Anthology series: Philippine Speculative Fiction
Editors (alphabetically listed): Dean Francis Alfar | Nikki Alfar | Andrew Drilon | Alex Osias | Kate Osias |
Elyss Punsalan | Vincent Michael Simbulan | Charles Tan
Language: English
Series: 2005 – present
Bibliographic comments: Volumes 1–6 first appeared as print editions.
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 1
Dean Francis Alfar, ed.
2005
Library edition: April 2012, 2nd edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-00-1
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• 'Foreword to the 2012 editions' and Introduction by Dean Francis Alfar.
Fiction: Cyan Abad-Jugo, Jan's Door // Tyron Caliente, The Doppler Effect // Andrew Drilon, Tendresse //
Francezca C. Kwe, Lovelore // Nikki Alfar, Emberwild // Joseph Nacino, Walking Backwards // Angelo R.
Lacuesta, New Wave Days // Dean Francis Alfar, L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) // Jay Steven Uy
Anyong, The Coward's Quest // Pauline Orendain, Room Three // Gabriela Lee, Instructions on How to Disappear
// Ian Rosales Casocot, The Pepe Report // Vincent Michael Simbulan, In the Arms of Beishu // J. Pocholo
Martin Goitia, An Introduction to the Luminescent // Khavn, The Family That Eats Soil // Sean Uy, Regiment // K.
Mandigma, The Catalogue of the Damned // Douglas L. Candano, The Life and Death of Hermes Uy
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 2
Dean Francis Alfar, ed.
2007
Library edition: April 2012, 2nd edition
Kestrel & Flipside
No ISBN
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• 'Foreword to the 2012 editions' by Dean Francis Alfar, 'An Introduction in Four Parts, Tackling This and That' by
Dean Francis Alfar.
Fiction: Michael A. R. Co, Waiting for Victory // Kate Aton-Osias, Snippets // Russell Stanley Q. Geronimo, The
Sign of the Cross // Yvette Natalie U. Tan, The Child Abandoned // Joseph F. Nacino, First Contact // Madeleine
Rae Ong, Clutter // Allan B. Lopez, Hundreds Upon Hundreds of Forgotten Memories Will Suddenly Appear When
She Finally Decides to Leave What Could Only Be Called Mistakes in Her Life, and at This Precise Moment She Will
Have Realized That All the Time She Can Spare Is Long Lost and Will Never Be Returned // Dean Francis Alfar, Six
from Downtown // Andrew Drilon, How Saint Miko and I Ruined the Apocalypse // Joshua L. Lim So, Feasting //
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Borealis // Alexander Marcos Osias, Gunsaddled // Mia Tijam, Waiting for Agua de Mayos
// Jessi Albano, Witch // Vincent Michael Simbulan, What You See Is Not What You Get // Oscar Bryan Alvarez,
V.A., or the One True Agency for the Search of Disappeared Gods and Mythical Heroes // Jonathan Jimena Siason,
Re-Genesis // Apol Lejano-Massebieau, Just Another Ghost Story // Nikki Alfar, Bearing Fruit
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 3
Dean Francis Alfar, Nikki Alfar, eds.
2007
Library edition: May 2012, 2nd edition
Kestrel & Flipside
No ISBN
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• 'Foreword to the 2012 editions' by Dean Francis Alfar, Introduction by Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Apol Lebano-Massebieau, Pedro Diyego's Homecoming // F. H. Batacan, Keeping Time // Dominique
Cimafranca, Facester // Angelo R. Lacuesta, Reclamation // Raymond G. Falgui, The Datu's Daughters // Mia
Tijam, The Ascension of Our Lady Boy // Andrew Drilon, Peekli // Marianne Villanueva, The Hand // Joseph F.
Nacino, Brigada // M. R. R. Arcega, The Singer's Man // Joanna Paula L. Cailas, Hamog // Yvette Natalie U. Tan,
Sidhi // Alexander Marcos Osias, The Death and Rebirth of Nathaniel Alan Sempio // Rodello Santos, In Earthen
Vessels // Elyss G. Punsalan, Carmen and Josephine // Timothy James M. Dimacali, Sky Gypsies // Ian Rosales
Casocot, The Flicker // Charles Tan, Urban Legends // Alfred A. Yuson, The Music Child // Marguerite Alcazaren
de Leon, Frozen Delight
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 8
Dean Francis Alfar, Nikki Alfar, eds.
