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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780986053344 | Gardners Books, October 21, 2013, cover price $20.30 | About this edition: Dragon’s Fin Soup Eight Modern Siamese Fables in the tradition of the Marx Brothers.

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Product Description: S.P. Somtow’s novel The Stone Buddha’s Tears was inspired by a real-life incident in 1991 in which the city of Bangkok, about to host an international conference, decided to throw up a corrugated iron fence around a slum in order to conceal it from the passing delegates...read more

Hardcover:

9780986053313 | Gardners Books, October 5, 2013, cover price $33.80

Paperback:

9780986053320 | Gardners Books, October 6, 2013, cover price $33.80 | About this edition: S.

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Product Description: Somtow’s far-flung galactic civilization is a creation to rival Silverberg’s Majipoor or Herbert’s Dune. It is a universe with its own language and exotic customs, vividly etched characters and rich history that spans thousands of worlds and tens of thousands of years...read more

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9780980014921 | Gardners Books, September 20, 2013, cover price $24.35 | About this edition: Somtow’s far-flung galactic civilization is a creation to rival Silverberg’s Majipoor or Herbert’s Dune.

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Paperback:

9780980014907 | Diplodocus Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: The complete vocal score of Somtow Sucharitkul's opera "Ayodhya", written for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Reign of the King of Thailand. This grand opera retells the entire story of Thailand's national epic, the Ramayana, in modern terms...read more

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9780977134694 | Orpheus Music Bangkok, September 30, 2006, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The complete vocal score of Somtow Sucharitkul's opera "Ayodhya", written for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Reign of the King of Thailand.

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Product Description: 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...read more

Hardcover:

9780898653670 | Walsworth Pub Co, September 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Timmy Valentine, teen rock star and secret vampire, tries to come to terms with the feelings of guilt and compassion he has for his victims
9780898653687 | Limited edition (Walsworth Pub Co, September 1, 1984), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Timmy Valentine, teen rock star and secret vampire, tries to come to terms with the feelings of guilt and compassion he has for his victims

Paperback:

9780977134632 | Diplodocus Pr, October 31, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of twentieth-century gothic literarture, S.
9780812525960 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, September 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Timmy Valentine, teen rock star and secret vampire, tries to come to terms with the feelings of guilt and compassion he has for his victims

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Product Description: A complete vocal score of Somtow Sucharitkul's 2003 horror opera, "Mae Naak", edited and with a piano reduction by Trisdee na Patalung. The Nation called this opera "a truly great work" with its exotic colors and ironic cross-breeding of Thai folk music with the tropes of horror film music...read more

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9780977134663 | Diplodocus Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: A complete vocal score of Somtow Sucharitkul's 2003 horror opera, "Mae Naak", edited and with a piano reduction by Trisdee na Patalung.

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Product Description: 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 ...read more

Hardcover:

9780312937300 | Tor Books, August 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Astyanax, heir to the throne of Troy, is determined to revenge his nation's defeat at the hands of the Akhaians, even if it means starting a second Trojan war

Paperback:

9780977134670 | Diplodocus Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: S.
9780977134670 | Diplodocus Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: S.

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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 serial killer, the stories explore the idea of alternate paradises and provide astonishing, sometimes shocking, perspectives about humanity's yearning for a better place.

Hardcover:

9780977134687 | Diplodocus Pr, August 28, 2005, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780977134601 | Diplodocus Pr, August 28, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: "...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 Koontz In 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 herself in Bangkok's brave new world of shamans, shopping malls, and high society serial killers...read more

Hardcover:

9780595659128 | Iuniverse Inc, July 31, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: ".

Paperback:

9780595288618 | Iuniverse Inc, July 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: .

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Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted with a difficult decision when they encounter the people of the planet Thanet, a civilization that believes that their civilization is destined to be destroyed every five thousand years, after Picard discovers that the Death-Bringer is only a rogue comet that the Enterprise can easily eliminate. Original.

Paperback:

9780743411301 | Star Trek, July 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted with a difficult decision when they encounter the people of the planet Thanet, a civilization that believes that their civilization is destined to be destroyed every five thousand years, after Picard discovers that the Death-Bringer is only a rogue comet that the Enterprise can easily eliminate.

Miscellaneous:

9780743465007 | Star Trek, June 6, 2003, cover price $8.99

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781587152467 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: On this alternate Earth, Rome rules all .

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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!

Paperback:

9781587153372 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.95
9780345347916 | Ballantine Books, November 1, 1988, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Equus Insanus, son of Aquila, has been missing for three years on his quest to bring the vile Time Criminal to justice.

