Utopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest

TitleUtopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest
Year for Search1984
AuthorsSucharitkul, Somtow [Papinian](b. 1952)
Date Published1984
PublisherBantam
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, Thai author, US author
Annotation

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. 

Additional Publishers

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. 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.

Info Notes

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The author (b. 1952) was born in Thailand and currently lives both there and in the U.S.

Full Text

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.