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Somtow Sucharitkul

    30 dicembre 1952

    Conosciuto anche come S.P. Somtow, questo autore offre prospettive non convenzionali sulla realtà nella sua opera. La sua scrittura esplora frequentemente le complessità della psiche umana e i confini etici. I lettori possono aspettarsi narrazioni stimolanti che offrono profonde intuizioni sulle intricatezze dell'esistenza umana. Il punto di vista distintivo dell'autore garantisce un'esperienza di lettura memorabile.

    Somtow Sucharitkul
    Riverrun
    Chronicles of the High Inquest - 2: The Dawning Shadow
    Jasmine Nights
    Darker Angels
    Aquila and the Iron Horse
    Light on the Sound
    • Light on the Sound

      Chronicles of the High Inquest: Homeworld of the Heart

      • 412pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Set against a backdrop of tachyon bubbles and galactic empires, the story unfolds with a lonely planet and three lost souls embarking on a journey that leads to a galactic revolution. Blending science fiction with profound family conflicts reminiscent of Greek tragedy, it explores themes of adventure and spectacle. This modern reincarnation of a classic series from the 1980s promises to deliver more excitement and depth, inviting readers into a richly imagined universe.

      Light on the Sound
      5,0
    • Aquila and the Iron Horse

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Equus Insanus, disillusioned by the monotony of Roman life, longs to return to Terra Novo. He is excited to contribute to the ambitious project of building a transprovincial railroad commissioned by Caesar. This journey explores themes of ambition, civilization versus wilderness, and the clash between progress and tradition as Equus navigates his dual identity in a rapidly changing world.

      Aquila and the Iron Horse
      5,0
    • Jasmine Nights

      • 354pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      The setting is Thailand and the protagonists are two boys, one Thai, the other African-American. The novel traces their relationship, which is a meeting of East and West. By a Thai-born writer, author of Vampire Junction.

      Jasmine Nights
      4,3
    • Chronicles of the High Inquest - 2: The Dawning Shadow

      The Throne of Madness

      • 262pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      The godlike rulers of the High Inquest had forsaken all that made them human. But one young Inquestor rediscovered the power of compassion and hastened the end of their ancient, starflung empire.

      Chronicles of the High Inquest - 2: The Dawning Shadow
      4,2
    • Riverrun

      • 257pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Slumbering deep within young Theo Etchison is the power of a Truthsayer: a power for which Thorn, the Darkling vampire, has a burning need. For the Darklings – using dreams as their weapon – battle amon themselves for domination of the universe, and victory can only come through a Truthsayer from the world of men. And Theo under Thorn’s demonic spell, finds himself in the strange and luminous underworld of the Darklings, confronting Thorn’s dragon sister, with only his overactive imagination and his fantasies to protect him.

      Riverrun
      3,0
    • The planet Gallendys is ruled by the Inquestors, unseen beings who are able to travel instantaneously to any place in the universe via tachyon bubbles.

      The Dawning Shadow
      4,0
    • Terrestrial Passions

      • 280pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Set in a quaint West London village, the story follows Mrs. Dorrit, a widowed woman living with her brother and twin daughters on her wealthy cousin's estate. Their mundane lives take a dramatic turn with the arrival of a rakish Earl and the unexpected landing of a starship in their apple orchard, complicating the daughters' marital prospects and intertwining their fates with extraordinary events.

      Terrestrial Passions
      3,4
    • Utopia Hunters

      Chronicles of the High Inquest

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      UTOPIA HUNTERS is the history of the Inquest as seen through the eyes of a young woman who becomes a central figure in its evolution. Jenjen, a young lightweaver from the world of Essondras, is summoned by the inquestor Ton Elloran to fashion a great lightsculpture commemorating the Inquest's crusade against false utopias. Caught in a great game played with billions of lives, she learns to see in her life, her art and in the great sweep of history itself, the terrible shadow that threatens the Inquest -- and the light that lies beyond that darkness.

      Utopia Hunters
      4,0
    • The Shattered Horse

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      S.P. Somtow's classic sequel to "The Iliad" returns to the print. Firmly rooted in modern archaeological discoveries about Bronze Age cultures, "The Shattered Horse" paints a vivid picture of a decaying golden age seen through the eyes of the survivors of Trojan War . at the center of the story, Prince Astyanax, heir to the Trojan kingdom, marked for death as a child by the Greek conquerors, escaping perhaps by divine intervention . doomed, perhaps, to repeat history. An astonishing panoply of mythic characters come to life in this book, called by Gene Wolfe "in the true sense, a work of genius."

      The Shattered Horse
      3,9