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Moon Dance

By: S. P. Somtow

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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 clan of the Lakota Sioux who become wolves by the light of the full moon.

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0812511271

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Aquila and the Sphinx

By: S. P. Somtow

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Aquila and the Sphinx

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Equus Insanus, son of Aquila, has been missing for three years on his quest to bring the vile Time Criminal to justice. His Roman half brother, Lucius, nephew to Caesar, fears him dead - until he begins receiving strange messages from the lost Lacoti warrior. Then Lucius learns that Equus has been captured by the Time Criminal, who plans to use him as the instrument which will destroy their world. Discovering that the secret to Equus's salvation may lie in the pyramids of Giza and in the riddle of the Sphynx, Aquila and Lucius set out for Egypt. They have no idea that the answers they find will lead them across the entire Roman Empire, through space, and ultimately through time itself - for the final confrontation with the Time Criminal and the battle for a man's soul!

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1587153378

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Aquila and the Iron Horse

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Aquila and the Iron Horse

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Equus Insanus, son of the intrepid Aquila, finds the civilized life of Rome tedious. So he is eager to return to his native land of Terra Novo to assist in the construction of Caesar's latest fancy -- a transprovincial railroad. But on this alternate Earth where the Roman Empire rules America, things seldom go as planned. Soon the project is beset with savage Indian raids and inexplicable disasters...and Equus's father returns from the future with a dire warning: The evil Time Criminal is back and stronger than ever, and even Aquila of the time-trading Dimensional Patrol is powerless to act! Now only Equus Insanus stands between the Time Criminal and the destruction of the universe!

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158715319X

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Do Comets Dream

Star Trek The Next Generation

By: S P Somotow

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Do Comets Dream

Star Trek The Next Generation

By: S P Somotow

The inhabitants of Thanet believe that once every five thousand years the Death-Bringer destroys their world in a torrent of fire in order to herald a new cycle of creation -- and the eve of destruction is almost upon them. Billions will die. To Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise, the Death-Bringer appears to be nothing more than a rogue comet, and one that could easily be destroyed. But Picard's position is challenged when his Counsellor, the empath Deanna Troi, discovers that the comet is alive...

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Simon and Schuster

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1471107361

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Do Comets Dream

Star Trek The Next Generation

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Do Comets Dream

Star Trek The Next Generation

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Riverrun

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Riverrun

By: S. P. Somtow

Young Theo Etchison had always been told he had an overactive imagination. But his fantasies will be his only defense when he falls under the demonic spell of the Darkling vampire Thorn ..."--Page 4 of cover

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Avon Books

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038075925X

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9780380759255

The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter

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The Vampire's Beautiful Daughter

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When Johnny's family moves to California, he finds it hard to fit in at his new school until Rebecca, the half-human daughter of a vampire, begins to attend Johnny's school and the two of them become close friends, each facing their own personal demons.

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Diplodocus Press

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1940999200

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9781940999203

Nirvana Express

Journal of a Very Brief Monkhood

By: S. P. Somtow

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Nirvana Express

Journal of a Very Brief Monkhood

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S.P. Somtow's curious journey toward enlightenment in a few short days in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand.

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099001424X

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Aquila in the New World

By: S. P. Somtow

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Aquila in the New World

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On this alternate Earth, Rome rules all...including the New World, known in other dimensions as America but here as Terra Novo. General Titus Papinianus is governor of that untamed land, and Aquila, chief of the savage Lacoti nation, is a Roman senator. But official titles aside, their duty is to Caesar. So when Caesar sends them on a quest for the fabled land of China, thought to be somewhere in Terra Novo, off they go. They are hardly prepared for bloodthirsty Aztecs, flying machines, time-traveling aliens, or Bigfoot - and Aquila's problem-solving strategies are unconventional to say the least! Before they know it, their adventures lead them into the hands of the Time Criminal, who is bent on altering all the multiple universes to suit his own evil whims. Somehow they have to stop him...before their world is destroyed!

