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S.P. Somtow
Thai-American author and composer S.P. Somtow was born in Thailand and educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music, but in the late 1970s he began to publish a series of innovative science fiction stories in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, earning him the John W. Campbell for best new writer. His 1984 novel Vampire Junction, which critics called ancestral to the Splatterpunk Movement, was elected to the "40 All-Time Greatest Horror Books" by the Horror Writers Association. Other horror novels include Moon Dance and Darker Angels; his chilling novella The Bird Catcher won the World Fantasy Award. His semi-autobiographical novel Jasmine Nights was published in 1994. In the 21st Century Somtow returned to Thailand where he founded the Bangkok Opera. His radical Asian reinterpretation of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" merited a full page in the New York Times. His recent operatic adaptation of the Ramayana, "Ayodhya", was covered in the international press. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Bangkok.
Titles
GENERAL FICTION
Forgetting Places
The Other City of Angels (Bluebeard’s Castle)
The Stone Buddha’s Tears
DARK FANTASY
The Timmy Valentine Series:
Vampire Junction Special Edition
The Vampire’s Beautiful Daughter
SCIENCE FICTION
Starship & Haiku
The Ultimate Mallworld
The Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld
Chronicles of the High Inquest:
Chroniques de l’Inquisition - Volume 1 (omnibus)
Chroniques de l’Inquisition - Volume 2 (omnibus)
The Aquiliad Series:
Aquila in the New World
Aquila and the Iron Horse
Aquila and the Sphinx
FANTASY
The Riverrun Trilogy:
The Riverrun Trilogy (omnibus)
The Fallen Country
Wizard’s Apprentice
The Snow Dragon (omnibus)
MEDIA TIE-IN
The Alien Swordmaster
Symphony of Terror
The Crow - Temple of Night
CHAPBOOKS
Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes
I Wake from a Dream of a Drowned Star City
A Lap Dance with the Lobster Lady
Compassion — Two Perspectives
LIBRETTI
Mae Naak
Ayodhya
Madana
The Silent Prince
Dan no Ura
Helena Citronova
The Snow Dragon
Sama - The Faithful Son
COLLECTIONS
Fire from the Wine Dark Sea
Chui Chai (Thai)
Nova (Thai)
The Pavilion of Frozen Women
Dragon’s Fin Soup
Tagging the Moon
Face of Death (Thai)
Other Edens
S.P. Somtow’s The Great Tales (Thai)
Terror Nova (in press)
Terror Antiqua (in press)
ESSAYS, POETRY AND MISCELLANIES
A Certain Slant of “I”
Sonnets about Serial Killers
Opera East
Victory in Vienna (ed.)
Three Continents (ed.)
Awards
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John W. Campbell Award, Best New Writer
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World Fantasy Award, Best Novella, THE BIRD CATCHER
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Locus Award, Best First Novel, STARSHIP & HAIKU
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Edmond Hamilton-Leigh Brackett Memorial Award, "sense of wonder" in science fiction, "The Dust"
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Dædalus Award, Best Fantasy Novel, THE SHATTERED HORSE
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Rocky Award Winner, Best Young Adult Novel, THE WIZARD'S APPRENTICE
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Rocky Award Winner, Best Historical Fantasy, BRIMSTONE AND SALT
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HOMer Award, Best Horror, MOON DANCE
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International Horror Guild Award, Best Novelette, BRIMSTONE AND SALT
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