Thomas M. Dischauthor profile |
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| born | February 02, 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| died | July 05, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 nightm...more |
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books by Thomas M. Dischcombine editionsavg rating: 3.81 | 571 ratings | 63 distinct works
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quotes by Thomas M. Disch
"In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a punctured career (for though Rey didn’t live with them, his off-stage presence was as abiding and palpable as that of any paterfamilias away every day at the office). And Daniel himself. But better to be strange together than strange apart. He was glad to have found such a haven at last, and he hoped that most familial and doomed of hopes, that nothing would change. "
— Thomas M. Disch
— Thomas M. Disch
"Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful"
— Thomas M. Disch
— Thomas M. Disch












