I grew up in Australia, so I didn’t find any Filipino characters in the stories I read until I was 16. 2) A wish to find speculative stories with people like me in them. It creates a starting point for a bittersweet coming of age tale, which also brings together two wishes from my childhood: 1) A wish to fly combined with my love for mythic creatures. This collection opens with Timothy Dimacali’s ‘On The Consequence of Sound,’ which is prefaced with a legend around sky whales floating over Mount Taal in Philippines. It holds a wondrous handful of speculative stories. The Sea is Ours was everything I could have asked for and more. It was refreshing and eye-opening to read steampunk stories from a non-eurocentric perspective. Source: ARC via Netgalley & Rosarium Publishing The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia The Sea Is Ours is an exciting new anthology that features stories infused with the spirits of Southeast Asia’s diverse peoples, legends, and geography. Technology and tradition meld as the people adapt to the changing forces of their world. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat people find a new home on the edge of a different dimension.
Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday.
Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology
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