Title: A Child of Earth and Starry Heaven

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Title: A Child of Earth and Starry Heaven Title Record # 67835
Author: S. P. Somtow
Date: 1981-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Synopsis: A boy hallucinates playing a game of baseball with Death on a train from Greece.

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Year	Title
1981	A Child of Earth and Starry Heaven [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
2018	The Bad News Express

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Chrysalis 9	1981-09-00	ed. Roy Torgeson	Doubleday	0-385-17251-6	$10.95^?$: US dollar	186	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Tom Barber
Chrysalis 9	1982-10-00	ed. Roy Torgeson	Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.	0-8217-1077-X	$2.50^?$: US dollar	[8]+ 248	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Tony Roberts
Fire from the Wine Dark Sea	1983-09-00	Somtow Sucharitkul	Starblaze / The Donning Company (Starblaze Editions #SB28)	0-89865-252-9	$6.50^?$: US dollar	301	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Lindahn
My Cold Mad Father	2018-09-01	S. P. Somtow	Diplodocus Press	978-1-940999-31-9			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
My Cold Mad Father	2018-09-02	S. P. Somtow	Diplodocus Press	978-1-940999-31-9	$13.00^?$: US dollar	163	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll

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