsien Ming, The Brain

Train  //  Tilde Acuña, micro-commentaries  //  Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Two Stories About Bloomsday  //  

Sharlene Teo, Snap Chat  //  Sharlene Teo, Same Ghost Every Night  //  Christina Sng, Time Again for Life  //  

Christina Sng, Desert Interlude

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #9

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Adan Jiminez, eds.

2017

< First edition, October 2017

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8147-8526-6

Trade paperback, 145 pages

S$14.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'Short and Sweet' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim, comics editor is Adan Jiminez although this issue has no graphical contents.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Aliette de Bodard, The Moon Over Red Trees  //  KH Lim, War of the Macaques  //  Sean Jones, After the

Thaw  //  Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Father Is the Blood, Mother Is the Wine  //  Philip Holden, The First Star from

the Moon  //  Dean Francis Alfar, Salamanca - Part Two

Poetry: D. A. Xiaolin Spires, martian rover jeepneys  //  D. A. Xiaolin Spires, ketchup / catsup / kecap  //  Lakan

Umali, House Ghosts  //  Mariel Annarose Nicole Alonzo, a hunter-gatherer with oral fixation  // Mariel Annarose

Nicole Alonzo, a hunter-gatherer invents clothing  //  Russ Hoe, The Every February Serengeti  //  Inez Tan, Wayang

Wayang  // Inez Tan, Proclamation  //  Melvin Chen, The Other

Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction, #10

Jason Erik Lundberg, Kristine Ong Muslim, Adan Jiminez, eds.

2018

< First edition, May 2018

Epigram Books

ISBN 978-9-8146-5553-8

Trade paperback, 288 pages

S$18.90

Notes:

  •  Editorial 'On Kindness and Farewells' by Jason Erik Lundberg.

  •  Poetry editor is Kristine Ong Muslim, comics editor is Adan Jiminez.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Manish Melwani, Sejarah Larangan; or, The Forbidden History of Old Singapura  //  Topaz Winters, Flight  //  

Kevin Martens Wong, A Merlion for His Majesty  //  Gabriela Lee, The Offering  //  Graeme Ford, Marylyn Tan,

Toader  //  Wayne Rée, Satay  //  Natalie Wang, The Filial Tiger's Wife  //  Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, To See Infinity

Inside the Pages of a Book  //  Vida Cruz, Song of the Mango  //  Patricia Karunungan, Agatha  //  Cyril Wong, The

Bodhisattva Makes Her Case  //  Eliza Victoria, Carpe Noctem  //  Dean Francis Alfar, Salamanca - Part Three

Poetry: Natalie Wang, The Pontianak  //  Natalie Wang, Stranger Tales from the Nanyang  //  Kevin Minh Allen,

Outskirts  //  Kevin Minh Allen, According to Our Wishes  // Joses Ho, Space Ship Island Number One  // Joses Ho,

Truce  //  Lawdenmarc Decamora, Dynasty  //  Judith Huang, Ants  //   Judith Huang, A Different Story  // Sithuraj

Ponraj, Lex Talionis  //  F. Jordan Carnice, On the Evening an Autocrat Experienced Synaesthesia  //  Davian Aw,

Liberation  //  Davian Aw, Home  //  Davian Aw, Afterglow  //  May Chong, Tuan Puteri Mayang  //  May Chong,

Cosmos Amok  //  Bronwyn Sharman, Iterative Translations from the Output Layer  //  Genevieve DeGuzman,

Cosmonaut's Lament  //  Lakan Umali, Mara's Mother Introduces the World  //  Lakan Umali, Mara's Mother Warns

Her of the Outside

Graphic format: Drewscape, Rewire