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	Thomas M. Disch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Culturally, Thomas Disch traveled what now seems like a traditional American path: spending the 1940s and 1950s growing up in the Midwest, he tore away to the Big City as a young adult, entering the 1960s with hungry experimentalism and precocious glee.
		Disch entered the field of science fiction at a turning point, as the pulp adventure stories of its older style began to be challenged by a more serious, adult, and often darker style.
		Disch's incompatibility with the armed forces quickly resulted in a nearly three-month commitment to a mental hospital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_M._Disch (1728 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Disch's world of 2020 isn't just a pretext used to shock readers, but rather a thoroughly imagined future.
		It is generally classified as a so-called "New Wave" SF novel, though Disch himself has said he has little use for the term.
		334 was originally published in 1974 and is another of Disch's books that's lumped in with the United Kingdom's "New Wave" movement.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue113/books.html (1243 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 49, No.2 - July 1992 - POETRY - Mahler's 8th
		Thomas M. Disch is the theater critic for The Nation and the author of seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Dark Verses and Light (1991).
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1992/v49-2-poetry1.htm (139 words)

	Thomas M Disch: The dreams our stuff is made of - an infinity plus review
		The second-greatest iconoclast is of course Thomas M.
		Disch has taken his published thoughts on most of his favourite hobby-horses from over the years -- science-fictional, pseudo-scientific, psychological and political -- and rewritten and expanded them, together with a considerable amount of personal reminiscence and "confession," into this highly entertaining new volume which is sure to annoy a great many people.
		In one sense, it may have a positive effect: Disch is himself "an acclaimed science-fiction writer" (the first line of his book's blurb tells everybody so) and it must be a brave new genre that has such acidulous critics in it.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/plague.htm (966 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
		A digression: Disch cites a number of SF critics in developing his argument, one of whom was responsible for re-igniting my boyhood fascination with the genre when as a graduate student I took his science fiction seminar.
		And although Disch was in the thick of this fray, there is little insider "dirt," although there are hints that Disch has some to dish out, but refrains out of respect for the still living or the memory of the dearly departed.
		Conversely, Disch's admiration for genuine storytelling talent overcomes his disdain for an author's religious or political beliefs, as is the case with Orson Scott Card or, most notably, SF Grandmaster Robert Heinlein, who has captured the attention of disparate zanies from Charles Manson to Newt Gingrich.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/drea37.htm (1224 words)

	Reviewed: Disch's The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
		Thomas Disch is distinctive in that he takes the second view of science-fiction and has also written a comprehensive historical survey of science-fiction.
		Disch's problem with science-fiction is that in spite of the presence of many bona fide scientists in the field (notably Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Michael Crichton, Gregory Benford, and even Carl Sagan), much SF cultivates the first quality so much more than the second, and can actually lead to a suspension of critical thinking.
		Disch mentions in one paragraph that in the McCarthy period of America, SF writers were often free to express pro-Marxist sentiments denied to writers in any other genre.
	www.frankwu.com /Disch.html (3180 words)

	334 - Thomas M. Disch
		Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder.
		But Disch's future is thoroughly imagined, and he's adept at dropping in details of his characters' lives that are commonplace to them but jarring to us.
		It might be something as simple as going to the kitchen to "mix up a glass of milk." Occasionally it's radical, as in the case of Millie, who wants to have a baby but also keep her career.
	www.bookfinder.us /review7/0375705449.html (348 words)

	Thomas Disch - Biography
		"Dystopia or Dischtopia: The Science-Fiction Paradigms of Thomas M. Disch".
		Disch was to feature regularly in The Nation from April '87 to February '93 in the post of theater critic.
		TMD did not return to NYU, and instead took jobs as an insurance claims adjuster, a bank teller, a mortuary attendant, and a proof reader/copy editor to support his writing habit, with further sales resulting to Cele Goldsmith.
	www.michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk /bio.htm (2460 words)

	The Dreams our Stuff is made of - Thomas M. Disch
		Disch himself is here speaking to a more mature audience, but he doesn't quite know how to raise himself out of the muck, ultimately leaving the book an entertaining curiosity but not much more.
		Disch knows what he is talking about, generally -- though he is opinionated (but honest enough to make it clear what his leanings are) -- and his style is generally quite readable.
		Disch revels in sci-fi's mediocrity, explaining how it always has been geared to the 12 year old mind, but we do not accept this as entirely valid.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/dischtm/dreams.htm (561 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Sub: a Study in Witchcraft: Books
		Disch is a great writer, full of good turns of phrase and well described settings, but the characters in this book were made of wood, the plot jumped around to no effect, and I spent the last 100 pages waiting for it to end.
		This is one of Disch's horror novels and - although stand-alone - is a companion novel to The MD, The Businessman and The Priest (the last of which I have not read).
		For Disch at his best, "The Businessman" is a much better read; the dark humor is there, and some of the characters are actually likable.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679442928 (1136 words)

