Thomas M. Disch





Thomas M. Disch

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

died
July 05, 2008


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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


Average rating: 3.79 · 4,761 ratings · 485 reviews · 125 distinct works
Camp Concentration
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1968 — 13 editions
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions
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The Genocides
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions
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On Wings of Song
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions
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The Dreams Our Stuff is Mad...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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The M.D.
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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The Brave Little Toaster
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 95 ratings2 editions
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The Businessman
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 106 ratings8 editions
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The Priest
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 71 ratings7 editions
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The Prisoner
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1969 — 10 editions
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The Businessman The M.D. The Priest The Sub
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3.9026548672566372 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 113 ratings
“Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.”
Thomas M. Disch

“All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.”
Thomas M. Disch, The Genocides

“Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.”
Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration

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