Comments on: RRT: Favorite Philippine Speculative Fiction Story

By: adam!

adam! — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:33:44 +0000

he’s working on a novel. he has a few stories out there, either online or in print, so me mahahanap naman. cholo goitia! finish the novel already.

By: paolo

paolo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:26:16 +0000

I’ll have to follow him more closely then! Does he have a collection out or is he working on one?

By: adam!

adam! — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:36:14 +0000

i’ll second emotion the vote for cholo’s “An Introduction to the Luminescent.” cholo’s one of the few few few fictionists that UST & the thomasian writers guild have actually managed to produce, and also one of the few few few fictionists writing right now who are actually producing work that are smart, funny, opinionated, and all that bullshit cliche we all hear about good writing. he’s actually producing work that matters. he wrote one of the seven days in our week-long project, and is actually one of my three favourites (the others being ken ishikawa’s and vlad gonzales’). cholo’s a pretty slow writer, but is always worth the wait.

By: paolo

paolo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:39:37 +0000

Hi Don! Thanks for this – I know of “Dreaming Valhalla” but hadn’t heard of “A Reply to a Query” before (A quick google search rectified that ^_^)

By: don

don — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:03:59 +0000

Doug Candano’s Dreaming Valhalla and A Reply to a Query are both awesome

By: paolo

paolo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:34:07 +0000

I loved that one too! But then again, that story has an advantage because I was a huge fan of Warren Ellis’ Planetary at the time that I read that Trese issue. I can’t wait to read the third graphic novel, especially since all those stories will be brand spankin’ new!

And I second the motion re: Andrew’s “lost” work… Adam sold it well ^_^

By: eliza

eliza — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:58:31 +0000

A Davao based teacher and author, Dominique is a self-proclaimed geek, and says he was a geek before it was fashionable.

Okay, that made me laugh. )

I just want to say that thanks to the link here, I was able to finally (finally!) read Trese. I love love love it. “Our Secret Constellation” (http://tresekomix.blogspot.com/2006/04/our-secret-constellation-complete.html) is one of my favorites.

Also? Drilon’s Pericos Tao sounds mighty interesting.

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