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Fanzine: Inquestor Tales

Editor: S. P. Somtow

Language: English

ISSN:

Issues:  5, 2018 – 2020

Websites: ISFDB

Bibliographic comments: Described by the editor as a "personalzine" dedicated to the Inquestor universe.

Inquestor Tales: Despatches from the High Inquest, #1

2018

Library edition: July 2018, 1st edition

Diplodocus Press

ISBN 978-1-9409-9923-4

Trade paperback, 138 pages

$7.50

Notes:

  •  Fiction and essays by S. P. Somtow except where stated. Includes a non-genre essay.

Fiction: The Homeworld of the Heart: The Singing Moons  //  The Rainbow King

Essays: Is Anybody There?  //  Frequently Asked Questions About the Inquestral Highspeech  //  Trilogies, Ursine

Predators, and Tree-Rich Areas  //  The End of Chapter Nine: Reflections on the Year of Mourning for the King of

Thailand  //  Johne Cooke, An Essay About the Inquestor Series

Inquestor Tales: Despatches from the High Inquest, #2

2018

Library edition: September 2018, 1st edition

Diplodocus Press

ISBN 978-1-9409-9917-3

Trade paperback, 155 pages

$7.50

Notes:

  •  Fiction, essays and poetry by S. P. Somtow except where stated.

Fiction: The Homeworld of the Heart: A Woman Cloaked in Shadow  //  The Dust

Essays: Theodore Sturgeon, An Introduction to 'The Darkling Wind'  //  Taboos and Sexualities in the Dispersal of

Man  //  Frequently Asked Questions About the Inquestral Highspeech  //  Butterfly in the Age of Human Trafficking

Poetry: On Seeing a Cigarette Butt in the Butt of a Stone Lion in Angkor Wat

Interview: Darrell Schweitzer, S. P. Somtow Through the Curious Lens of Darrell Schweitzer

Inquestor Tales: Despatches from the High Inquest, #3

2019

Library edition: April 2019, 1st edition

Diplodocus Press

ISBN 978-1-940999-39-5

Trade paperback, 162 pages

$7.50

Notes:

  •  Fiction, essays and poetry by S. P. Somtow.

Fiction: The Child Collector  //  Remembrances  //  The Comet That Cried for Its Mother

Essays: Message from the High Inquest   //  His Beatitude Performs a Wedding

Poetry: Poetry

Interview: Interview by Ellen Datlow

Inquestor Tales: Despatches from the High Inquest, #4

2020

Library edition: February 2020, 1st edition

Diplodocus Press

ISBN 978-1-940999-48-7

Trade paperback, 174 pages

$4.98

Notes:

  •  Fiction, essays and poetry by S.P. Somtow. Includes non-genre essays.

  •  Interior art by Mikey Jiraros.

Fiction: The Space Between Spaces  //  The Thirteenth Utopia  //  The Web Dancer

Essays: A Schism with Rome  //  My Approach to Musical Language in Helena Citrónová  //  Helena's Journey  //  

Forty-Two Years with the Force  //  Frequently Asked Questions About the Inquestral Highspeech – Part III

Interview: Interview by Tomaš Bazika

Inquestor Tales: Despatches from the High Inquest, #5

2020

<  2020, 1st edition

Diplodocus Press

ISBN 978-1-940999-49-4

Trade paperback, 170 pages

$7.99

Notes:

  •  Fiction by S. P. Somtow.

  •  Interior art by Mikey Jiraros.

  •  Incomplete contents.

Fiction: Goddess in the Ruins