Fire from the Wine-Dark Sea

Starblaze, 1983. Trade paperback, 1st edition. S. P. Somtow's first story collection, writing as "Somtow Sucharitkul." Includes two interviews with the author (by Darrell Schweitzer and by Bob Halliday) an afterword ("In Defense of Ozymandias"), and these works: "Fire from the Wine-Dark Sea" (1979); "The Thirteenth Utopia" (1979); "A Child of Earth and Starry Heaven" (1981); "Kith of Infinity" (1967, poem); "Sunsteps" (1977); "Aquila the God" (1982); "Comets and Kings" (1979); "Angels' Wings" (1980); "Messenger" (1973, poem); "Meeting in Milan Cathedral" (1973, poem); "On an Unfinished Pieta of Michelangelo" (1973, poem); "Dear Caressa or This Towering Torment" (1980); "Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile . . ." (1981); "The What March?" (1982, essay); "The Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine March" (1982, essay); "Darktouch" (1980); "Coaster Time" (1981); "The Four Dragons and the Dying King" (1978, poem); "The Last Line of the Haiku" (1981).