Recreating the World in Twenty-First-Century Philippine Chinese Speculative Fiction

This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning move ment were included in the anthol ogy Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology(2012), edited by Charles A. Tan. These authors find spec u la tive fic tion a fruit ful genre for com- bin ing Western lit er ary tech niques and mate rial gleaned from Philippine myth and folk lore.