S.P. Somtow

Represented by Eleanor Wood

Thai-American author and composer S.P. Somtow was born in Thailand and educated at Eton and Cambridge.  His first career was in music, but in the late 1970s he began to publish a series of innovative science fiction stories in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, earning him the John W. Campbell for best new writer. His 1984 novel Vampire Junction, which critics called ancestral to the Splatterpunk Movement, was elected to the "40 All-Time Greatest Horror Books" by the Horror Writers Association.  Other horror novels include Moon Dance and Darker Angels; his chilling novella The Bird Catcher won the World Fantasy Award.  His semi-autobiographical novel Jasmine Nights was published in 1994. In the 21st Century Somtow returned to Thailand where he founded the Bangkok Opera. His radical Asian reinterpretation of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" merited a full page in the New York Times. His recent operatic adaptation of the Ramayana, "Ayodhya", was covered in the international press. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Bangkok.

Somtow's Web Page

AWARDS:

• John W. Campbell Award, Best New Writer

• World Fantasy Award, Best Novella, THE BIRD CATCHER

• Locus Award, Best First Novel, STARSHIP & HAIKU

• Edmond Hamilton-Leigh Brackett Memorial Award, "sense of wonder" in science fiction,
  "The Dust"

• Dædalus Award, Best Fantasy Novel, THE SHATTERED HORSE

• Rocky Award Winner, Best Young Adult Novel, THE WIZARD'S APPRENTICE

• Rocky Award Winner, Best Historical Fantasy, BRIMSTONE AND SALT
• HOMer Award, Best Horror, MOON DANCE
• International Horror Guild Award, Best Novelette, BRIMSTONE AND SALT

	THE ALIEN SWORDMASTER
Aquilliad series	AQUILA IN THE NEW WORLD (#1)
	AQUILA AND THE IRON HORSE (#2)
	AQUILA AND THE SPHINX (#3)
	RIVERRUN TRILOGY **
Riverrun trilogy	RIVERRUN
	FOREST OF THE NIGHT
	YESTERN
	STARSHIP AND HAIKU
	MALLWORLD
	THE ULTIMATE MALL WORLD
	FORGETTING PLACES
Dragonflight	THE WIZARD'S APPRENTICE
	THE VAMPIRE'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
	JASMINE NIGHTS
	SYMPHONY OF TERROR
	SNOW COUNTRY
	THE SHATTERED HORSE
	THE FALLEN COUNTRY
	PAVILION OF FROZEN WOMEN *
The Inquestor series	LIGHT ON THE SOUND
	THE THRONE OF MADNESS
	UTOPIA HUNTERS
	THE DARKLING WIND
Vampire Junction series	VAMPIRE JUNCTION
	VALENTINE
	VANITAS: Escape From Vampire Junction
	MOON DANCE
	DARKER ANGELS
	The Crow: TEMPLE OF NIGHT
	TAGGING THE MOON: Fairy Tales from LA
	Star Trek: Next Generation: DO COMETS DREAM

* denotes collection
** omnibus of RIVERRUN, FOREST OF THE NIGHT and YESTERN