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1587152460

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9781587152467

Chronicles of the High Inquest: Homeworld of the Heart: The Fifth Novel in the Inquestor Series

By: S. P. Somtow

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Chronicles of the High Inquest: Homeworld of the Heart: The Fifth Novel in the Inquestor Series

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After forty years, S.P. Somtow has produced a fifth novel in the Chronicles of the High Inquest, one of the most lauded galactic empire epics of the 1980s. Critically acclaimed yet never previously in print as a complete set, the series has passionate adherents - and they have finally persuaded the author to enrich the universe with more novels. Homeworld of the Heart is the first of a trilogy within a trilogy. The songs of Sajit were known and loved through the million worlds of the Dispersal of Man. He was the favorite of Elloran, most powerful, most compassionate of the godlike Inquestors - even, it was rumored, his lover. In his old age, Ton Elloran visits a backwater planet that purports to contain the tomb of Sajit. A nostalgic visit to his childhood companion birth planet, however, reveals that everything he thought he knew about his closest friend was wrong - and that there were at least two Sajits, their stories bifurcating and melding in an ever more complex skein of memory, desire, and loss. Homeworld of the Heart begins in a small village in a backworld - where a microscopic glitch in Inquestral management has caused two contradictory games of makrúgh to be played out. People bins are raining from the sky, a city is devouring another city, and a goddess must learn to become a whore as cultures and worlds clash. The Inquestor Series is like Game of Thrones - but on a galactic scale. For twenty centuries, the godlike Inquestors have ruled the million worlds of the Dispersal of Man, keeping all its disparate civilizations in precarious balance by playing the star-destroying game of makrúgh. Theodore Sturgeon said "Somtow deals with the greatest magnitude of concept since Stapledon ... I deeply envy anyone who has not read the tale of the Inquestors, for they have before them this transcendent experience." Orson Scott Card said of this series, "he can create a world with less apparent effort than some writers devote to creating a small room ..." and in Homeworld of the Heart Somtow revisits and vastly expands the teeming landscape of the Inquestor series.

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Inquestor

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1940999502

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9781940999500

Sonnets about Serial Killers

By: S P Somtow

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Sonnets about Serial Killers

By: S P Somtow

S.P. Somtow flogs a dead horse to life in this astonishing collection of sonnets. Horror and humor, pathos and putridity, the sublime, the subliminal, and the sublimated all blend together in this tour-de-force of madcap invention. Exposing the human condition in all its gritty nastiness and unwitting comedy, this book is the first collection of S.P. Somtow's poetry since the pretentious outpourings of his adolescent years. "There's life in this art form," he says, "plenty of life. as long as you're willing to dive headlong into the maelstrom of our insane twenty-first century existence." His subject matter comes from the tabloids: serial killers, sex scandals, mass murderers, and hate crimes. Distilled into the severe discipline of the sonnet form, these tawdry subjects find a new resonance, and new relevance, and we recognize in ourselves a continuity with our own past.

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098001493X

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Sonnets about Serial Killers

The Poetry Your Teacher Wouldn't Let You Read

By: S. P. Somtow

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Sonnets about Serial Killers

The Poetry Your Teacher Wouldn't Let You Read

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THE POETRY YOUR TEACHER WOULDN'T LET YOU READ Somtow flogs a dead horse to life in this astonishing collection of sonnets. Horror and humor, pathos and putridity, the sublime, the subliminal, and the sublimated all blend together in this tour-de-force of madcap invention. Exposing the human condition in all its grittiness and unwitting comedy, this book is the first collection of S.P. Somtow's poetry since the pretentious outpourings of his adolescent years. "There's life in this art form," he says, "plenty of life, as long as you're willing to dive headlong into the maelstorm of our insane twenty-first century existence." His subject matter comes from the tabloids: serial killers, sex scandals, mass murderers, and hate crimes. Distilled into the severe discipline of the sonnet form, these tawdry subjects find a new resonance, and new relevance, and we recognize in ourselves a continuity with our own past.... "Be scared, my friends. Be very, very scared. This book will take you from the paths you've known, To sights unseen, dark corners never bared, To deeds undared, halls never braved alone. Forget the world of Spenser's airy Faerie Shakespeare's bisexual angst, or Petrarch's passion; This poet's cream's decidedly non-dairy, His skewed perspective somewhat not the fashion. To this poetic banquet do I bring Inquiring minds that have inquired too much: Of Court TV and Tabloids do I sing, Of killers, perverts, hypocrites, and such, For in life's drama, they too play their part. Inhuman horror hides a human heart.

