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Singa-pura-pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

Singa-pura-pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

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From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Bahrawi brings together an exciting selection of never-before translated and new Malay spec-fic stories by established and emerging writers from Singapore. 

Especially in an anglophone-dominated genre, very little of Malay speculative fiction from Singapore is known to readers here and beyond. Yet contemporary Bahasa literature here is steeped in spec-fic writing that can account as a literary movement (aliran)—and unmistakably draws from the minority Malay experience in a city obsessed with progress.

20% of the profits will be donated to Queer Friendly Chers, to support queer educators and students in Singapore, so you'll be doing good while shopping!

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