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Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's

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Victor Fernando R. Ocampo is the author of the International Rubery Book Award shortlisted The Infinite Library and Other Stories (Math Paper Press, 2017 ; US edition: Gaudy Boy, 2021) and Here be Dragons (Canvas Press, 2015), which won the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Award in 2012. His play-by-email interactive fiction piece “The Book of Red Shadows” debuted at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2020.

His writing has appeared in many publications including Apex Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Future Fiction, Strange Horizons, Philippines Graphic, Science Fiction World and The Quarterly Literature Review of Singapore, as well as anthologies like The Best New Singapore Short Stories, Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction, LON ...more

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	Fish Eats Lion by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carrick Ang (Contributor), Ivan Ang (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infinite Library and Other Stories by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (Goodreads Author), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 85 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ayam Curtain by J.Y. Yang (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joyce Chng (Editor), Alvin Pang (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four by Pooja Nansi (Goodreads Author) (Guest Editor), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Balli Kaur Jaswal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Evan Adam Ang (Contributor), Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LONTAR #2 by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Founding Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Poetry Editor), E.C. Myers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trash: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology by Dean Francis Alfar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marc de Faoite (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Zedeck Siew (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume VI by Nikki Alfar (Editor), Kate Anton Osias (Editor), Dean Francis Alfar (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LONTAR #6 by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Founding Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Poetry Editor), Adan Jimenez (Goodreads Author) (Comics Editor) 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Be Dragons by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (Goodreads Author), Jon Jaylo (Illustrator), Rhandee Garlitos (Translator) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Book Birthday of "The Infinite Library and Other Stories"

It was the book birthday of “The Infinite Library and Other Stories” last 28 September. If you would like to get an advanced copy, it’s available at the independent bookstore BooksActually ahead of the launch at the Singapore Writers Festival (on Tuesday, November 7 from 8.30 pm – 9.30 pm at the Gallery II of The Arts House).

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“Love is the demiurge that builds substance from the elements of our lives.

From "Big Enough for the Entire Universe”
― Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Fish Eats Lion

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“With a combination of proper lighting and climate control he managed to achieve a different ecological niche in each gallery. In the African section, where the imbrications of Augustine, Mafouz and Okri lay decomposing, he grew sorghum and Dioscorea yams. In the Chinese gallery where the Tao Te Ching and countless Confucian annotations moldered, he grew rice, crab apples and barley. Over the poems of Neruda and Borges himself, he grew potatoes. Each plant in this new Eden he lovingly tainted with the virus of civilization

- from the short story "Resurrection”
― Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Philippine Speculative Fiction VI

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Sept/Oct 2022 Group Read: South/east Asia

The Infinite Library and Other Stories by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

4 votes, 30.8%

The Devourers by Indra Das

4 votes, 30.8%

Cyberpunk: Malaysia edited by Zen Cho

2 votes, 15.4%

The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha

2 votes, 15.4%

Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

1 vote, 7.7%

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“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

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“Love is the demiurge that builds substance from the elements of our lives.

From "Big Enough for the Entire Universe”
― Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, Fish Eats Lion

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