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Dean Francis Alfar

Autor/a de Salamanca

22+ obres 130 Membres 3 Ressenyes

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Inclou aquests noms: Dean Alfar (ed), Dean Francis Alfar

Crèdit de la imatge: by Dean Francis Alfar

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Obres de Dean Francis Alfar

Salamanca (2006) 25 exemplars
The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2005-2010 (2013) — Editor; Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 1 (2012) — Editor; Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Philippine Speculative Fiction IV (2009) — Editor — 8 exemplars
Siglo: Freedom 6 exemplars
TRASH: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology (2016) — Editor — 6 exemplars
Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 2 — Editor; Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
The Kite of Stars 5 exemplars
Philippine Speculative Fiction III (2005) — Editor — 3 exemplars
Siglo: Passion (2005) 3 exemplars
The Farthest Shore: An Anthology of Fantasy Fiction from the Philippines (2014) — Editor; Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Maximum Volume (2014) 2 exemplars
Project: Hero 1 exemplars
Terminós 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Col·laborador — 562 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Col·laborador — 233 exemplars
The Apex Book of World SF (2009) — Col·laborador — 148 exemplars
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020) — Col·laborador — 108 exemplars
The Bestiary (2016) — Col·laborador — 58 exemplars
Alternative Alamat (2011) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens (2015) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
A Time for Dragons: An Anthology of Phillipine Draconic Fiction (2009) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo (2008) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Exotic Gothic 3 Strange Visitations (2009) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Rabid Transit: Menagerie — Col·laborador, algunes edicions5 exemplars
Philippine Speculative Fiction 5 — Pròleg; Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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I am overwhelmed with Pinoy's talent and imagiantion. Here is evidence that we can make it internationally. Each story is different and it feels like teaser trailers. They leave me wanting more. I do hope they release full-length stories/novels. My top three stories are:

3. Villanoiguing by Joseph Anthony Montecillo - humorous!
2. Prisoner 2501 by John Philip Corpuz - this one is sad and really cool concept.
1. Carpaccio (or, Repentance as a Meat Recipe) - scary! creepy! but really good and full of emotions.

I just noticed that Pinoy writers love to use BIG words and weird story formats. Impressive but chooses audiences/ readers.
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krizia_lazaro | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 16, 2014 |
A varied anthology, with some stories deeply embedded in their Philippine settings and others with only tenuous signs.
 
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rmagahiz | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Dec 21, 2013 |
Dean Francis Alfar's novel Salamanca (2006) is a (quite short) piece of magic realism that stretches across much of the life of its central protagonist and through several decades of the Philippines' history. I've been slightly imprecise in that sentence because, while one spends perhaps as much as the first three-quarters of the book believing that, even during some longish periods when he is off-stage, the central protagonist is the oversexed writer Gaudencio Rivera, towards the end of the book, in a feat of tricksterism that made at least this reader grin appreciatively, one discovers this assumption was misplaced.

The book is full of plots, but the one that holds the others together concerns Gaudencio Rivera's discovery in Tagbaoran, a remote small town in the Philippines' island province of Palawan, of Jacinta, a young woman of such incandescent beauty that she has turned all the walls of her house to glass; of his desertion of her eleven days after their as-yet unconsummated marriage; of his decision years later to have children of whom he determines she must be the mother; of her initial reluctance to countenance the prospect; and of her eventual rediscovery of happiness through this unorthodox relationship so that, finally, she rediscovers also the beauty of her youth. There's a very, very great deal more to the book than these bare bones; indeed, it's astonishing how much Alfar manages to stuff into 160 pages or so.

It's a very writerly novel, too, despite that brevity, and I can't imagine any writer reading it without at least sneakily identifying with Rivera on occasion -- as when, in his youth, his lust (or could it possibly be love?) for Jacinta causes words and phrases and imagery to erupt orgasmically from every part of his body. Yet, as I say, at the end of the novel you realize the story isn't really about him at all.

Another discovery is the meaning of the book's title. I'd assumed it was a placename, and was slightly bemused by the fact that no reference to the Spanish city ever turned up, or even seemed remotely likely to do so. It was only on page 126 that I came across this passage:

He [Rivera:] created powerful fantasies set in a reimagined Philippines, circa the time of Spanish rule, imbuing the land he called Hinirang, the Land Longed For, with tikbalang half-breeds that warred against their greedy oppressors; natives who went on impossible quests in the name of unattainable love and other abstract ideals; and wondrous galleons that soared through the skies fueled by salamanca, the mysterious magic of the gods of sky, field, and sea.

So in a way the title is yet another of Alfar's conjuring tricks.

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JohnGrant1 | Aug 11, 2013 |

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LeVar Burton Narrator

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Obres
22
També de
14
Membres
130
Popularitat
#155,342
Valoració
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Ressenyes
3
ISBN
23
Llengües
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