Title: Light on the Sound
Title Record # 3070
Author: S. P. Somtow
Date: 1982-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Inquestor / Chronicles of the High Inquest
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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Author: S. P. Somtow
Date: 1982-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Inquestor / Chronicles of the High Inquest
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Synopsis: From the back cover of the Timescape first edition: One man pitted himself against the greatest power in the galaxy, searching for something he was forbidden to find... Ton Davaryush had destroyed twelve utopias in the line of his duty as a Kingling of the galaxy's all-powerful Inquest: he was delivering ignorant humanity from the throes of delusion. For it was written in the Inquestral Texts that man was a fallen being and all utopias inherently false.
But now, simmering with rebellion, Davaryush plotted the Inquest's destruction and cursed the awesome extent of its power. Now he stood ready to wreck havoc within the galactic tyranny.
Now he was willing to risk the Inquest's ultimate wrath. Because he had seen a thirteenth utopia, he had known the sin of joy... and he knew he would, he must, preserve it - at any price!
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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24 | 1983 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Light on the Sound | 1982-09-00 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Timescape / Pocket Books | 0-671-44028-4 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
255 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Don Maitz | |
Lumière sur le détroit | 1984-04-00 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Denoël?Denoel (Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur #379) |
2-207-30379-9 | 313 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Georges Raimondo | ||
The Dawning Shadow: Light on the Sound | 1986-09-00 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-25359-X | $3.50?$: US dollar |
275 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Gary Ciccarelli | |
Light on the Sound | 2013-10-12 | S. P. Somtow | Diplodocus Press | 978-0-9800149-9-0 | $20.00?$: US dollar |
284 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Light on the Sound | 2020-05-01 | S. P. Somtow | Diplodocus Press | 978-1-940999-53-1 | $36.00?$: US dollar |
400 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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Light on the Sound | 2020-05-01 | S. P. Somtow | Diplodocus Press | 978-1-940999-54-8 | $20.00?$: US dollar |
399 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1982) in Locus, #260 September 1982
- Review by Robert A. Collins (1982) in Fantasy Newsletter, #52 October 1982
- Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1982) in Dragon Magazine, December 1982
- Review by Fred Runk (1983) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #11, January-February 1983
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1983
- Review by Frank Catalano (1983) in Amazing Science Fiction, March 1983
- Review by Norman Spinrad (1983) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1983