Title: Starship & Haiku
Title Record # 3076
Author: S. P. Somtow
Date: 1981-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: S. P. Somtow
Date: 1981-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the back cover of the Pocket Books first edition: The millennial war left a sullen void where civilization once stood... But then the whales began their song - a mysterious song that resounded throughout the polluted seas and told an ancient heartbreaking tale that moved the survivors to revive an honored ritual...
And at the vanguard stood Takahashi, self-appointed Death Lord - a man gone mad in the wake of the chaos. He saw himself an artist whose greatest creation was a living haiku, with a last line as exquisite as it was final - the end of all human life.
Only one chance remained for Josh Nakamura, for his younger brother Didi, and for Ryoko, the beautiful daughter of a high minister of Japan. They must take the whale's legacy and leave the planet before they too became part of Takahashi's terrible poetic vision..
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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1 | 1982 Locus | Best First 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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Starship & Haiku | 1981-09-00 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Timescape / Pocket Books | 0-671-83601-3 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
207 | 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 | Gerry Daly | |
Das letzte Haiku verhallt | 1983-05-00 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #23427) | 3-442-23427-1 | DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
223+ [1] |
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 | Gilda Belin | |
Starship & Haiku | 1984-03-00 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Pocket Books | 0-671-50361-8 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
207 | 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 | Gerry Daly | |
Starship & Haiku | 1988-07-00 | S. P. Somtow | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-33866-9 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
210 | 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 | David B. Mattingly | |
Starship & Haiku | 1988-07-00 | S. P. Somtow | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-33866-9 | C$4.75?C$: Canadian dollar |
210 | 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 | David B. Mattingly | |
Starship & Haiku | 2009-03-01 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-5053-1 | $29.95?$: US dollar |
208 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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Starship & Haiku | 2009-03-01 | Somtow Sucharitkul | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-5123-1 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
208 | 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 | ||
Starship & Haiku | 2012-12-11 | S. P. Somtow | Audible Studios | $17.95?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
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Starship & Haiku | 2014-01-15 | S. P. Somtow | Diplodocus Press | 978-1-940999-06-7 | $17.52?$: US dollar |
222 | 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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Starship & Haiku | 2021-11-10 | S. P. Somtow | Diplodocus Press | $2.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Reviews
- Review by Jeff Frane (1981) in Locus, #248 September 1981
- Review by Robert A. Collins (1981) in Fantasy Newsletter, #42 November 1981
- Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1981) in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1981
- Review by Baird Searles (1981) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 23, 1981
- Review by Theodore Sturgeon (1982) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, January 1982
- Review by Greg Costikyan (1982) in Ares, #12 January 1982
- Review by Norman Spinrad (1982) in Heavy Metal, January 1982
- Review by Debbie Notkin (1982) in Rigel Science Fiction, #3 Winter 1982
- Review by Jim England (1982) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 5, Number 5
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1982) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1982
- Review by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul] (1983) in Fantasy Newsletter, #61 August 1983 , reprinted in:
- [German] [as by Somtow Sucharitkul] Science Fiction Times, Oktober 1983 (1983)