Dean Francis Alfar

Exclusive Interview: Dean Francis Alfar

Philippine Genre Stories (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Charles Tan interviews Dean Francis Alfar over at SF Signal . Click here to read.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Dean Francis Alfar

SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] Dean Francis Alfar (born 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative...

Philippine Speculative Fiction V Update

Philippine Genre Stories (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... writers, both in the TOC and in the shortlist. Philippine Speculative Fiction V edited by Nikki Alfar and Vincent Michael Simbulan ‘A Game of Quam’ by Andrew Drilon ‘A New Hospital’ by Raymond G. Falgui ‘A Yellow Brick Road Valentine’ by Charles Tan ‘Carbon’ by Paolo Gabriel V. Chikiamco ‘Death and Noy’ by Fidelis Angela C. Tan...

Philippine Speculative Fiction V tentative Table of Contents

Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Philippine Speculative Fiction V edited by Nikki Alfar & Vincent Michael Simbulan Kestrel, 2010 (Feb release date) ‘A Game of Quam’ by Andrew Drilon ‘A New Hospital’ by Raymond G. Falgui ‘A Yellow Brick Road Valentine’ by Charles Tan ‘Carbon’ by Paolo Gabriel V. Chikiamco ‘Death and Noy’ by Fidelis Angela C. Tan ‘Embedding’...

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The Apex Book of World SF

14theditch (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

... Kaaron Warren (Australia/Fiji)--"Ghost Jail" Yang Ping (China)--"Wizard World" Dean Francis Alfar (Phillippines)--"L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)" Nir Yaniv (Israel)--"Cinderers" Jamil Nasir (Palenstine)--"The Allah Stairs" Tunku Halim (Malaysia)--"Biggest Baddest Bomoh" Aliette de Bodard (France)--"The...

Interview Index: The Apex Book of World SF

SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Here is a handy index to our interview series with most of the contributors to The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar: Guy Hasson Aliette de Bodard Jetse de Vries Melanie Fazi Kaaron Warren Aleksandar Žiljak Anil Menon Dean Francis Alfar Tunku Halim Han Song Jamil Nasir Nir Yaniv Zoran Živković Thanks to all the authors for taking part. And a special tip-of-the-hat...

November 19, 2009 Links and Plugs

Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

I'm generally pleased that local author Dean Francis Alfar gets mentioned in io9 (and my own website, the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler , gets a couple of hits; but do check it out because I like the stories there). In the meantime, I gush over one of my favorite international authors, Zoran Živković , over at SF Signal. Sorry folks, that's all the interviews...

Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of [Afternoon Reading]

io9 (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

If you love the work of Kelly Link, you owe it to yourself to check out "Six From Downtown," a collection of six vignettes about despair and alienation by Philippine writer Dean Francis Alfar. Plus,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The November 11, 2009 NBDB Panel: How To Read The Next Generation (Fiction)

Philippine Genre Stories (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

I attended the November 11, 2009 NBDB -sponsored talk (which I announced here ) on How To Read The Next Generation (Fiction) at the Filipinas Heritage Library . The panelists were (from left to right in the group photo above): Ed Samar , Tara Sering , Dean Francis Alfar , Sarge Lacuesta , and moderator Charlson Ong ( Jose Dalisay , who was the originally scheduled moderator, couldn't...

November 12, 2009 Links and Plugs

Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

I continue my SF Signal onslaught with my Dean Francis Alfar interview. Rocket Kapre launches its first webzine, Usok . Interviews Fantasy Magazine interviews Jesse Bullington . The Agony Column interviews Michael Swanwick . The Agony Column has a recording of the World Fantasy Convention: The Google Books Settlement (podcast). The Creative Penn interviews Philippa Ballantine,...

Where Science Fiction & Horror Collide

Write Lah! (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009

... y reviewed the book as a “medley of horror-tinged fantasy tales … focused and interesting are Dean Francis Alfar’s whimsical “The Kite of Stars,” which describes a journey across fantastical landscapes, and Tunku Halim’s “Biggest Baddest Bomoh,” where an office drone consults a deadly shaman for help with his love life.” And what is in store for our office drone, you ask? You...

Attention Span 2009 – Barbara Jane Reyes

Third Factory/Notes to Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

... Chinese Apple | Wesleyan University Press | 2000 Walter Lew, ed. | Premonitions | Kaya/Muae | 1995 Dean Francis Alfar | The Kite of Stars | Anvil Publishing | 2007 Linda Hogan | Dwellings | Norton | 2007 More Barbara Jane Reyes here .