Eliza Victoria

"Regina was born and raised in the small town of Heridos, where gods and spirits walked the earth. Until they didn’t. Ten years ago, the whole town produced a bad harvest -- rice grains as black as soot -- and the people of the town moved on, away from the soil and the farms, believing the gods and spirits have abandoned them. It is ten years later, on a Friday before a long weekend, and Regina ends her shift at an office in Makati. She walks home with a new colleague named Diana. Diana, following a strange and disturbing conversation with Regina, does not appear at the office on Monday, and the day after that. And the day after that. On Thursday, Regina opens her bag and finds a folded piece of paper filled with Diana’s handwriting. On the page are two names and a strange map that will send Regina home."--Page 4 of cover.

A Novel

Wounded Little Gods

Aldy Aguirre

Winner of the Philippine National Book Award

Dwellers : A Novel

Immerse yourself in a fantasy world of Filipino myth, magic, and supernatural suspense! Lambana--the realm of supernatural fairies known as Diwata--has fallen, and the Magic Prohibition Act has been enacted. To add to his troubles, there's something wrong with Conrad's heart and only magic can prolong his life. He teams up with Ignacio, a well-connected friend who promises to hook him up with the Diwata and their magical treatments--a quest that's not only risky but highly illegal! On the shadowy, noir-tinged streets of Manila, multiple realities co-exist and intertwine as the two friends seek a cure for the magical malady. Slinky sirens and roaming wraith-like spirits populate a parallel world ruled by corruption and greed, which Conrad must enter to find the cure he seeks. He has little idea of the creatures he will encounter and the truths to be revealed along the way. Will Lambana spill its secrets and provide the healing balm Conrad needs? Or will he perish in the process? Fans of Neil Gaiman, Emil Ferris and Charles Burns will love this new graphic novel!

Myth and Magic in Manila

After Lambana: a Graphic Novel

Project 17

A Bottle of Storm Clouds Stories

Night Fall

Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother

When Anthony found Flo dead, locked overnight in one of the reading rooms of the university library, he knew it must have something to do with Mary Prestosa, a fourth-year graduating Philosophy student whom they had been investigating. Mary, who surprised her roommate one night by suddenly standing up from her bed, throwing the windows open, and jumping down headfirst to the dormitory grounds below. Mary, whose memory marked the trail of mysterious deaths and bizarre occurrences that followed her own fateful fall: the fifth-year Computer Engineering student who prowled the campus on all fours, thirsty for blood, believing he was a wolf; the revelation of an all-girls satanic cult; the demonic possession of a fourth-year student from the Department of Psychology; and now--Flo, dead. The students traced it all to Mary. They believed Mary didn't commit suicide. They believed Mary tapped into something dark, and released it, and was consumed. And Anthony was determined to pry out the truth.

A Novella

The Viewless Dark

Rule No. 1: You don't kill the body you inhabit.Rule No. 2: You should never again mention your previous name.Rule No. 3: You don't ever talk about your previous life. Ever.Two young men with the power to take over another body inhabit the bodies and lives of brothers Jonah and Louis. The takeover leads to a car crash, injuring Jonah's legs and forcing them to stay in the brothers' house for the time being.The street is quiet. The neighbors aren't nosy. Everything is okay.They are safe, for now.Until they find a dead body in the basement.

Dwellers

Something lives in a rotting house in the town of Santa Clara.

Emilia has not thought of this house for years, until a chance meeting with Alma, an old friend from her hometown.

When Alma suddenly dies, Emilia finds her way back to Santa Clara, to her circle of friends who rekindle memories of a bizarre ritual left unfinished.

Of a dark visitor who sits by their bed at night, of a being who won’t let them sleep.

Must they once again awaken whoever dwells in that lonely house?

Ascension

Questions of morality in exploring alternate realities; goddesses of old, living in modern-day Philippine society; the flesh trade in a dystopic future; four childhood friends, taunting fate by crossing the line between life and death, and coming back again; a world where Justice is immediate, absolute, and therefore deemed perfect--these are but some of the ideas to have sprung from the mind of up-and-coming writer Eliza Victoria. In A Bottle of Storm Clouds, Victoria's first compilation of short fiction, her subjects are a mottled bunch; her characters, of all walks of life; her approaches, from all directions. But her stories all boil down to one question: "What if?"

