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Mythspace: Lift Off
Kapre. Nuno. Manananggal.
They are monsters of the past, remnants of primitive fantasies.
UFOs. Aliens. Extraterrestrials.
They are hallucinations, creations of modern science fiction.
Or are they?
Evidence unearth is debunked...or disappears. Witnesses who speak are ridiculed...or silenced.
We are alone, say our leaders.
There are no Manananggal that consume our children. There are no Kapres who watch in the night.
There are no aliens that abduct our neighbors. There are no UFOs with dazzling lights.
We were never alone.
These are not your Lola's monsters.
These are not your children's aliens.
They are one and the same. They are here.
They are monsters of the past, remnants of primitive fantasies.
UFOs. Aliens. Extraterrestrials.
They are hallucinations, creations of modern science fiction.
Or are they?
Evidence unearth is debunked...or disappears. Witnesses who speak are ridiculed...or silenced.
We are alone, say our leaders.
There are no Manananggal that consume our children. There are no Kapres who watch in the night.
There are no aliens that abduct our neighbors. There are no UFOs with dazzling lights.
We were never alone.
These are not your Lola's monsters.
These are not your children's aliens.
They are one and the same. They are here.
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First published October 27, 2012
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About the author
Paolo Chikiamco
34 books56 followersA lawyer by training and a writer by inclination, in 2009 Paolo resigned from one of the top law firms in the country to establish Eight Ray Sun Publishing Inc., driven to take advantage of the burgeoning ebook market to allow Filipino Speculative Fiction authors a chance, not only to reach an international audience, but to eventually make a living from writing.
Paolo’s articles have appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Online Chronicles, and Code RED Magazine. His stories have appeared in the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, A Time for Dragons, and the Farthest Shore. He won third place in the 2009 Carlos Palanca Awards in the Short Story for Children (English) category. His greatest escapade was sneaking in to watch Total Recall when he was 12 years old. It was totally not worth it.
Paolo’s articles have appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Online Chronicles, and Code RED Magazine. His stories have appeared in the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, A Time for Dragons, and the Farthest Shore. He won third place in the 2009 Carlos Palanca Awards in the Short Story for Children (English) category. His greatest escapade was sneaking in to watch Total Recall when he was 12 years old. It was totally not worth it.
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January 30, 2015
If one is to write a self-published comic book in the future, one could not go wrong with an instantly iconic image like Mythspace had for its first ever issue. Just look at the cover, it is quite sublime.
November 19, 2013
What else can you say about the monsters of Philippine folklore? How else to make their tales fresh, push the envelope, how else to make them exciting? Paolo Chikiamco asked this questions (maybe?) and came up with the perfect answer: bring the aswang to space. The premise opens up so many possibilities, injecting a truly Filipino spirit to the Western tropes of the space opera.
This is cliche, but: Mythspace is a triumph of the imagination. (Translation: I am envious, Pao! Why didn't I think of this???)
Great art by Koi Carreon.
This is cliche, but: Mythspace is a triumph of the imagination. (Translation: I am envious, Pao! Why didn't I think of this???)
Great art by Koi Carreon.
November 13, 2012
Original post at One More Page
You know how I said that I probably would not drop by Komikon if the Trese 5 release wasn't announced? I take it back -- I realize that I would have probably gone there anyway, just to support Paolo's newest release, Mythspace . It's not that I did not know about his newest project. I heard of it, but I was too busy in the past weeks before Komikon to check the Mythspace Monday posts he had up on his blog leading to the release. In a way that is a blessing in disguise, because now that I've read the sampler they released last Komikon, I'm catching up on the posts which I hope will tide me over until Mythspace fully launches.
What is Mythspace , anyway? Pao talks about it in detail in this post, but if you want the quick, one-line summary: Mythspace is what happens when Philippine folklore meets science fiction, specifically aliens. This new series plays on the idea that the creatures we know from folk tales and movies not simply monsters from our grandparents' stories, but you know, creatures from outer space. Sounds crazy, yes?
But you know what? It actually works.
