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S P Somtow
The widowed Mrs. Dorrit lives a marginal existence with her brother, a vicar, and twin daughters in a cottage on the estate of her wealthy cousin, Lord Chuzzlewit, in the…
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When Bobby and his brother take their pet velociraptor to the carnival, they get embroiled in a wild adventure with kidnappers, fortune-tellers, and magic.
A nostalgic look at a past…
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World Fantasy Award winning author S.P. Somtow third "Dinosaur Classics" brings opera to life for young Billy and Rex the Raptor!
Billy's parents insist on leaving his pet velociraptor at…
A boy searches for a baby pygmy hippo
After the phenomenal success of Dinosaur Symphony, World Fantasy Award winning author S.P. Somtow has brought the surprising world of dinosaurs in classical ballet to life!
When Billy brings his…
A bored little boy in American suburbia falls in love with Thailand's baby pygmy hippo internet sensation, Moo Deng, and journey's to visit his uncle in Bangkok so he can…
S. P. Somtow
…the J.D. Salinger of Siam –George Axelrod, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany’s S. P. Somtow doesn’t write like anybody else…and when he wants to spook you, he can drive…
two misfits lost in paradise … a serial killer and a lonely boy S.P. Somtow’s World Fantasy Award winning novella is set in a picturesque Thai village just after the…
Author’s note: For the last five years I have been working on this opera, Helena Citr nov . I cannot get the subject out of my mind. The true story…
S.P. Somtow’s much anthologized story The Fallen Country, and the acclaimed young adult novel that derived from it, have been favorites since the 1980s when they first appeared. In 2015…
Selected for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 anthology, this urban contemporary fantasy novella by World Fantasy Award-winning author S.P. Somtow tells the story of Kris, a boy…
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…
Announced thirty years ago from the now-defunct Pulphouse Press, S.P. Somtow’s theme collection of stories about Fathers and Sons has been about to come out ever since. Diplodocus Press now…
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…
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…
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…
At twelve years old, Little Frog has a richly fantastic and sustaining innerlife. It is 1963, his parents have disappeared, and he lives with his maiden aunts, known affectionately as…
A powerful book about a young boy who goes on a mysterious journey to find the reason for his brother’s suicide. Set in the 1980s, before social media and ubiquitous…
the finest new series of the 90s thus far… fantasy novels don’t come any better than this! the makings of a classic! - Edward Bryant Somtow himself, with a poet’s…
In the sequel to Riverrun, young Theo Etchison is drawn into Strang’s terrifying dimension and begins a bizarre odyssey across an inverted land. the finest new series of the 90s…
S.P. Somtow has assembled a collection of essays, poems, and fiction, and tells all about his first published poem from 1967, which earned a lengthy shelf life when it was…
The finest new series of the nineties so far … some of the finest writing the genre has produced…. - Locus an object lesson in the potential of fantasy -…
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…
Caravaggio Times Two is a special edition chapbook produced for the World Premiere of Lux in Tenebris, a meditation about the life and works of the great 16th-Century painter, created…
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…
It’s a daring adventure, a breathtaking leap of ambition, an amazing gift to the world from a small country that may seem to some to be far from the world’s…
Conclusion of the Fifth Novel of Somtow’s galactic epic Chronicles of the High Inquest - and beginning of the Sixth novel in the series, Stillness in Starlight/
In a vast and cruel galactic empire, a boy chosen to be the instrument of the empire’s fall must juggle unlimited power and his two loves. From the iconic Inquestor…
Season One of World Fantasy Award-winning author S.P. Somtow's vella series is adapted and compiled into book form. St. Cecilia's boys' school is an elite boys' school in a remote…
In World Fantasy Award winning author S.P. Somtow's second book in the "Club X" series of light novels set in a Thai boarding school full of dark secrets, Kim and…
Originally published by Pocket Books 1981 and reprinted by Del Rey Books 1984.
After 33 years, S.P. Somtow is finally creating a fifth book in the Inquestor universe, the galaxy-spanning science fantasy series that Theodore Sturgeon called the greatest magnitude of spectacle and…
J.J. is upset when his brother, Ben, commits suicide, but at his aunt’s house he begins getting messages from Ben on his aunt’s computer.
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…
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…
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…
Before Harry Potter there was The Wizard’s Apprentice It’s Hollywood, with shrimp-and-avocado pizza for those bored with the plain old Thai barbecued chicken kind. Aaron has just discovered that his…
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…
A half American/half Thai journalist investigating the death of a teenager whose virginity was sold to the highest bidder is murdered but returns to wreak vengeance on the system that…
Stories within stories within stories! And always, it took another story to explain the one that preceded it. That’s the structure of Somtow’s richly textured novel of supernatural sacrifice and…
Dragon’s Fin Soup Eight Modern Siamese Fables in the tradition of the Marx Brothers Eight Rowdy Tales where East and West don’t meet-they collide Eight Frightening Ruminations where nothing is…
Here 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…
A pictorial history of the first eighteen years of Opera Siam, the maverick Thai opera company, lavishly illustrated.