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098605335X

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9780986053351

Vampire Junction

By: S. P. Somtow

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Vampire Junction

By: S. P. Somtow

Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of twentieth-century gothic literarture, S.P. Somtow's tale of a twelve-year-old rock star vampire, his Jungian analyst, and the Wagnerian conductor who is his nemesis turned the entire genre upside down in the 1980s and is considered the ancestor of the "splatterpunk" movement. Vampire Junction has been voted one of the top forty horror books of all time. Timmy Valentine: "He'll steal your heart - and have it for breakfast " 21st anniversary edition of this unforgettable classic of high-intensity horror.

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0977134636

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Moon Dance

By: S. P. Somtow

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Moon Dance

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The Shattered Horse

By: S. P. Somtow

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The Shattered Horse

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S.P. Somtow's classic sequel to "The Iliad" returns to print. Firmly rooted in modern archaeological discoveries about Bronze Age cultures, "The Shattered Horse" paints a vivid picture of a decaying golden age seen through the eyes of the survivors of Trojan War . at the center of the story, Prince Astyanax, heir to the Trojan kingdom, marked for death as a child by the Greek conquerors, escaping perhaps by divine intervention . doomed, perhaps, to repeat history. An astonishing panoply of mythic characters come to life in this book, called by Gene Wolfe "in the true sense, a work of genius.

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1940999057

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Starship & Haiku: The Award-Winning Post-Apocalypse Science Fiction Classic

By: S. P. Somtow

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Starship & Haiku: The Award-Winning Post-Apocalypse Science Fiction Classic

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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 new future for the world's intelligent life. Part savage satire, part poetic evocation of a manga-like universe, S.P. Somtow's novel was the inspiration for Kathy Mar's award-winning song "Starship and Haiku.

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1940999065

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Mallworld

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Mallworld

By: S. P. Somtow

Malgré leur peau bleue et leurs cheveux magenta, les Selespridar sont humanoïdes à 99,8 %. Ca ne les a pas empêchés de construire autour de notre système solaire un champ de forces qui nous retient prisonniers et nous cache les étoiles. Qu'à cela ne tienne, il nous reste Mallworld, le centre commercial le plus fou de l'univers. Un million de clients par jour ! Allez y copuler avec la sculpture en barbe à papa la plus géante de l'univers ! Achetez-y un bébé à morphologie adaptable et personnalité optionnelle ! Si vos goûts vous portent plutôt vers la religion, offrez-vous une castration rituelle entièrement réversible ou revivez la paix solennelle et austère d'une Cène dans un authentique MacDonald reconstitué. Vous ne serez pas déçus ! Satisfaits ou remboursés ! Pour la première fois publiées dans leur intégralité en France, voici les neuf nouvelles situées dans le monde délirant de Mallworld. Satisfaction garantie !

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Gallimard Education

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207031474X

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Aquila and the Sphinx

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Aquila and the Iron Horse

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Aquila in the New World

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The Aquiliad

Aquila in the New World

By: S. P. Somtow,Somtow Sucharitkul

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The Aquiliad

Aquila in the New World

By: S. P. Somtow,Somtow Sucharitkul

In another dimension where Rome never fell, General Titus and Aquila, a captured Indian, journey to the new world, where they discover flying saucers, time travelers, and Aztec gold

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Ballantine Books

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0345338677

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