Victor Fernando R. Ocampo's Blog, page 2
May 16, 2014
"Big Enough..." on Peregrinate with Me
This blog post was from last year but I saw it only now. Blogger Eileen Fong reviews Fish Eats Lion and she has some nice words to say about my story "Big Enough for the Entire Universe" - http://peregrinatewithme.wordpress.co...
May 6, 2014
A Short and Incomplete History of Philippine Science Fiction
Hello Good Reads friends, just sharing my new blog post "A Short and Incomplete History of Philippine Science Fiction" - http://victorfernandorocampo.wordpres...
April 29, 2014
Why Filipinos should write Science Fiction.
Hey everyone, I have a new post on my blog on why Filipinos should write Science Fiction - http://victorfernandorocampo.wordpres...
March 12, 2014
New Blog: The Infinite Library and Other Stories
Hello Goodreads Universe, I just wanted to share my new blog and my (growing) list of Speculative Fiction Authors in or from Southeast Asia - http://victorfernandorocampo.wordpres...
March 10, 2014
"How my Sister Leonora Brought Home a Wife" is up on Lakeside Circus
Yay! My piece "How my Sister Leonora brought Home a Wife" is now up on Lakeside Circus. This is a Science Fiction homage to Manuel Arguilla, one of earliest (and finest) Filipino short story writers in English. I hope you like it. - http://lakesidecircus.com/2014/02/vic...
January 30, 2014
Outpouring: Typhoon Yolanda Relief Anthology Officially Launched
"Outpouring: Typhoon Yolanda Relief Anthology" edited by Dean Francis Alfar is now officially available on Amazon for Kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I3BCNGW and on Kobo http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eboo...
It will also be available soon on Weightless, Wizard, and iTunes ebook stores.
Proceeds from sales will go toward the ongoing efforts of the Philippine Red Cross to help the millions of victims of super typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as "Yolanda").
Here is the very rich table of contents:
“The Wordeaters” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Invisible Empire of Ascending Light” by Ken Scholes
“The Photograph” by Veronica Montes
“A Moment in Time” by Charie D. La Marr
“A Gentlemen's Agreement” by Susan S.Lara
“X” by Karissa Chen
“Cunning Syncronicity” by Berrien C. Henderson
“Godsend” by Joel Pablo Salud
“Ondoy” by Laura McPhee-Browne
“Rescuing the Rain God” by Kate Osias
“The Wish Head” by Jeffrey Ford
“Flash Forward” by Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz
“Where Sky and Sea Meet” by Dan Campbell
“Arrow” by Barry King
“Finding Those Who Are Lost” by Celestine Trinidad
“Synchronicity” by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
“We're All Stories in the End” by Matthew J. Rogers
“Silverio and the Eidolon” by Vincent Michael Simbulan
“Tinkerers” by Jay Wilburn
“Finding” by David B. Ramirez
“Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)” by Jason Erik Lundberg
“Pilar Escheverria” by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
“Scraps” by Michael Haynes
“Freeborn in the City of Fallacies” by Andrew Drilon
“Storm Warning” by Lilian Csernica
“The Nameless Ones” by Gabriela Lee
“Whispers” by Grant J. McMaster
“Highway Run” by Alexander Marcos Osias
“Black Sun” by Todd Nelsen
“Life at the Lake's Shore” by Alex Shvartsman
“Aliens” by Fiona Mae Villamor
“Little Italy” by Isa Lorenzo
“Discipline” by Rebecca McFarland Kyle
“Unmaking” by Julie C. Day
“Fresh Fruit” by Yvette Tan
“The Sparrows of Climaco Avenue” by Kenneth Yu
“Gellen's Retirement Plan” by Tim Sullivan
“When We Were Witches” by Nikki Alfar
“All the Little Gods We Are” by John Grant
“Tuba Knight” by Cesar Miguel G. Escaño
Please go and support this very noble effort. Every little bit helps.
It will also be available soon on Weightless, Wizard, and iTunes ebook stores.
Proceeds from sales will go toward the ongoing efforts of the Philippine Red Cross to help the millions of victims of super typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as "Yolanda").
