Altered Straits
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Longlisted for Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2015Ā
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Get the E-book on Amazon or Google PlayĀ Ā Listen to the audiobookIn an alternate 1947 filled with mystical creatures, Singapuran boy-soldier Naufal Jazair is bonded to the merlion Bahana and enlisted in a war against an aggressive neighbour. Meanwhile, in a dystopian Singapore in 2047, SAF officer Titus Ang is tasked with entering Naufalās universe and retrieving a merlion to save the future of Singapore from the Concordance, a hive intelligence that is close to consuming what remains of humanity.
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āA powerful monster of a novel. Intertwining myth and history, gender and sexuality, human and animal,Ā Altered StraitsĀ adds its own unique voice to the growing tradition of speculative fiction in Singaporean writing.ā
āPhilip Holden, author ofĀ Heaven Has EyesĀ and Professor of English, National University of SingaporeāA compulsively readable melding of SF and fantasy, intelligent and entertaining, with a refreshingly different world view.ā
āEric Brown, author of Helix Wars -
Kevin Martens Wong is a linguistics major at the National University of Singapore and the editor-in-chief of Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine. He won the NUS Creative Writing Competition in 2015 for his short story āA Merlion for His Majestyā, and his work has been published in Entlitled magazine. In his spare time, he also works to revitalise the endangered Kristang language in Singapore. He loves books, bicycles, cats, languages, science fiction, most marine mammals and the colour orange, and hopes to become the worldās first astrolinguist before advanced human civilisation ceases to exist in 2039.
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- Description
- Praise
- About the Author
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Longlisted for Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2015Ā
Look inside the book
Get the E-book on Amazon or Google PlayĀ Ā Listen to the audiobookIn an alternate 1947 filled with mystical creatures, Singapuran boy-soldier Naufal Jazair is bonded to the merlion Bahana and enlisted in a war against an aggressive neighbour. Meanwhile, in a dystopian Singapore in 2047, SAF officer Titus Ang is tasked with entering Naufalās universe and retrieving a merlion to save the future of Singapore from the Concordance, a hive intelligence that is close to consuming what remains of humanity.
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āA powerful monster of a novel. Intertwining myth and history, gender and sexuality, human and animal,Ā Altered StraitsĀ adds its own unique voice to the growing tradition of speculative fiction in Singaporean writing.ā
āPhilip Holden, author ofĀ Heaven Has EyesĀ and Professor of English, National University of SingaporeāA compulsively readable melding of SF and fantasy, intelligent and entertaining, with a refreshingly different world view.ā
āEric Brown, author of Helix Wars -
Kevin Martens Wong is a linguistics major at the National University of Singapore and the editor-in-chief of Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine. He won the NUS Creative Writing Competition in 2015 for his short story āA Merlion for His Majestyā, and his work has been published in Entlitled magazine. In his spare time, he also works to revitalise the endangered Kristang language in Singapore. He loves books, bicycles, cats, languages, science fiction, most marine mammals and the colour orange, and hopes to become the worldās first astrolinguist before advanced human civilisation ceases to exist in 2039.
