Utopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest

1984 Sucharitkul, Somtow [Papinian] (b. 1952). Utopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest. New York: Bantam. Parts were originally published in slightly different form in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine as “Rainbow King.” 5.2 (February 16, 1981): 136-66; “The Web Dancer.” 3.12 (December 1979): 56-80; “The Dust.” 5.8 (August 3, 1981): 110-35; “Remembrances.” 6.4 (March 15, 1982): 54-80; and “Scarlet Snow.” 6.5 (May 1982): 80-99; and as “The Comet That Cried for Its Mother.” Amazing Stories 58.3 (September 1984): 30-49. MoU-St, PSt

Third volume in a series with this volume focusing on a young woman artist struggling for understanding within the dystopia. See also 1982, 1983, and 1985 Sucharitkul. A story that is an early version of part of this volume is “Darktouch.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 4.1(23) (January 1980): 18-41. Rpt. in his Fire from the Wine Dark Sea (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning, 1983), 221-44. The author was born in Thailand and currently lives both there and in the U.S.