The distance to Andromeda and other stories

by Gregorio C. Brillantes

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

254 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Gregorio C. Brillantes, a Palanca Award Hall of Famer and a multi-awarded fiction writer,[1] is one of the Philippines' most popular writers in English.
Known for his sophisticated and elegant style. He often writes about individuals under thirty, adolescent or post adolescent ones who struggle with alienation from family, society and from themselves. His earlier collection of short stories earned him the title of the "Catholic Writer". But elements of the fantastic also come in his works. In the 2006 Graphic/Fiction Awards, the main local sponsor of the contest, specialty book shop Fully Booked, acknowledged Brillantes as one of the godfathers of fantastic literature in English by naming the first category the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose.

Reviews

[Thea]

Tangina di ko naman makita yung book gago

[june · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[elderfoil...the whatever champion · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favorite Stories:

Faith, Love, Time, & Dr. Lazaro
The Girl Elena
Blue Piano

The Living and the Dead

The Mountains
My Cousin Ramon
The Radio and the Green Meadows
Lost
The Beautiful Gerrls
A Wind Over the Earth
The Rice Fields

[Ivan Labayne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Am I in luck that I read this after "The Apollo Centennial" anthology? How unlucky I am that I chose not to lock myself in that little (a book of seven, eight stories) yet immense Brillantes anthology? Even the well-known "Distance to Andromeda," frustrated me here, not even flustered me in a nice way. The characters here are almost dead, and the author is pretending to unveil us thickness (via the sheer amount of words) when all he's doing is an enumeration of useless facades.

[Ivanne]

its nice

[Michelle Angela]

fwse