Chuckberry J. Pascual is a novelist, short story writer, and translator. He is the author of the novels Mars, May Zombie! (Adarna House, 2022), Mars, Maraming Zombie! (Adarna House, 2025), and Ang Nawawalang Barangay (Avenida Books, 2024) and the short story collections Kumpisal: mga kuwento (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), Hindi Ito Romansa (Sentro ng Wikang Filipino-UP Diliman, 2020), Bayan ng mga Bangkay (University of the Philippines Press, 2022), and Ang Nawawala (Visprint, 2017) which has been translated into English as The Vanished (Avenida Books, 2023). He has also authored books on ethnography, literary criticism and literary history such as Pagpasok sa Eksena: Ang Sinehan sa Panitikan at Pag-aaral ng Piling Sinehan sa Recto (University of the Philippines Press, 2016) and Ang Tagalabas sa Panitikan (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2018).
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A CREATIVE WRITING professor is set to explore more politically pronounced themes in his sequel to his award-winning young adult novel Mars, May Zombie! to amplify class division in a post-pandemic society.
Picking up a year after Mars and his group arrive in the blue zone and illustrating how their invasion of the area fails, Assoc. Prof. Chuckberry Pascual’s Mars, Maraming Zombie! tackles a revolution and divisive politics in a setting that he said mirrors present-day Philippines.
In Ang Nawawalang Barangay, we follow the investigator from Talong Punay Bree as she tries to solve the case of mysterious disappearances in a local barangay. The protagonist then ends up uncovering these disappearances’ connection to a local religious group named Swalla. It’s a crime and mystery novel that meditates on concepts of faith, identity, and uneven power dynamics within contemporary Filipino life.
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