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  • Terrestrial Passions
    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 West London village of Little Chiswick. As the season dawns and a rakish Earl takes up residence in the once-abandoned Flanders House nearby, their lives, and the marital prospects of Emma’s daughters, become ...
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    15,51 €

  • Dinosaur Ballet
    S.P. Somtow
    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 pet velociraptor to his sister’s ballet class, he thinks all that prancing about is just plain silly. 'Even my pet dinosaur could do better!' Soon, under the tutelage of the strict Madam...
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    28,82 €

  • Dinosaur Ballet
    S.P. Somtow
    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 pet velociraptor to his sister’s ballet class, he thinks all that prancing about is just plain silly. 'Even my pet dinosaur could do better!' Soon, under the tutelage of the strict Madam...
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    20,59 €

  • Delicatus
    S.P. Somtow
    The decadence of Imperial Rome comes to life in S.P. Somtow’s Literary Titan Award-winning novel about one of ancient history’s wildest characters.The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from 'puer delicatus' to Empress to ...
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    29,95 €

  • Imperatrix
    S.P. Somtow
    Captured by pirates and sold to a Roman aristocrat as a sex slave, Sporus attracted the attention of no less a personage than the Emperor Nero, ruler of the known world. Would-be poet, patron of the arts, aesthete, and brutal autocrat, the Divine Nero saw in the boy a startling resemblance to the Empress Poppaea - and made him an empress as well. Suetonius, Tacitus, and other R...
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    29,84 €

  • Dinosaur Symphony
    S.P. Somtow
    World Fantasy Award winning author S. P. Somtow has written a book for 'children' of all ages - a book about the symphony orchestra, reimagined as a band of dinosaurs. Pithy, outrageous poetry and humorous illustrations come together in a book originally created to go along with a musical fantasy to be performed by a symphony orchestra. For precocious kids and nostalgic adults ...
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    21,90 €

  • Beyond Mallworld
    S.P. Somtow
    The shopping center as big as a planet is back - this time with over 80 pages of new material including the first new Mallworld story in thirty years - the jaw-dropping Mallworld Becomes Elektra which takes the premise of the entire satirical universe and turns it on its ear.A pungent satire of the rampant commercialism of the 1980s, S.P, Somtow’s Mallworld stories first appear...
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    22,88 €

  • Beyond Mallworld
    S.P. Somtow
    The shopping center as big as a planet is back - this time with over 80 pages of new material including the first new Mallworld story in thirty years - the jaw-dropping Mallworld Becomes Elektra which takes the premise of the entire satirical universe and turns it on its ear.A pungent satire of the rampant commercialism of the 1980s, S.P,  Somtow’s Mallworld stories first appea...
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    45,27 €

  • Miram
    S.P. Somtow
    '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 polyg...
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    9,93 €

  • Light on the Sound
    S.P. Somtow
    The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras.  Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and profound family conflicts — Greek tragedy writ large.  Light on the Sound, the book that started it all, begins with one lonely planet and thre...
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    44,27 €

  • Light on the Sound
    S.P. Somtow
    The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s - and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras.  Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires - and profound family conflicts - Greek tragedy writ large.  Light on the Sound, the book that started it all, begins with one lonely planet and thre...
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    22,96 €

  • Alien Heresies
    S.P. Somtow
    a retrospective collection of S.P, Somtow’s science fiction stories, from Sunsteps which first appeared in Unearth magazine in 1977 to Alien Heresies from 2007, this book covers thirty years of the wide-ranging author-composer’s career.  From comedic zombie protest marches to alien roller coaster cults, from ambiguous utopias to enjoyable dystopias, from a mediaeval inquisitor ...
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    26,58 €

  • Alien Heresies
    S.P. Somtow
    a retrospective collection of S.P, Somtow’s science fiction stories, from Sunsteps which first appeared in Unearth magazine in 1977 to Alien Heresies from 2007, this book covers thirty years of the wide-ranging author-composer’s career.  From comedic zombie protest marches to alien roller coaster cults, from ambiguous  utopias to enjoyable dystopias, from a mediaeval inquisitor...
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    46,35 €

  • Homeworld of the Heart
    S.P. Somtow / S.PSomtow
    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...
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    24,28 €

  • DasJati
    S.P. Somtow
    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 operatic center.It’s a new way to bring to news audiences the most iconic stories of Theravada Buddhism, told and retold for thousands of years, in the language of music, singing, drama, and dance, a language that belongs...
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    26,33 €

  • Utopia Hunters
    S.P. Somtow
    “His multicultural viewpoint may yet give us the best SF novel of all time” — AnalogFor twenty thousand years, the godlike Inquestors have held sway over the one million worlds of the Dispersal of Man.  S.P. Somtow’s limitless imagination has created a universe of breathtaking majesty, amazing beauty, and shattering cruelty.  In games of makrugh played in elegant floating palac...
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    40,45 €

  • Sounding Brass
    S.P. Somtow
    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” … ...
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    25,03 €

  • Nirvana Express
    S. P. Somtow
    Novelist, composer and conductor Somtow Sucharitkul (who writes books under the name S.P. Somtow) had an extraordinary epiphany while driving downthe California coast. At almost 50 years of age, having spent very little time in his native Thailand, he was seized by an overwhelming desire to enter a Buddhist monastery. This is the story of that journey, full of surprises, cultur...
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    35,68 €

  • Temple of Night
    S P Somtow / S P. Somtow
    The Eternal OneAt our human limits, when we’ve gone as for as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.The Crow.His alabaster delicate features tell of his ivory goddess ancestry. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way-and beyond.Temple of NightTurn-of-the-century Bangkok...
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    15,65 €

  • Bible Stories for Secular Humanists
    S. P. Somtow
    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 it to the pitiless scrutiny of historian, mythographer, and fantasist. Violent, sometimes kinky, these stories nevertheless reach surprising epiphanies about faith and...
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    28,81 €

  • Dragon’s Fin Soup
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    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 as it seems, and even the unreal is an illusion Eight Delectable Servings That could only have sprung from the fevered mind of . . . S. P. Somtow The most unique writer of this, or ...
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    15,84 €

  • The Shattered Horse
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    S.P. Somtow’s classic sequel to 'The Iliad' returns to the 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 Gr...
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    19,22 €

  • Other Edens
    S. P. Somtow
    Featuring the World Fantasy Award Winning story 'The Bird Catcher,' OTHER EDENS is a collection of five genre-defying novellas by Thai author-composer S.P. Somtow, author of the acclaimed 'Jasmine Nights' and 'Dragon's Fin Soup.' From 1st Century Palestine to the baroque perplexities of the American South and postwar Siam, with characters from the Virgin Mary to a Chinese seria...
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    28,45 €

  • Bluebeard’s Castle
    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 the chill bone deep.'--Dean KoontzIn an exotic re-telling of the fairytale of Bluebeard, a New Age thirty-something is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai millionaire and soon finds h...
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    31,95 €

  • Bluebeard’s Castle
    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 the chill bone deep.'--Dean KoontzIn an exotic re-telling of the fairytale of Bluebeard, a New Age thirty-something is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai millionaire and soon finds h...
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    20,71 €

  • Aquila and the Iron Horse
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    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 in...
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    18,54 €

  • Aquila and the Sphinx
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    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 d...
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    18,63 €

  • Aquila in the New World
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    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 ...
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    18,62 €

  • Forgetting Places
    S. P. Somtow
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    18,74 €