Collect Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology From The Philippines Crafted By Paolo Enrico Melendez Shown As Softcover

Philippines, a biodiversity hotspot fortopercent of the Earths animal and plant species, is the worlds third worst contributor to oceanic plastic pollution.
The countrys electricity rates are among the most expensive in Southeast Asia, owing to a heavy reliance on dirty and privatized energy sources.
Sea level rise around the archipelago exceeds the global average, And yearly, seasons become extreme, increasing risks to sectors such as agriculture, which accounts for over a quarter of the countrys total employment.


Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines is the first

collection of its kind in the country.
It is also the most forward in proposing a political voice to narrate the ecological crisis, Edited by Paolo Enrico Melendez and Kristine Ong Muslim and illustrated by Adam David, this anthology ofshort stories is designed to represent a reformed literature that speaks the bendable language of the present and the future.
Here is the slump and sprawl of civilizations consumption, Here is mutiny against individuality, against the spectacle and conceit of nationhood, Here, chroniclers of doom and demolished mythologies take on anthropogenic climate change,

Read original stories by Tilde Acuña, John Bengan, F Jordan Carnice, Erika M, Carreon, Adam David, Daryll Delgado, Roma Estrada, Mo Francisco, Christine V, Lao, Maryanne Moll, Joseph Nacino, Jude Ortega, Rae Rival, Sandra Nicole Roldan, Chiles Samaniego, Lakan Umali, and Eliza Victoria.
Because our stories about this world, as well as how and where we tell them, reveal a lot about ourselves and our manifold degrees of complicity.
And whatever changes we want to make during our paltry, fleeting existences begin with understanding what we have done.



Adam Davids cover art for Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines reorients what the human eye would naturally perceive as familiarand convenient.
The isolated Philippine map is an accurate truncation based on a sealevel rise ofmeters, It is slanted sideways to signify two things: a radical precession of the Earth both following and resulting in extreme climate change, and the imagined perception of plantlike intelligent lifeforms whose directional gaze corresponds not to the conventional North, but to the East: a literal “orientation” of the prevailing political dynamic favoring the occident.
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