Lundberg, Jason Erik
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1975- ) US author and editor, in Singapore since 2007, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Songstress" in Electric Velocipede for Fall 2003. Further stories appeared in numerous venues, the author's first collection being Red Dot Irreal: Equatorial Fantastika (coll 2011) [see Checklist below for subsequent titles]. He has edited a number of Anthologies, many promoting new sf and Fantastika from his adopted country and Southeast Asia in general: these include the substantial Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction (anth 2012) and the ten-volume LONTAR series, variously coedited with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim and beginning with LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #1 (anth 2013) with Kristine Ong Muslim.
Lundberg's novella Diary of One Who Disappeared (2019) and his first full-length novel A Fickle and Restless Weapon (2020) inhabit the Tinhau Sequence set in the richly imagined Southeast Asian country of Tinhau, which first appeared in the short "Complications of the Flesh" (Spring 2012 Bull Spec). The novella, set in the Near Future of 2040, centres on a North American envoy to Tinhau, the aftermath of whose failed mission entangles him in increasingly surreal complexities. A Fickle and Restless Weapon's wide-ranging depiction of the land's political and social turmoil – intruded upon by a mysterious destroying force in the guise of a cloud formation – is tinged with weirdness and a kind of Magic Realism; this novel has been compared to the works of Don DeLillo and Jeff VanderMeer. [DRL]
Jason Erik Lundberg
born New York: 3 October 1975
works
series
Tinhau Sequence
- Diary of One Who Disappeared (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2019) [novella: Tinhau Sequence: pb/Victoria Lee]
- A Fickle and Restless Weapon (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2020) [Tinhau Sequence: pb/Priscilla Wong]
collections and stories
- Four Seasons in One Day (Raleigh, North Carolina: Two Cranes Press, 2003) with Janet Chui as Janet Jia-Ee Chui [coll: chap: pb/Janet Jia-Ee Chui]
- Red Dot Irreal: Equatorial Fantastika (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2011) [coll: pb/Jasmine Tan]
- The Alchemy of Happiness (Wivenhoe, Essex: infinity plus, 2012) [coll: pb/Keith Brooke]
- Strange Mammals (Wivenhoe, Essex: infinity plus, 2013) [coll: pb/from Leonardo da Vinci]
- Most Excellent and Lamentable: Selected Stories (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2019) [coll: pb/Victoria Lee]
nonfiction
- Embracing the Strange: The Transformative Impact of Speculative Fiction (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2013) [nonfiction: chap: in the publisher's Babette's Feast Chapbooks series: pb/Shellen Teh]
works as editor
series
LONTAR
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #1 (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2013) with Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Sarah and Schooling]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #2 (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2014) with Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Sarah and Schooling]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #3 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2014) with Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Sarah and Schooling]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #4 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2015) with Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Yong Wen Yeu]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #5 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2015) with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Edward Musiak]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #6 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2016) with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Lydia Wong]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #7 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2016) with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Lydia Wong]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #8 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2017) with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Lydia Wong]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #9 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2017) with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: LONTAR: pb/Lydia Wong]
- LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction #10 (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2018) with Adan Jimenez and Kristine Ong Muslim [anth: billed on cover as "double-sized final issue": LONTAR: pb/Yong Wen Yeu]
The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories
Not restricted to speculative fiction, but each volume contains sf.
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2013) [anth: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: pb/Lydia Wong]
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2015) [anth: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: pb/Lydia Wong]
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2017) with Cyril Wong [anth: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: pb/Yong Wen Yeu]
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2019) with Pooja Nansi [anth: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: pb/Diane Lim]
- Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2021) with Balli Kaur Jaswal [anth: Best New Singaporean Short Stories: pb/Annisa Lintang Suminar]
individual titles as editor
- Scattered, Covered, Smothered (Raleigh, North Carolina: Two Cranes Press, 2004) [anth: pb/Janet Chui]
- A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Singapore: Two Cranes Press, 2008) with Janet Chui [anth: chap: mock nonfiction essays about imaginary plants: pb/Janet Chui]
- Fish Eats Lion: New Singaporean Speculative Fiction (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2012) [anth: pb/Shellen Teh]
- Best Singaporean Short Stories 1 (London: Epigram Books UK, 2020) [anth: pb/Jael Ng]
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