2013
Library edition: July 2013, 1st edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-61-2
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction by Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Mo Francisco, Still Life // Laurence Roxas, The Fence // Kenneth Yu, One Morning at the Bank // Gabriela
Lee, Stations // Andrew Drilon, Freeborn in the City of Fallacies // G. Justin Hulog, Bulol // Eliza Victoria, A Fire
That Cannot Be Touched // Joseph De Guzman, The Homo Sapiens Upgrade Initiative // Joseph F. Nacino, A
Tikbalang in Europe // Maria Amparo Warren, Hands Within the Walls // Irwin Allen Rivera, Continuity // Vincent
Michael Simbulan, Graying // Timothy J. David, Kaleza // Catherine Batac Walder, A Princess, Sitting on a Teacup
// Alexander Osias, Highway Run // Crystal Koo, The Mayorga Collection // U.Z. Eliserio, The Midwife // Charles
Tan, Scions of the Oneiroi // Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, The Turkish Seamstress in Ubec // Kate Osias, Rescuing
the Rain God
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 10
Dean Francis Alfar, Nikki Alfar, eds.
2016
Library edition: April 2016, 1st edition
Flipside
ISBN 978-6-21410-079-8
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction 'X Marks the Spot' by Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Alyssa Wong, Santos de Sampaguitas // Gabriela Lee, A Small Hope // Renz Christian Torres, The Owl
and the Hoopoe // Lakan Umali, Hunger // Rapunzel Tomacder, Fisher of Men // Richard Calayeg Cornelio,
Oblation // Joseph Anthony Montecillo, Night Predators of Niladan // A.J. Elicaño, IT Girl // Kate Osias, When the
Gods Left // Noel Tio, Lamat // E.K. Gonzales, Soulless // Kenneth Yu, For Sale: Big-Ass Sword // Joel Pablo
Salud, The Dollmaker // Vincent Michael Simbulan, The Run to Grand Maharlika Station // Francis Gabriel
Concepcion, Children of the Stars // Andrew Drilon, The Last God of Cavite // Eliza Victoria, The Target //
Raymund P. Reyes, Marvin and the Jinni // Angelo R. Lacuesta, A Report // Cyan Abad-Jugo, Thunderstorm //
Jose Elvin Bueno, Self-Aware Characters in Telenova Endings // Alexander Marcos Osias, A Long Walk Home //
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Mene, Thecel, Phares
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 5
Nikki Alfar, Vincent Michael Simbulan, eds.
2010
Library edition: July 2012, 2nd edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-21-6
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• 'Foreword to the 2012 editions' by Dean Francis Alfar, essay '2009: The Year in Review' by Vincent Michael
Simbulan and Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Kate Osias, The Goodlyf // Fidelis Angela C. Tan, Death and Noy // Isabel Yap, Sink // Joseph Anthony
Montecillo, New Toy // Dominique Gerald Cimafranca, Leg Men // Veronica Montes, The Left-Behind Girl // Rica
Bolipata-Santos, Just Man // Andrew Drilon, A Game of Quam // Timothy James Dimacali, Keeper of My Sky //
Alexander Osias, Rogelio Batle and the Curse of the Crimson Court // Charles Tan, A Yellow Brick Road Valentine
// Raymond G. Falgui, A New Hospital // Mia Tijam, Heart in the Flesh // Eliza Victoria, Monsters // Ejay
Domingo, There's a Waterfall in Your Rainbow // Angelo R. Lacuesta, Three Stories // Gabriela Lee, Eyes as Wide
as the Sky // Kenneth Yu, The Sparrows of Climaco Avenue // Paolo Chikiamco, Carbon // Marla Cabanban, If We
Catch Fire // Joseph F. Nacino, The Autochthonic War // Christine V. Lao, The Creature // Aileen Familara,
Embedding // Apol Lejano-Massebieau, Very Short Fairytales: Stories from Found Objects // Dean Francis Alfar,
Strange Weather
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 6
Nikki Alfar, Kate Osias, eds.
