Thomas M. Disch




Thomas M. Disch

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born
February 02, 1940

died
July 05, 2008

place of birth
Des Moines, Iowa, The United States


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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 th...more




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Camp Concentration: A Novel Camp Concentration: A Novel
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.78 — 241 ratings — published 1969
7 editions
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334: A Novel 334: A Novel
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.69 — 108 ratings — published 1970
11 editions
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The Genocides The Genocides
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.76 — 95 ratings — published 1978
8 editions
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The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made O... The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 4.00 — 77 ratings — published 1998
2 editions
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On Wings of Song On Wings of Song
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.80 — 60 ratings — published 1979
10 editions
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The M.D.: A Horror Story The M.D.: A Horror Story
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.70 — 50 ratings — published 1989
7 editions
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The Brave Little Toaster The Brave Little Toaster
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.80 — 45 ratings — published 1986
4 editions
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The Businessman: A Tale of Ter... The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.57 — 44 ratings — published 1984
6 editions
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The Priest: A Gothic Romance The Priest: A Gothic Romance
by Thomas M. Disch
avg rating 3.46 — 35 ratings — published 1994
5 editions
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Black Alice Black Alice
by Thomas M. Disch, John Thomas Sladek
avg rating 3.52 — 27 ratings — published 1968
5 editions
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"Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror."
Thomas M. Disch
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"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 (On Wings of Song)
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"Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known"
Thomas M. Disch (Camp Concentration: A Novel)
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