Red Dot Irreal

Last updated: 2012-01-21

Math Paper Press, October 2011, 164 pp.

Paperback, $23.80 SGD, $14.95 USD
ISBN 978-981-07-0134-5

Hardcover, $21.95 USD
ISBN 978-981-07-1063-7

Cover design by You & Me Creative
Offset-printed in Singapore by DominiePress
POD-printed in the USA by Lulu.com

Smashwords, November 2011
E-Book, DRM-free, Multi-format, $3.99 USD
ISBN: 978-1-4660-6880-3


Tour Schedule

Singapore Writers Festival
Festival Green, SMU
29 Oct 2011

BooksActually
Tiong Bahru
10 Dec 2011

Books Kinokuniya
Orchard Road
Jan 2012

Readings@Seskan
Kuala Lumpur
25 Feb


Signed Copies

For those of you wanting a touch of the personal, feel free to order a signed copy of the offset-printed paperback via PayPal below. I am happy to write an inscription, fondle the spirograph illustrations, or rub the book all over my body, but please indicate what you'd like me to do in the special instructions. Allow 2-3 weeks for delivery.

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Red Dot Irreal

"... Lundberg explores the randomness of magical occurrences and how a life without magic can be just as deadening as it is safe."
The Green Man Review


Travel to Southeast Asia on wings of the fantastic for Jason Erik Lundberg's debut short-story collection Red Dot Irreal.

There you'll meet pirates and shamans, wise fish and mystical storytellers, living monuments and paper animals, time travelers and civet cats, stone taxi drivers, floating dental patients, and a sentient bird park. Once you enter the surreal worlds of Lundberg's equatorial fantastika, a part of you will never leave.

instagram photo by jelundberg  instagram photo by jelundberg

Photo by Jasmine Tan


Contents

01. Bogeymen
02. Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish) (original flash)†*
03. Hero Worship, or How I Met the Dream King
04. Lion City Daikaiju
05. Dragging the Frame (original flash)†*
06. Kopi Luwak
07. Paper Cow
08. Taxi Ride
09. Coast
10. In Jurong

† Included in the collective story "The Red Dot Pentaptych"
* Expanded from the original


Advance Praise

"Stories exotic, spicy, and redolent as a four-star curry. A fine meal for the mind awaits you in Lundberg's collection."

—Jonathan Carroll, author of Outside the Dog Museum

"Lundberg's writing is that of an Old Soul who views the world through Young Eyes; his work is jamais vu of the highest order: these stories are memories encountered for the first time, but never to be forgotten once they've been experienced."

—James A. Owen, author and illustrator of Here, There Be Dragons

"Red Dot Irreal is a box made of the finest equatorial wood, containing a collection of genuine gems of the early 21st century noble art of fantastika."

—Zoran Zivkovic, author of The Last Book

"Red Dot Irreal teems with imagination, location, originality, and fine writing."

—Jeffrey Ford, author of The Empire of Ice Cream


Reviews

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Dead Tree Edition



Within Singapore

Purchase the paperback at BooksActually, Kinokuniya, or Grapheme Zine Lab.

Within Europe

Europeans can soon purchase the paperback from Studio Circle Six.




Gimme Now Edition



The Print-on-Demand paperback edition can now be ordered from Lulu.com. The hardcover edition will be available in February 2012.




Photonic Edition

Purchase the e-book directly through Smashwords, or via the below e-reader stores.