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A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila and Other Stories

A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila and Other Stories

Penned By Dean Francis Alfar
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A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila and Other Stories

A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila and Other Stories

Penned By Dean Francis Alfar
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A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila is a map to the worlds of award-winning fictionist Dean Francis Alfar's imagination. The real and the unreal intersect in these fifteen stories of fantasy, science fiction and horror, and celebrate the wonder of speculative fiction.

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Length 176 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Anvil Publishing Inc.
Released September 16, 2015
Identifier (ISBN) 26167829
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