Thomas M. Disch



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Thomas M. Disch

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born
in Des Moines, Iowa, The United States
February 02, 1940

died
July 05, 2008

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genre
Horror, Science Fiction


About this author

Poet and cynic, Thomas M. Disch brought to the sf of the New Wave a camp sensibility and a sardonicism that too much sf had lacked. His sf novels include Camp Concentration, with its colony of prisoners mutated into super-intelligence by the bacteria that will in due course kill them horribly, and On Wings of Song, in which many of the brightest and best have left their bodies for what may be genuine, or entirely illusory, astral flight and his hero has to survive until his lover comes back to him; both are stunningly original books and both are among sf's more accomplishedly bitter-sweet works.

In recent years, Disch had turned to ironically moralized horror novels like The Businessman, The MD, The Priest and The Sub in which the nightmare...more


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Thomas M. Disch's Books

Average rating: 3.86 · 10,221 ratings · 766 reviews · 158 distinct works · Similar authors
Camp Concentration
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 985 ratings — published 1968 — 14 editions
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions
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The Genocides
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 1965 — 11 editions
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On Wings of Song
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Mad...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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The M.D.
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions
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The Brave Little Toaster
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 133 ratings — 2 editions
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The Businessman
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 154 ratings — 8 editions
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The Priest
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 109 ratings — 7 editions
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The Prisoner
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions
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Quotes by Thomas M. Disch

“Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.”
― Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration
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“It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.”
― Thomas M. Disch, The Brave Little Toaster
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“Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.”
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