S. P. Somtow
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S.P. Somtow's first novel, Starship & Haiku, was awarded the Locus Award and caused a sensation in 1981 with its extraordinary Asian-skewed view of the post nuclear apocalypse. In this novel, only Japan has survived a world-wide holocaust, and Japan's culture has turned inward, exalting its past and its aesthetic of suicide. In this grim world, a young girl makes contact with a renegade member of an alien race ... the whales. Together, they plan a...
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35 years after the first Mallworld story was produced, S.P. Somtow has produced the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld collection. Included are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for the Mallworld products (left out in the TOR mass market re-printing), and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed (the artwork was not included in the TOR edition) and Kofoed's cover art (left out of the...
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Eight Stories - Ten Award NominationsHere are eight of World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow's most controversial stories, including three previously uncollected ones. Each deals with a "sacred cow" of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and subjects it to the pitiless scrutiny of historian, mythographer, and fantasist. Violent, sometimes kinky, these stories nevertheless reach surprising epiphanies about faith and redemption.A curiously sympathetic Antichrist...
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An extraordinary tale of a collaboration between a composing prodigy and a Washington politician, the story of how a Thai schoolboy came to create the entire oevre of an American composer is fabulous in the true sense of the world... a modern mythic journey.
A true story... yet one that beggars belief... with cameo appearances by all sorts of members of the Washington "swamp"... and the odd science fiction writer dropping in for a chat...."It's a...
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S.P. Somtow doesn't write like anyone else" - Dean R. KoontzVirgin. Mother. Goddess. Miriam of Nazareth was all three. S.P. Somtow's deconstructive retelling of the life of the most famous woman in history is set in a richly pagan world, where hellenism coexisted with monotheism, where Roman-occupied Judaea was not all sand and zealots but a richly-layered territory of a polyglot, multiethnic world. It's a world where women still practice their ancient...
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Diaplodocus Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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93 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Embryos go missing from a museum of the dead. A serial killer reveals his deepest secrets moments before his lethal injection. A shapeshifter realizes she isn't insane after all ... Three uncollected horror tales by S.P. Somtow from the last decade showcase the talents of this World Fantasy Award winning novelist."--Amazon.com.
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Diplodocus Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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358 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"In one volume at last - all of world fantasy award winning author S.P. Somtow's vampire stories - from the sci-fi Vampire of Mallworld to the courtroom drama of Vanilla Blood, to stories about Timmy Valentine, some of which were not incorporated into the three volumes of the Timmy Valentine Trilogy. Includes the International Horror Guild Award winning story Brimstone and Salt, which describes what really might have happened in Gomorrah, the Los...
9) Moondance
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Diplodocus Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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710 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Set against a brilliant panorama of European expansion into the West in the late 1800s, Moon Dance is the horrifying tale of the illegitimate son of the Count von Bachl-Wolfling, leader of a pack of Viennese werewolves, and of the boy's all-too-human governess, Speranza. The pack has decided to emigrate to America, in search of wild lands and unsuspicious human prey. But unbeknownst to them, the Dakota territory is already home to the Shungmanitu--a...