The Drone Outside

Watching the end of the world through the cracks. Small windows on massive events - on a doomed civilization drawing its last breaths. A sense of universal decay and collapse conveyed in the smallest of canvasses.This collection by Kristine Ong Muslim, an author from the Philippines, gathers nine delicate miniatures that pack a strong emotional punch. Stylistically they are rooted in apocalyptic sci-fi and supernatural horror but they are told with a post-modern and surreal touch - like macro photographs of the world's end.

About the Author

Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), and several other books of fiction and poetry. She is coeditor of three anthologies--the British Fantasy Award-winning People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! (2016), Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines (forthcoming from Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press), and Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021). Widely anthologized, Muslim's short stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital, Tin House, and World Literature Today. She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines.

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