{"product_id":"destination-sea-2050-a-d-paperback","title":"Destination: Sea 2050 A.D. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmado Anthony G. Mendoza III\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTilde Acuña\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKristine Ong Muslim\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA scintillating futurist sprawl through and within the Southeast Asian ecological apocalypse of the year 2050\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDestination: SEA 2050 A.D.\u003c\/em\u003e is the first Southeast Asian fiction anthology that imagines--based on scientific projections--the world of the year 2050, the same year when ninety per cent of the planet's coral reefs are expected to decline, when plastic is found inside ninety-nine per cent of all the world's seabirds, when there is severe water shortage in Asia, when growth in the world's populations stops, and when the elderly outnumber children in most places on Earth. \u003cbr\u003eShort stories and graphic narratives from Duanwad Pimwana, Vincent Lapuz, Sokunthary Svay, Mui Poopoksakul, Kathrina Mohd Daud, Tunku Halim, Rio Johan, Tr?n Th? NgH, Paul Christiansen, Nguy?n Lâm Th?o Thi, Julius Villanueva, Edgar Calabia Samar, Francezca Kwe, Bryan Thao Worra--a veritable literary supergroup from all over Southeast Asia and with each story painstakingly annotated--will paint a vivid, often disquieting but at times hopeful, vision of an environmental futurist spread. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmado Anthony G. Mendoza III is the author of the novel, \u003cem\u003eAklat ng mga Naiwan\u003c\/em\u003e (Book of the Damned, Balangiga Press, 2018), co-editor and co-translator of Wiji Thukul's \u003cem\u003eBalada ng Bala\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e(The Ballad of a Bullet)\u003c\/em\u003e, and translator of an upcoming Filipino-language edition of Eka Kurniawan's collection of stories to be published by the Ateneo de Naga University Press. He teaches courses on Southeast Asian literature and creative writing at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature in the University of the Philippines Diliman. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTilde Acuña, author of \u003cem\u003eOroboro at Iba Pang Abiso\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eOroboro and other Notices\u003c\/em\u003e, University of the Philippines Press, 2020), teaches at the Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature in the University of the Philippines Diliman. The illustrator for Marlon Hacla's \u003cem\u003eMelismas\u003c\/em\u003e (Oomph Press, 2020), Acuña is a co-editor of \u003cem\u003eUlirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines\u003c\/em\u003e (Gaudy Boy, 2021) and several other upcoming anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKristine Ong Muslim is the author of nine books of fiction and poetry, including \u003cem\u003eThe Drone Outside\u003c\/em\u003e (Eibonvale Press, 2017), \u003cem\u003eBlack Arcadia\u003c\/em\u003e (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), \u003cem\u003eMeditations of a Beast\u003c\/em\u003e (Cornerstone Press, 2016), \u003cem\u003eButterfly Dream\u003c\/em\u003e (Snuggly Books, 2016), \u003cem\u003eAge of Blight\u003c\/em\u003e (Unnamed Press, 2016), and \u003cem\u003eLifeboat\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772657959200,"sku":"9789815017779","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/db4345aca99d891efe1d88747f61cdad.webp?v=1780410678","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/destination-sea-2050-a-d-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}