@booklet {3386, title = {Light on the Sound}, year = {1982}, note = {

Rev. as\ The Dawning Shadow: The Light On the Sound. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Part previously published as \"The Thirteenth Utopia.\"\ Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact\ [99].4 (April 1979): 144-60, 162-64; which was rpt. in\ The Annual World\&$\#$39;s Best SF 1980. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 20-42; and in his\ Fire from the Wine Dark Sea\ (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1983), 17-38; and \"Light on the Sound.\"\ Isaac Asimov\&$\#$39;s Science Fiction Magazine\ 4.8 (August 1980): 84-169. Described as the first volume of a trilogy, the series was later extended to four volumes.

}, month = {1982}, publisher = {Timescape}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia that destroys all utopias because of its belief that due to the Fall all utopias are necessarily false. But after the destruction of the twelfth utopia, a thirteenth is discovered that causes those assigned to destroy it to try to save it. The book discusses the nature of utopia. First volume in a series; see\ also 1983, 1984 and 1985 Sucharitkul.

}, keywords = {Male author, Thai author, US author}, author = {Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952)} }