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Paperback:

9781587153198 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Billy and Charley lives in vastly different worlds. When Billy's world begins to threaten his very life, he discovers Charley to be a true friend and his last hope for survival.

Paperback:

9781930235076 | Babbage Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Billy and Charley lives in vastly different worlds.

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When a girl turns up dead in Bangkok, a likely victim of Thailand's notorious sex industry, a half-American/half Thai journalist is also murdered while investigating the crime, but he returns from the dead to exact revenge on his killers. Reprint.

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9780061059933 | Reprint edition (Harper Entertainment, November 1, 2000), cover price $6.99 | also contains Van Gogh in Arles | About this edition: When a girl turns up dead in Bangkok, a likely victim of Thailand's notorious sex industry, a half-American/half Thai journalist is also murdered while investigating the crime, but he returns from the dead to exact revenge on his killers.
9780061073489 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1999, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: When a half-American/half-Thai journalist is killed while on assignment in turn-of-the-century Bangkok, investigating a murdered victim of Thailand's notorious sex industry, he returns to exact revenge on his killers

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Product Description: In this collection, S.P. Somtow writes of his native Thailand caught between tradition and change, the ancient and the modern. It is a land where the fantastic is accepted as part of everyday life - and a chance meeting with a dragon, ghosts, aliens, or time travellers can happen to anyone...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781930235038, titled "Dragon's Fin Soup: Eight Modern Siamese Fables" | Babbage Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In this collection, S.
9781893475007, titled "Dragon's Fin Soup: Eight Modern Siamese Fables" | Babbage Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Here collected together for the first time are all the short stories, ads, and illustrations for S. P. Somtow's Mallworld. Included in The Ultimate Mallworld are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for the Mallworld products (left out in the TOR mass market re-printing), and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed (the artwork was not included in the TOR edition)...read more

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9781892065070 | Meisha Merlin Pub, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Here collected together for the first time are all the short stories, ads, and illustrations for S.

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Product Description: 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.

Paperback:

9781587151453 | Wildside Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: J.

Prebinding:

9780613797498 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: J.

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Product Description: S.P. Somtow's L.A. Fairy Tales, collected together for the first time in this new edition. Somtow puts a new spin on some classic themes in this volume of 10 short stories set in the back alleys of downtown L.A. A must-have for the modern horror reader and collector...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781892389060 | Nightshade Book, April 15, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: S.

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A mysterious, one-eyed shaman ventures to raise dead soldiers from the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, in a novel that features appearances by Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau

Hardcover:

9780312859312 | Tor Books, February 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A mysterious, one-eyed shaman ventures to raise dead soldiers from the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, in a novel that features appearances by Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau

Paperback:

9780312872410 | Tor Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A mysterious, one-eyed shaman ventures to raise dead soldiers from the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, in a novel that features appearances by Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau

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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.
By Gary A. Lippincott (illustrator) and S. P. Somtow

School and Library:

9780689319686 | Atheneum, November 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: When Johnnie moves to California with his Jewish mother and his Lakota grandfather, he makes friends with Rebecca Teppish, another new student, who is half vampire and must decide before her next birthday whether or not to become one of the undead.

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Timmy Valentine, a former vampire turned mortal neo-gothic rock star, must confront his grisly past of death, sex, art, and horror in an attempt to resuscitate his fading career. Reprint. LJ. PW.

Hardcover:

9780312855130 | Tor Books, December 1, 1995, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Continues the story of the immortal young singer and vampire, Timmy Valentine, as he searches through Hollywood and country backwaters for his soul

Paperback:

9780812524789 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, August 1, 1997), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Continues the story of the immortal young singer and vampire, Timmy Valentine, as he searches through Hollywood and country backwaters for his soul

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Product Description: Follow the exploits of the Etchison family as their mortal world is rehaped by warring dragon-children under the control of the Darkling King Strang. Within Theo Etchison lies the power of a Turthsayer, a power the Darklings need to dominate the universe...read more

Paperback:

9781565049437 | White Wolf Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Follow the exploits of the Etchison family as their mortal world is rehaped by warring dragon-children under the control of the Darkling King Strang.

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The sequel to Vampire Junction finds Brian, PJ, and Terry ten years after the disappearance of vampire rock star Timmy Valentine, remembering the terrible night in Junction and fighting the Gods of Chaos who believe Timmy is still alive. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780312851453 | Tor Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The horrifying adventures of Timmy Valentine, an innocent looking child-vampire, exploiting his raw power in the mortal world

Paperback:

9780812512403 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The horrifying adventures of Timmy Valentine, an innocent looking child-vampire, exploiting his raw power in the mortal world

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