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The Weight of Our Sky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

The Weight of Our Sky

Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

KL NOIR: MAGIC
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

KL NOIR: MAGIC

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Buku Fixi

KL NOIR: MAGIC marks the resurrection of the notorious KL Noir series. The editor Deric Ee selects 20 original stories that bring you through the crimes and tribulations of life in Kuala Lumpur. There will be a bar hostess with a secret, a crisis in a minibus, well-dressed pontianaks, junkies discovering a new high, vampire slayers, and even an honest taxi driver. This time round, redemption may no longer be such an elusive thing…. Featuring stories by: Lily Jamaludin, Collin Yeoh, Bissme. S, Muthusamy Pon Ramiah, Terence Toh, P. Maheswary, Hong Jinghann, Nadia Mikail, Nat Kang, Masami Mustaza, Lee Chow Ping, Nazreen Abraham Stein, Joshua Lim, Shaleen Surendra, Sharmilla Ganesan, Rizal Ramli, Lim Vin Tsen, Derek Kho, Fadzlishah Johanabas and Sukhbir Cheema. (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)

CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-13
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  • Publisher: Buku Fixi

Cyberpunk as you've never seen it before… Science fiction is all about outrageous ideas. Nice Malay girls breaking the rules. Censorship. Brain drain. Moral policing. Migrant exploitation. All the stuff of fiction, obviously. But these 14 short stories take it one step further. The nice Malay girls are cyborgs. The spambots are people. The brains have drained into cyberspace, and the censorship is inside your head. Welcome to Cyberpunk: Malaysia. (Contents in this ebook are exactly the same as the print version, just with a different cover.) Line-Up: Underneath Her Tudung / Angeline Woon Codes / Anna Tan Personal / Sharmilla Ganesan Attack of The Spambots / Terence Toh ONE HUNDRED YEARS: Machine / Rafil Elyas What the Andromaid Reads at Night / Ted Mahsun KAKAK / William Tham Wai Liang The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall / Kris Williamson The Twins / Adiwijaya Iskandar October 11 / Chin Ai-May Undercover in Tanah Firdaus / Tina Isaacs Unusual Suspects / Tariq Kamal The White Mask / Zedeck Siew Extracts from DMZINE #13 (January 2115) / Foo Sek Han (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)

SON COMPLEX
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

SON COMPLEX

Aaron, a 23 year-old American, comes to Malaysia for the first time. His mission: to meet Nasri Aziz, the politician he believes is his biological father. A man who has no idea Aaron even exists. Encouraged by the letters of his late mother Nora, Aaron seeks to find out more about her life in Malaysia in the 1980s. Aaron's arrival comes as a complete surprise not only to Nasri but his wife (who wants to be known only as Datin) and son Iskandar, a teenager who leads a darker double life. While working to gain their trust, Aaron discovers a complex background of secrets and lies. And it is up to Sundari, the controversial NGO activist who was Nora's confidante in Malaysia, to reveal the shocking truth. (Buku Fixi)

KL Noir
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

KL Noir

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

KL NOIR: Red is the first of 4 volumes about the Malaysian capital city's dark side. There are 14 short stories and one essay about the seedy, the sinister and sometimes the spooky. You will find murder, drug-dealing, kidnapping, sexual depravity, prostitution, celebrity secrets, suicides, academic rivalry, gangsters, police brutality, cannibalism, black magic, creepy rituals, political corruption and even busking. It's all totally fictional. Well, maybe the cannibalism is.

TROPICAL MADNESS
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

TROPICAL MADNESS

From the gritty back streets of Kay El to the remotest rubber estates, from fishing boats to food courts, from ancient rainforests to air-conditioned shopping malls and condominiums, the eighteen enthralling stories in Tropical Madness explore varied aspects of Malaysia. Whether set in the kampung or the city these are insightful and evocative stories of a country where dark magic coexists with gleaming technology. Marc de Faoite sensitively deals with some of the realities of modern Malaysia and gives voice to a mix of marginalized and overlooked sectors of Malaysia's population, including immigrants, transsexuals, fishermen, ethnic minorities and sex slaves. (Buku Fixi)

DARK HIGHWAYS
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

DARK HIGHWAYS

Megat Ishak takes us on more journeys to destinations that are not for the squeamish. WARNING: This collection of 13 stories contains graphic scenes of torture, book-reading, dismemberment, coffee-drinking, cannibalism, nocturnal driving and other forms of depravity. Oh yes, there's also a villain named Mr. Ice Balls. The stories: Grotto Cloud Sparkle I Can Only See You At Night Respect Fork The Lake Ghost Girl Signature Chocolate The Mover Paradise Lost The Contract with Mr.Cadeer Paula Mr. Bolero (Buku Fixi)

WEDDING SPEECH
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

WEDDING SPEECH

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Buku Fixi

Yus and Kelly first meet as Malaysian scholarship students – he a college sophomore, she a prep student – in California, USA. Challenged by a friend, Yus pursues Kelly. His interest in her is superficial: he’s always after looks and money. Kelly by the way has a great body. Moreover, as Yus is always in debt, her more generous allowance affords him an avenue to borrow money. The two remain together until Yus loses his scholarship and is forced to part ways with Kelly. Too late for him, he discovers his feelings for her aren’t skin deep. Years later, they reconnect in Kuala Lumpur. Yus’s love for Kelly remains strong and so he attempts to ruin her marriage to win her back. (Buku Fixi)

DEVIL'S PLACE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

DEVIL'S PLACE

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-01
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  • Publisher: Buku Fixi

Terry Fernandez is a musician on the run. His friends have just been killed on the night of his bachelor party. He thinks he's next – and he suspects the Minister of Education. Ning Somprasong is a Thai hooker who normally keeps herself out of trouble. But one night, she bites off more than she can chew and ends up with a bag of ill-gotten US$18 million – and many pursuers. Terry and Ning have to team up to save their own lives. The madcap chase through the streets of Kuala Lumpur also feature: a taxi driver who’s fond of conspiracy theories; a CIA agent; a terrorist on a mission to wipe out infidels; an opportunistic journalist; a crooked cop; and a pimp called Fellatio Lim who is just about to discover what his name means. DEVIL'S PLACE is a cult Malaysian novel about terrorism, prostitution, politics and other funny stuff. (Buku Fixi)

HARD CORE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

HARD CORE

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-20
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  • Publisher: Buku Fixi

WARNING: Not for the squeamish. This new collection by Megat Ishak contains potentially disturbing material such as crowbars, demons, machetes, tentacles, multiple homicide, cosmetic surgery gone wrong, tattoos gone even more wrong... and children’s birthday parties. (Buku Fixi) (Fixi Novo)