“To the SEAs and Beyond: An interview with Jaymee Goh” is a great interview with one of the editors of this Southeast Asian steampunk anthology, which is coming soon!
Excerpt:
AAP: How did “The SEA Is Ours” come about?
JG: I’d been kicking the idea around for a couple of years, because as a whole I felt unsatisfied by representations of Southeast Asia in most of speculative fiction, and felt very strongly that steampunk would be a really great way of talking about the myriad histories in the region. Joyce Chng and I were a couple of the few SEAsians actively writing steampunk at the time, but a corpus doesn’t come about with just a few people. I’m Malaysian and have very little knowledge of the stories and peoples of other SEAsian countries, and I wanted to give folks an opportunity to explore SEAsianness in fiction.
Bill Campbell of Rosarium Publishing offered to publish us, and it was off to the races.
