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 alike, Dinosaur Symphony is fun for the whole family.Did dinosaurs coexist with symphony orchestras?T...

S.P. Somtow's first novel, Starship & Haiku, was awarded the Locus Award and caused a sensation in 1981 with its extraordinary Asian-skewed view of the post nuclear apocalypse. In this novel, only Japan has survived a world-wide holocaust, and Japan's culture has turned inward, exalting its past and its aesthetic of suicide. In this grim world, a young girl makes contact with a renegade member of an alien race ... the whales. Together, they plan a new future for the world's intelligent lif...

Did dinosaurs coexist with symphony orchestras?This colorful book for children of all ages answers this question with witty poetry and entertaining illustrations.A perfect gift for your favorite precocious child!

35 years after the first Mallworld story was produced, S.P. Somtow has produced the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld collection. Included 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) and Kofoed's cover art (left out of the Meisha Merlin edition!) With a new intro...

Eight Stories - Ten Award NominationsHere 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 redemption.A curiously sympathetic An...

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 polyglot, multiethnic world. It's a world where women still practice their ancient mysteries alongside the rigid...

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 Madame Ciporilli, the dinosaur and his friends learn start learning the positions, movements, and gestures ... ...

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 first of a trilogy within a trilogy.The songs of Sajit were known and loved through the million worlds of th...

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" … and the odd science fiction writer dropping in for a chat.…"It's a story about the human need to want...

Wovon träumen Kometen?Alle fünftausend Jahre, so glauben die Bewohner des Planeten Thanet, wird alles Leben auf ihrer Welt von dem "Todesbringer" ausgelöscht, und ein neuer Zyklus der Schöpfung beginnt. Die letzten Tage stehen erneut bevor, die Thanetianer bereiten sich auf den Untergang vor. Der "Todesbringer" ist ein Komet, der leicht zerstört werden könnte - doch das würde die spirituelle und kulturelle Basis der Bevölkerung zerstören. Captain Jean-Luc Picard en...

Les vies de deux garçons originaires des classes sociales les plus opposées se croisent à cause d’un mur. Le protagoniste, un mendiant, connu sous le seul nom de « Boy », rencontre un moine novice que son père, politicien corrompu, a envoyé dans un monastère pour obtenir une belle série de photos en vue de sa campagne électorale.À eux deux, les garçons réunissent gosses des rues, chauffeurs de taxi et cornacs pour réaliser un projet fou : mettre fin à l’alliance sombre nouée par le ...