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  • The Silent Prince
    S.P. Somtow
    Prince Temiya was a fortunate, bright, and beautiful child. But he was also a Bodhisattva, an incarnation of the one who one day would be born as the Buddha, the Enlightened One. One day, the King, his father, offered him a taste of kingship - to sit in judgment on an evil criminal, and to condemn him to death. Unable to disobey his father, and unable to kill, the Bodhisattva r...
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    19,05 €

  • Dinosaurs of the Renaissance
    S.P. Somtow
    Sebastian’s on a school trip to Rome and is baffled by the endless corridors of art in the Vatican museum. Luckily, his eccentric uncle has been travelling to the Renaissance in his time machine and can take Sebastian on a magical journey to explore these masterpieces ... only the machine’s need seems to be stuck on 'Jurassic'.... ...
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    23,51 €

  • Damnatio Memoriae
    S.P. Somtow
    The conclusion of the three-book series that began with Delicatus and continued with Imperatrix.Captured by pirates as a boy and trafficked to the slave markets of Rome, Sporus rose from a poet’s plaything to one of the most powerful figures in the Roman Empire.The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of...
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    12,55 €

  • Other Avatars
    S.P. Somtow
    The collected fantasy stories of World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow - a half century of his acclaimed work brought together in a single volume. From rural America to exotic Bangkok, from ancient history to contemporary times - and sometimes both within the same story - Somtow’s world betray a limitless imagination and the finely honed writing that has brought him numerous a...
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    24,60 €

  • Dinosaur Carnival
    S.P. Somtow
    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 when kids were kids, villains were villains, and dinosaurs were household pets.A companion piece to the author’s popular Dinosaur Symphony, Dinosaur Ballet, and Dinosaur Opera! ...
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    22,14 €

  • I’m Dreaming of Moo Deng
    S.P. Somtow
    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 visit her in person. On the way to the zoo, he encounters factoids and flights of fantasy and learns a life lesson in unleashing the imagination.By the World Fantasy Award-winning author S.P. Somtow (writer of...
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    13,56 €

  • Dinosaur Opera
    S.P. Somtow
    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 the Dino-Pound while they drag him off to a week at the Opera Festival! But Billy’s fantasy world soon populates the stage with all kinds of dinosaurs. What’s 'Aida' about?Now in a pyramid ento...
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    13,83 €

  • 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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    20,59 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    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 €

  • 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 €

  • Siam Sinfonietta
    S.P. Somtow
    A pictorial booklet about the history and activities of Siam Sinfonietta, one of the world’s most interesting youth orchestras, created by Somtow Sucharitkul. ...
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    7,69 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Bluebeard’s Castle
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    '...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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    14,08 €

  • 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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    18,51 €

  • 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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    18,60 €

  • 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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    18,58 €

  • Forgetting Places
    S. P. Somtow / SPSomtow
    Forgetting Places is a novel by S.P. Somtow, first published in 1987. The story follows J.J., a young boy grappling with the recent suicide of his brother, Ben. Seeking solace, J.J. stays at his aunt’s house, where he embarks on a mysterious journey to uncover the reasons behind Ben’s death. Set in the 1980s, the narrative delves into themes of grief, self-discovery, and the co...
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    17,57 €