S. P. Somtow
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S. P. Somtow is a composer, film director, and author of over forty books His prolific output spans the genres of horror, science-fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, and children's literature. His work has won or been nominated for dozens of major awards, including the John W. Campbell Award, the visa mer Locus, the Bram Stoker, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy Award He has written and directed two feature films -- The Laughing Dead and Ill met at Moonlight -- and will soon direct Timetwist from his own script. His epic ballet, Kaki, premiered as a Royal Command performance in Bangkok and he recently conducted the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra. Somtow -- otherwise known as the Secret Godfather of the New Age -- currently lurks somewhere in the bowels of Los Angeles visa färre
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Verk av S. P. Somtow
Lottery Night [short fiction] 4 exemplar
The Pavilion of Frozen Women [novelette] 3 exemplar
An Alien Heresy {short story} 3 exemplar
Dragon's Fin Soup [short story] 3 exemplar
Chui Chai [short fiction] 3 exemplar
Darker Angels 2 exemplar
Dinosaur Ballet 2 exemplar
Gingerbread 2 exemplar
The Vampire of Mallworld 1 exemplar
Red as Jade 1 exemplar
Aquila [novelette] 1 exemplar
The Voice of the Hummingbird 1 exemplar
Hunting the Lion 1 exemplar
Kingdoms in the Sky {novelette} 1 exemplar
The Thirteenth Utopia 1 exemplar
Diamonds Aren't Forever 1 exemplar
Mallworld Becomes Elektra 1 exemplar
คืนเกิดเหตุ (The Great Tales) 1 exemplar
A Symphony of Terror 1 exemplar
Vampire in the Closet (Club X, #1) 1 exemplar
The Dark Side of Mallworld 1 exemplar
Encuentro con el mal 1 exemplar
Vanilla Blood 1 exemplar
The Laughing Dead [Blu-ray] 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 265 exemplar
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 4, No. 6 [June 1980] (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Hiroshima soll leben. Die schönsten Alternativwelt- Geschichten. (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 2 [February 1982] (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Best of the Rest 2: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 1998 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
S-Fマガジン 1983年 09月号 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Somtow, S. P.
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Sucharitkul, Somtow Papinian
สมเถา สุจริตกุล - Födelsedag
- 1952-12-30
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Thailand
- Födelseort
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Utbildning
- Eton College
University of Cambridge (St. Catherine's) - Yrken
- composer
conductor
artistic director (Bangkok Opera)
director (film)
actor
science fiction writer (visa alla 8)
fantasy writer
horror writer - Priser och utmärkelser
- John W. Campbell Award (1981)
International Horror Guild Award Nominee (Novel ∙ 1998 ∙ Darker Angels)
International Horror Guild Award (Long Fiction ∙ 1996 ∙ "Brimstone and Salt")
Bram Stoker Award Nominee (Long Fiction ∙ 1996 ∙ "Brimstone and Salt")
Bram Stoker Award Nominee (Long Fiction ∙ 1987 ∙ "Ressurec Tech")
World Fantasy Award (Novella ∙ 2002 ∙ "The Bird Catcher") (visa alla 7)
Locus Award (Best First Novel ∙ 1982 ∙ Starship & Haiku)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 88
- Även av
- 56
- Medlemmar
- 3,054
- Popularitet
- #8,361
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 33
- ISBN
- 176
- Språk
- 5
- Favoritmärkt
- 4
This book is based in Thailand, it is about a Journalist named Stephen Lelloit and his wants to make a documentary or tv show about the sex industry in Thailand but it is a little exploitative of the women that he talks to.
His grandmother Linda Dusit who is the Shaman, can astral project herself into the spiritual/astral realm while there she senses an evil presence which is Dirk Temple.
Dirk Temple who is my favourite character because he is depraved and psychotic, he goes on a killing spree so he can metamorphose into a godlike being and then rule over human beings to collect their souls.
However things don't exactly work out for him so eventually he is punished. One of his murder victims and her brother are finally set free.… (mer)