2011
Library edition: July 2012, 2nd edition
Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-22-3
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• 'Foreword to the 2012 editions' by Dean Francis Alfar, 'essay 2010: A Good Year, But Still No Space Odyssey, Darnit'
by Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Asterio Enrico N. Gutierrez, The Big Man // Ian Rosales Casocot, Alternative Histories: Really Short Stories
for the Twitter Generation // Elyss G. Punsalan, Ashland // Arlynn Despi, Carpaccio (or, Repentance as a Meat
Recipe) // Vincent Michael Simbulan, The Grim Malkin // Christine V. Lao, From the Book of Names My Mother Did
Not Give Me // John Philip Corpuz, Prisoner 2501 // Maria Elena Paterno, A Smell of Mothballs // Joseph
Anthony Montecillo, Villainoguing // Paolo Chikiamco, On Wooden Wings // Francis Gabriel Concepcion, The
Break-In on Batay Street // Kenneth Yu, The Kiddie Pool // Maria Pia Benosa, Eternal Winter // Jay Steven
Anyong, Lament of the Counselor // Charles Tan, The Bookshelves of Ms. Go // Andrei Tupaz, Offerings to Aman
Sinaya // Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Resurrection // Andrew Drilon, Strange Adventures in Procreation //
Crystal Koo, Hollowbody // Eliza Victoria, The Storyteller's Curse // Alexander M. Osias, The Impossible and the
RSC Gregorio del Pilar // Dean Francis Alfar, Simon's Replica
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 7
Kate Osias, Alex Osias, eds.
2012
Library edition: July 2012, 1st edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-23-0
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• 'Foreword to the 2012 editions' by Dean Francis Alfar, Introduction by Kate Osias.
Fiction: Victoria Isabel Yap, All the Best of Dark and Bright // Arlynn Despi, The Scrap Collectors // Dean Francis
Alfar, East of the Sun // Benito M. Vergara, Jr., The Changes // Mo Francisco, Never Land // Chris Mariano,
Chasers // Dariel R.A. Quioge, The Call of the Chained God // Paolo Cjikiamco, Oblation // Julian dela Cerna,
The Love Spell // Melissa Sipin, Sarsarita Time // Vincent Michael Simbulan, The Dragon's Orb // Kenneth Yu,
All That We May See // James Constantino Bautista, Faith in Fiction // F. Jordan Carnice, The Day Nostalgia
Swept Over a Town // Ian Rosales Casocot, What You See // Kristine Ong Muslim, Pet // Andrew Drilon, The
Little Things That Datu Did // Charles Tan, The Commute to Paradiso // Christine V. Lao, What the Body
Remembers // Eliza Victoria, username: tanglaw // Crystal Koo, The Likeness of God // Joseph Anthony
Montecillo, The Nature of Apocalypse // Nikki Alfar, Bastard Sword // John Philip Corpuz, Mother of Monsters
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 9
Andrew Drilon, Charles Tan, eds.
2014
Library edition: October 2014, 1st edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9640-25-7
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction by Andrew Drilon and Charles Tan.
Fiction: Renz Christian Torres, Blood of Iron // Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Panopticon // Vida Cruz, First Play for
and by Tikbalang Triggers Uproar on Opening Night // Michael Aaron Gomez, Only Dogs Piss Here // Jenny
Ortuoste, Last Race // Kat del Rosario, Oscar's Marvelous Transformation // Alexander Osias, Stations of the
Apostate // William Robert Yasi, Sikat // Eliza Victoria, Deliver Us // Franz Johann Dela Merced, Miracles Under
a Concrete Sky // Kate Osias, The Unmaking of the Cuadro Amoroso // Cedric Tan, The Woodsman // Rochita
Loenen-Ruiz, And These Were the Names of the Vanished // Crystal Koo, Anthropomorpha // Marianne Villanueva,
Sofia // Vincent Michael Simbulan, Transcripts from the Investigation on the Life and Death of Alastor de Roja //
Nikki Alfar, TG2416 from Mars // Marc Gregory Yu, Mater Dolorosa // Elyss G. Punsalan, Scissor Tongue // A.J.
Elicaño, Cogito
Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler
Nikki Alfar, ed.
2012
Library edition: December 2012, 1st edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-28-5
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction 'It's More Fun(ky) in the Philippines' by Nikki Alfar.
• Free publication.
Fiction: Dean Francis Alfar, L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) // Elyss G. Punsalan, Ashland // Alexander
Osias, Rogelio Batle and the Curse of the Crimson Court // Joseph Anthony Montecillo, The Nature of Apocalypse
// Christine V. Lao, From the Book of Names My Mother Did Not Give Me // Andrew Drilon, The Secret Origin of
Spin-Man
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 4
Dean Francis Alfar, Nikki Alfar, eds.
