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S.P. Somtow

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Called by the Bangkok Post "the Thai person known by name to most people in the world," S.P. Somtow is an author, composer, filmmaker, and international media personality whose dazzling talents and acerbic wit have entertained and enlightened fans the world over.

He was Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul in Bangkok. His grandfather's sister was a Queen of Siam, his father is a well known international lawyer and vice-president of the International Academy of Human Rights. Somtow was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and his first career was in music. In the 1970s (while he was still in college) his works were being performed on four continents and he was named representative of Thailand to the Asian Composer's League and to the International Music C ...more

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Between Shadow and Flame (Guthanderkaz, #1)

Between Shadow and Flame by C.T. Bryce

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I started this novel thinking, well, it's another retelling of one of the oldest tropes: boy who doesn't know who he really is searches for his real father and finds his true self in a distant fantasy kingdom. And it is, but C.T. Bryce has found new things to say and this book is a brilliantly reimagined take on the theme. In fact, i Read more of this blog post »

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	Vampire Junction 3.56 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 1984 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Do Comets Dream? 3.38 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mallworld by S.P. Somtow (Goodreads Author), Somtow Sucharitkul 3.71 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crow: Temple of Night by S.P. Somtow (Goodreads Author), James O'Barr (Created by) 3.52 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valentine 3.68 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Riverrun Trilogy 3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starship & Haiku 3.32 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1981 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ideas themselves were sensual things to him.”
― S.P. Somtow, Dragon's Fin Soup and Other Modern Siamese Fables

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“You are a king," she whispered from behind her veils, "but you are also a man. Men burn but women smolder; always we are the stronger, and your subjugation of us is an illusion.”
― S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse

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“The word bara has no gender,” I said. “And the world elohim might be plural. What if the real meaning was, ‘In the beginning, she created the gods?”
― S.P. Somtow, Other Edens: Novellas of the Fall

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