A Bottle of Storm Clouds

Apocalypses collects poems from Eliza Victoria's award-winning collections "Maps" (2011) and "Reportage" (2009), as well as poems that have previously appeared in various publications, including High Chair, Kritika Kultura, Room Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, and Stone Telling. *The US cover differs from the Philippine cover. The Philippine edition's cover was designed by Adam David.

Poems

Apocalypses

David Brin

Julie Novakova

Simone Heller

Su Min

Issue 8 of FUTURE SF is themed Medical SF and guest-edited by RM Ambrose. Table of contents: "Second Generation" by Julie Nováková (Czech Republic) "Panoptes" by Eliza Victoria (Philippines) "Keloid Dreams" by Simone Heller (Germany) "Chrysalis" by David Brin (USA) "The Post-Conscious Age" by Su Min (China) translated by Nathan Faries Non-fiction: The Other Reel review column by Paul Levinson

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 8

After Lambana

Voyage to Bathala and Other Stories collects four stories from Eliza Victoria, a prolific and commended writer who skillfully weaves genre fiction. This collection serves as a sampler of her prowess in writing horror, fantasy, and science fiction, featuring characters who find themselves looking for what isn't there, looking for answers, and looking for an escape.

Voyage to Bathala and Other Stories

When Anthony found Flo dead, locked overnight in one of the reading rooms of the university library, he knew it must have something to do with Mary Prestosa, a fourth-year graduating Philosophy student whom they had been investigating. Mary, who surprised her roommate one night by suddenly standing up from her bed, throwing the windows open, and jumping down headfirst to the dormitory grounds below. Mary, whose memory marked the trail of mysterious deaths and bizarre occurrences that followed her own fateful fall: the fifth-year Computer Engineering student who prowled the campus on all fours, thirsty for blood, believing he was a wolf; the revelation of an all-girls satanic cult; the demonic possession of a fourth-year student from the Department of Psychology; and now-Flo, dead. The students traced it all to Mary. They believed Mary didn't commit suicide. They believed Mary tapped into something dark, and released it, and was consumed. And Anthony was determined to pry out the truth.

Viewless Dark

This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away. The rules are strict and absolute: Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit. Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again. Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever. But what happens when, in escaping your old life by stealing a new one, you jump out of the frying pan and into the fire? Cousins from a clan of "dwellers"--people who inhabit the bodies and lives of others--become brothers when they take over the bodies of Jonah and Louis. An injury forces them to remain in the brothers' house, where they discover that the basement holds a dead body! As old and new secrets come to light, it becomes clear that every action always has consequences. Fans of Richard Morgan, Adam Silvera, and Blake Crouch's speculative fiction will adore Eliza Victoria's action-packed supernatural mystery. Winner of the Philippine National Book Award, Dwellers is the urban fantasy novel that you won't want to miss! Winner of the prestigious Philippine National Book Award!

Dwellers: A Novel

Ghosts in a mansion. A home invasion. A group of friends haunted by a murder. An unlikely friendship, a dead body in an abandoned house. A girl falling to her death, and another falling into the viewless darkness. Unseen Moon collects five suspenseful stories by award-winning author Eliza Victoria.

Five Stories

Unseen Moon

Lower Myths features two compelling novellas of contemporary fantasy from Eliza Victoria, one of the most talented young writers in Asian speculative fiction today. In "e;Trust Fund Babies,"e; children of two warring witch and fairy families face off in the final round to a centuries-old vendetta. In "e;The Very Last Case of Messrs. Aristotel and Arkimedes Magtanggol,"e; an aristocrat and his daughter consult a famous lawyer-sibling pair about a mysterious crime. But in the lawyers' hilltop mansion by the sea, they uncover sinister hints that their reality may not be what it seems.

Eliza Victoria

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