#100SEASFF in a Year (Or Urban Spec Fic, if you need the specifics)

If you told me a decade and a half ago that there’s hardly any speculative or urban fiction in Singapore or in Southeast Asia, I would’ve believed you. If you told me the same thing today, I’d say you’re either uninformed or just picky.

In an effort to read more and introduce as many of you to the many speculative, urban, and adventure stories from this part of the world, I’ll be embarking on a quest to read 100 speculative / urban / adventure fiction books set in, and by authors who are based in Southeast Asia.

The criteria was simple:

1. The author had to be based in Southeast Asia or be from Southeast Asia
   
2. It had to be urban / speculative / adventure fiction
   
3. I had to be entertained
   

The January Stack.

Not a very long list, but here are some of the books I’ll be picking up (among many others):

1. Terry Ho’s “The Forbidden Hill Chronicles”
2. Joyce Chng’s “Rider” duology
3. JY Yang’s “Tensorate” series
4. Wena Poon’s “Snow Fox & Sword Girl” trilogy
5. Comics by Benjamin Chee, Max Loh, Derek Chua, Tanky, and many others
6. Anthologies like “The SEA is Ours”, “Ayam Curtain”, and “Tales from a Tiny Room”
7. Young Adult fiction by Joyce Chua, Don Bosco, and many others

And that’s only scraping the top of the list. I’ll be posting what I’ll be reading for the over the year on my Instagram (@joelynalexandra), but you can also join in and check out the other books I’ll be reading with the hashtag #100SEASFF.

Happy reading and see you! (Hopefully with your nose in a book)