Here is the very rich table of contents:
“The Wordeaters” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
“Invisible Empire of Ascending Light” by Ken Scholes
“The Photograph” by Veronica Montes
“A Moment in Time” by Charie D. La Marr
“A Gentlemen's Agreement” by Susan S.Lara
“X” by Karissa Chen
“Cunning Syncronicity” by Berrien C. Henderson
“Godsend” by Joel Pablo Salud
“Ondoy” by Laura McPhee-Browne
“Rescuing the Rain God” by Kate Osias
“The Wish Head” by Jeffrey Ford
“Flash Forward” by Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz
“Where Sky and Sea Meet” by Dan Campbell
“Arrow” by Barry King
“Finding Those Who Are Lost” by Celestine Trinidad
“Synchronicity” by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
“We're All Stories in the End” by Matthew J. Rogers
“Silverio and the Eidolon” by Vincent Michael Simbulan
“Tinkerers” by Jay Wilburn
“Finding” by David B. Ramirez
“Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)” by Jason Erik Lundberg
“Pilar Escheverria” by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
“Scraps” by Michael Haynes
“Freeborn in the City of Fallacies” by Andrew Drilon
“Storm Warning” by Lilian Csernica
“The Nameless Ones” by Gabriela Lee
“Whispers” by Grant J. McMaster
“Highway Run” by Alexander Marcos Osias
“Black Sun” by Todd Nelsen
“Life at the Lake's Shore” by Alex Shvartsman
“Aliens” by Fiona Mae Villamor
“Little Italy” by Isa Lorenzo
“Discipline” by Rebecca McFarland Kyle
“Unmaking” by Julie C. Day
“Fresh Fruit” by Yvette Tan
“The Sparrows of Climaco Avenue” by Kenneth Yu
“Gellen's Retirement Plan” by Tim Sullivan
“When We Were Witches” by Nikki Alfar
“All the Little Gods We Are” by John Grant
“Tuba Knight” by Cesar Miguel G. Escaño
Please go and support this very noble effort. Every little bit helps.
December 27, 2013
"How my Sister Leonora Brought Home a Wife" on Lakeseide Circus
So pleased to announce that my short story "How My Sister Leonora Brought Home a Wife' will be in the inaugural issue of Lakeside Circus this December, along with work by such luminaries as Dean Alfar, Vajra Chandrasekera, Sofia Samatar, Bryan Thao Worra, and many others.
My far-future off-world story is inspired by Manuel Arguilla's "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife", one of the Philippines' earliest English-language short stories.
Here's the TOS - http://lakesidecircus.com/2013/10/we-...
My far-future off-world story is inspired by Manuel Arguilla's "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife", one of the Philippines' earliest English-language short stories.
Here's the TOS - http://lakesidecircus.com/2013/10/we-...
"A Secret Map of Shanghai" on Strange Horizons
My little allegorical tale of imperialism was up recently on Strange Horizons - http://www.strangehorizons.com/2013/2...
Here's a short review from Locus by Lois Tilton -
A symbolic history of the imperialist making of the city and its remaking as a dominant power. The god of Shanghai, having once been formed by his Western dominatrix goddess, is now in the ascendancy.
Although the text alludes to Western domination by several powers, the name Mrs Plimm strongly suggests the British, as do the references to Kipling. The piece is quite short, poetic in an erotic key; where it might have been conceived as a rape, it takes the form of a seduction, a love story.
“Shanghai is a woman, a beautiful Vitruvian woman,” GG whispered softly, as he traced the city’s contours on her smooth body. “Her head is at Qîngpu, pointing to Sûzhôu, the land of old dreams. Her left hand is at Baoshân Qû, holding the hand of Mâzu, the goddess of the sea. Her right hand is at Jînshân Qû, crushing mountains of gold. Then there is Pudông. Pudông starts where her jade wheel crushes dew and ends with her toes touching the endless, restless water.”
–RECOMMENDED
(from - http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2013/...)
Here's a short review from Locus by Lois Tilton -
A symbolic history of the imperialist making of the city and its remaking as a dominant power. The god of Shanghai, having once been formed by his Western dominatrix goddess, is now in the ascendancy.
Although the text alludes to Western domination by several powers, the name Mrs Plimm strongly suggests the British, as do the references to Kipling. The piece is quite short, poetic in an erotic key; where it might have been conceived as a rape, it takes the form of a seduction, a love story.
“Shanghai is a woman, a beautiful Vitruvian woman,” GG whispered softly, as he traced the city’s contours on her smooth body. “Her head is at Qîngpu, pointing to Sûzhôu, the land of old dreams. Her left hand is at Baoshân Qû, holding the hand of Mâzu, the goddess of the sea. Her right hand is at Jînshân Qû, crushing mountains of gold. Then there is Pudông. Pudông starts where her jade wheel crushes dew and ends with her toes touching the endless, restless water.”
–RECOMMENDED
(from - http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2013/...)
September 23, 2013
"Here be Dragons" Art exhibit at Ayala Museum
Jon Jaylo's beautiful surrealist paintings for my story "Here be Dragons" will be on exhibit at the artist's space of Ayala Museum from September 20 to 30, 2013. Here's a blurb from Rocket Kapre (Thanks Paolo!) - http://www.rocketkapre.com/2013/exhib...
July 22, 2013
Resurrection 2.0 featured on Expanded Horizons
Expanded Horizons Issue 40 is out and it features the extended version of my first published story Resurrection 2.0 - http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/...