2009
Library edition: February 2009, 1st edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-971-93430-3-5
Trade paperback, xii+177 pages
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction by Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Andrew Drilon, The Secret Origin of Spin-Man // Leo Magno, Press Release // Noel Tio, Revenge of the
Tiktaks // Maryanne Moll, Breathing Space // Vincent Michael Simbulan, Mang Marcing and the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse // Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo, The Rooftops of Manila // Monique Francisco, The Day That
Frances, the Copywriter, Became God // Charles Tan, A Retrospective on Diseases for Sale // Celestine Trinidad,
Sky Blue // Jose Elvin Bueno, All We Need Is Five Meals a Day // Apol Lejano-Massebieau, The Sewing Project //
Joseph F. Nacino, Dreams of the Iron Giant // Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Breaking the Spell // Isabel Yap, The Dance
of the Storm // Carljoe Javier, Dino's Awesome Adventure // Kenneth Yu, Beats // Anne Lagamayo, Hopscotch //
Paolo Jose Cruz, First of the Gang to Die // Erica Gonzales, Haya Makes a HUG // Sharmaine Galve, The
Paranoid Style // Kate Aton-Osias, The Maiden's Song // Eliza Victoria, Parallel // Ronald Cruz, A League of
Champions // Adam David, From Abecediarya
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 11
Kate Osias, Elyss Punsalan, Nikki Alfar, eds.
2018
< July 2018, 1st edition
Kestrel & Flipside
ISBN 978-6-2101-0095-2
Digital
£0.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Kate Osias.
Fiction: Vin Simbulan, Things You Remembered As You Broke My Heart // Exie Abola, Shadow Sisters // Vince
Torres, Principe // Joshua Bartolome, Sparagmos // Sarah Meneses, Sabong // Richard Cornelio, Zoetrope //
Alexander M. Osias, What Damage We Can // Ren Mayari, The Sorceress Marula // Ian Rosales Casocot, The
Apologist // Wilfred Cabrera, The Man from the Balete Tree // Anne Plaza, Project DIWATA // Joseph Anthony
Montecillo, The Punished of Train 25 // Leng Malit, The Goddess of Debt // Marianne Freya T. Nono, Dream
Watcher // Ivy Alvarez, Cipher // Andrew Drilon, Remains // Jacob Ramos, Kaptan // Angelo R. Lacuesta,
Spacer // Kenneth Yu, The Greatest Fight of Sunny Granada // Eliza Victoria, After the Crash // Jose Elvin
Bueno, Cadena de Amor // Nikki Alfar, Prisoner // Saquina Karla C. Guiam, Pasig // Vida Cruz, Call of the
Rimefolk
The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005–2010
Dean Francis Alfar, Nikki Alfar, eds.
2013
< 2013, 1st edition
The University of the Philippines Press
ISBN 978-9-7154-2704-3
Trade paperback, xx+362 pages
No cover price
Notes:
• Introduction 'On What Was Once Mere Speculation' by Dean Francis Alfar, essay 'Things You Never Knew About
Philippine Speculative Fiction' by Nikki Alfar.
Fiction: Andrew Drilon, The Secret Origin of Spin-Man // Pocholo Goitia, An Introduction to the Luminescent //
Russell Stanley Geronimo, The Sign of the Cross // Rebecca Arcega, The Singer's Man // Paolo Chikiamco,
Carbon // Mia Tijam, The Ascension of Our Lady Boy // Eliza Victoria, Parallel // Joshua L. Lim So, Feasting //
Angelo R. Lacuesta, Reclamation // Apol Lejano-Massebieau, Pedro Diyego's Homecoming // Dean Francis Alfar,
Six from Downtown // Timothy James M. Dimacali, Sky Gypsies // Charles Tan, A Retrospective on Diseases for
Sale // Noel Tio, Revenge of the Tiktaks // Kate Osias, The Maiden's Song // F. H. Batacan, Keeping Time // Isabel
Yap, Sink // Marguerite Alcazaren de Leon, Frozen Delight // Joseph F. Nacino, Brigada // Ian Rosales Casocot,
The Flicker // Nikki Alfar, Bearing Fruit // Carljoe Javier, Dino's Awesome Adventure // Kenneth Yu, The Sparrows
of Climaco Avenue // Alexander Osias, The Death and Rebirth of Nathaniel Alan Sempio // Yvette Tan, Sidhi //
Vincent Michael Simbulan, Mang Marcing and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse // Ronald Cruz, A League of
Champions // Anne Lagamayo, Hopscotch // Jose Elvin Bueno, All We Need Is Five Meals a Day // Rica
Bolipata-Santos, Just Man
