S. P. Somtow
Forfatter af Vampire Junction
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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 vis mere 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 vis mindre
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Værker af S. P. Somtow
Lottery Night [short fiction] 4 eksemplarer
The Pavilion of Frozen Women [novelette] 3 eksemplarer
An Alien Heresy {short story} 3 eksemplarer
Dragon's Fin Soup [short story] 3 eksemplarer
Chui Chai [short fiction] 3 eksemplarer
Darker Angels 2 eksemplarer
Dinosaur Ballet 2 eksemplarer
Gingerbread 2 eksemplarer
The Vampire of Mallworld 1 eksemplar
Red as Jade 1 eksemplar
Aquila [novelette] 1 eksemplar
The Voice of the Hummingbird 1 eksemplar
Hunting the Lion 1 eksemplar
Kingdoms in the Sky {novelette} 1 eksemplar
The Thirteenth Utopia 1 eksemplar
Diamonds Aren't Forever 1 eksemplar
Mallworld Becomes Elektra 1 eksemplar
คืนเกิดเหตุ (The Great Tales) 1 eksemplar
A Symphony of Terror 1 eksemplar
Vampire in the Closet (Club X, #1) 1 eksemplar
The Dark Side of Mallworld 1 eksemplar
Encuentro con el mal 1 eksemplar
Vanilla Blood 1 eksemplar
The Laughing Dead [Blu-ray] 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Bidragyder — 266 eksemplarer
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Bidragyder — 64 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 4, No. 6 [June 1980] (1980) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Hiroshima soll leben. Die schönsten Alternativwelt- Geschichten. (1993) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 2 [February 1982] (1982) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Best of the Rest 2: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 1998 (1999) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
S-Fマガジン 1983年 09月号 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Somtow, S. P.
- Juridisk navn
- Sucharitkul, Somtow Papinian
สมเถา สุจริตกุล - Fødselsdato
- 1952-12-30
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Thailand
- Fødested
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Uddannelse
- Eton College
University of Cambridge (St. Catherine's) - Erhverv
- composer
conductor
artistic director (Bangkok Opera)
director (film)
actor
science fiction writer (vis alle 8)
fantasy writer
horror writer - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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") (vis alle 7)
Locus Award (Best First Novel ∙ 1982 ∙ Starship & Haiku)
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- 88
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- 56
- Medlemmer
- 3,064
- Popularitet
- #8,329
- Vurdering
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- Anmeldelser
- 33
- ISBN
- 176
- Sprog
- 5
- Udvalgt
- 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.… (mere)