Mythspace #0 is the preview issue for the science fiction anthology. Here we can read a bit of two stories from the anthology, as well as preview of the art from the different illustrators: Koi Carreon, Borg Sinaban, Jules Gregorio, Mico Dimagiba, Cristina Rose Chua, Paul Quiroga. I'm not a good judge of art, but I liked that each story seemed to have its own personality because of the artist. I also liked reading the previews for the two longest stories there, with Liftoff having that mystery-in-space type of story with a somewhat angst-ridden hero, and Unfurling of Wings reminding me so much of the chimaera world in Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone. There's also a bit of information on the aliens we will meet in the issues. My favorites are the Kapre and the Manananggal - somehow, these versions are less scary than what I heard from stories growing up.
Overall, I loved this preview. The booklet is short, so everything ends before you feel like you really know things, but it's a good thing because I am totally looking forward to the release of the first installment of the anthology in 2013. Now I'm pretty sure that the world will not (and cannot!) end on December 2012 -- after all, we still need to have the rest of the Mythspace anthology in our grubby little hands. :)
You know how I said that I probably would not drop by Komikon if the Trese 5 release wasn't announced? I take it back -- I realize that I would have probably gone there anyway, just to support Paolo's newest release, Mythspace . It's not that I did not know about his newest project. I heard of it, but I was too busy in the past weeks before Komikon to check the Mythspace Monday posts he had up on his blog leading to the release. In a way that is a blessing in disguise, because now that I've read the sampler they released last Komikon, I'm catching up on the posts which I hope will tide me over until Mythspace fully launches.
What is Mythspace , anyway? Pao talks about it in detail in this post, but if you want the quick, one-line summary: Mythspace is what happens when Philippine folklore meets science fiction, specifically aliens. This new series plays on the idea that the creatures we know from folk tales and movies not simply monsters from our grandparents' stories, but you know, creatures from outer space. Sounds crazy, yes?
But you know what? It actually works.
Mythspace #0 is the preview issue for the science fiction anthology. Here we can read a bit of two stories from the anthology, as well as preview of the art from the different illustrators: Koi Carreon, Borg Sinaban, Jules Gregorio, Mico Dimagiba, Cristina Rose Chua, Paul Quiroga. I'm not a good judge of art, but I liked that each story seemed to have its own personality because of the artist. I also liked reading the previews for the two longest stories there, with Liftoff having that mystery-in-space type of story with a somewhat angst-ridden hero, and Unfurling of Wings reminding me so much of the chimaera world in Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone. There's also a bit of information on the aliens we will meet in the issues. My favorites are the Kapre and the Manananggal - somehow, these versions are less scary than what I heard from stories growing up.
Overall, I loved this preview. The booklet is short, so everything ends before you feel like you really know things, but it's a good thing because I am totally looking forward to the release of the first installment of the anthology in 2013. Now I'm pretty sure that the world will not (and cannot!) end on December 2012 -- after all, we still need to have the rest of the Mythspace anthology in our grubby little hands. :)
April 11, 2015
This story aims to tackle differently on familiar things that we had come to know as a child. Things such as our knowledge on our local mythological creatures are theorized to be aliens in this story. The author has really given us a different spectrum and wild idea of how aliens could look like.
This is one of the few titles wherein it is an original concept that is good to follow.
More of my review at:
http://onemantra.blogspot.com/2014/01...
This is one of the few titles wherein it is an original concept that is good to follow.
More of my review at:
http://onemantra.blogspot.com/2014/01...
April 11, 2015
This story aims to tackle differently on familiar things that we had come to know as a child. Things such as our knowledge on our local mythological creatures are theorized to be aliens in this story. The author has really given us a different spectrum and wild idea of how aliens could look like.
This is one of the few titles wherein it is an original concept that is good to follow.
More of my review at:
http://onemantra.blogspot.com/2014/01...
This is one of the few titles wherein it is an original concept that is good to follow.
More of my review at:
http://onemantra.blogspot.com/2014/01...
April 11, 2015
This story aims to tackle differently on familiar things that we had come to know as a child. Things such as our knowledge on our local mythological creatures are theorized to be aliens in this story. The author has really given us a different spectrum and wild idea of how aliens could look like.
This is one of the few titles wherein it is an original concept that is good to follow.
More of my review at:
http://onemantra.blogspot.com/2014/01...
This is one of the few titles wherein it is an original concept that is good to follow.
More of my review at:
http://onemantra.blogspot.com/2014/01...
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