	The Nation, 12/19/1988 - Theater by Disch, Thomas M.
		...THOMAS M. DISCH Waiting for Godot Coriolanus The Devil's Disciple Ghosts She Stoops to Conquer Berenice The existing stock of dramatic literature is such that, were all living playwrights to succumb en masse to writer's block, theaters and audiences could be kept supplied for an indefinite period from the wealth already available...
		The Nation, 12/19/1988 - Theater by Disch, Thomas M. Theater
		...The entire, largish cast entered into the festive spirit of Goldsmith's play as though they'd been enchanted into English gentry, and the effect was not unlike the performance of Farquhar that is the focus of Thomas Kenneally's recent novel The Playmaker...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v247i0019_16.htm (2255 words)

	Ben-Hur
		Disch's script draws parallels "that are painfully clear," according to Kelly, "between Surratt and her daughter (who was imprisoned after her mother was hanged) and Ben-Hur's mother, Miriam, and his sister Tirzah, who are imprisoned in the play.
		Disch's strategy in this aggressive adaptation of Ben-Hur - a truly stunning first play by an accomplished writer - is to fuse a close reading of the original novel with an unsentimental account of General Lew Wallace's life.
		And they were all in the old play." In addition, Disch found a number of surprising differences among the various versions of Ben-Hur - the most surprising being that in the original chariot race, it is Judah Ben-Hur's vehicle that has the sharp-bladed axles, and not Messala's.
	www.thickdescription.org /History/Ben-Hur/ben-hur.html (1439 words)

	Thomas M. Disch: On SF, University of Michigan Press
		Thomas M. Disch is master of many literary genres, including science fiction, poetry, drama, and children's literature.
		Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner.
		Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary.
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 (261 words)

	Thomas M Disch joins Jarrold Literary Agency
		The latest client of the John Jarrold Literary Agency is author Thomas M Disch.
		Disch has been a major name in fiction and non-fiction writing for over thirty years, with novels including Camp Concentration, 334, The MD, The Priest and many others, as well as non-fiction titles over a range of subjects from science fiction to the arts.
		He has also worked as a drama critic, art critic, playwright and painter, and is a poet of note.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /news/arc/2005/nz8221.php (195 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Camp Concentration: Books
		Thomas M. Disch is one of the overlooked masters of science fiction, and Camp Concentration is one of his finest novels.
		But from this tone, Disch develops his themes of the corruption of man, of his baser desires, the absolute horrors of what man is capable of, and where such capacity leads.
		It's evident that Disch set out with the goal in mind of writing a more "literary" sort of science fiction novel than was or is prevalent in the genre.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375705457 (2272 words)

	Thomas M. Disch's The Genocides. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site
		Thomas M. Disch is a gifted writer who is deserving of much more success than he has had.
	www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/d/dischthomasm/thegenocides.html (164 words)

	16759. Disch, Thomas M. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		Disch, Thomas M. The Columbia World of Quotations.
	www.bartleby.com /66/59/16759.html (64 words)

	Camp concentration
		Disch is not renowned for his happy-go-lucky tales and this is no exception.
		A deeply worrying tale as the central character both accelerates in intelligence, but is kept prisoner by forces he now completely transcends.
		It enhances their perceptions and cognitive powers, but they burn out quickly.
	parnham.members.beeb.net /Books/Novels/camp_concentration.htm (131 words)

	Thomas M. Disch: The Castle of Perseverance, University of Michigan Press
		Thomas Disch is a popular and prolific poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist.
		This collection by poet and novelist Thomas M. Disch offers a generous assortment of his writing on various literary topics, his reviews of plays and opera, and some of his poetry.
		Thomas M. Disch: The Castle of Perseverance, University of Michigan Press
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=23541 (314 words)

	The M.D.: A Horror Story Summary & Study Guide
		Disch's fiction tends to be controversial and The M.D. features most of his fiction's controversial traits: a dark vision unrelieved by a happy ending; a satirical humor that lances cherished American values; and the depiction of the basest human motivations.
		An element to pay particularly close attention to is the novel's language; how does Disch's beautiful prose affect his unpleasant subject?
		That the novel offends some people and not others could be a good way to draw group members into a discussion of the novel's merits.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-m_d_a_horror_story/keyquestions.html (200 words)

	Article: Sermonettes, by Thomas M. Disch
		uring 1999-2000, Thomas M. Disch had a weekly broadcast slot on WNYC radio in New York City, reading short commentaries on a wide variety of subjects ranging from topical political issues to broader cultural questions.
		Author of over a dozen novels, five story collections, seven volumes of poetry, two books of criticism, and more, Thomas M. Disch has been publishing since the early 1960s.
		But Disch is only five letters, and all of them but the vowel have good terminal possibilities.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010730/sermonettes.shtml (1942 words)

	Longman Anthology of Short Fiction Online Chapter 2 -- Thomas Disch
		Along with Ursula Le Guin and J. Ballard, Thomas Disch writes what some critics call literary, rather than popular, science fiction.
		One critic suggests the label "absurdist science fiction." Disch’s predominant tone is dark, satiric pessimism, somewhat tempered by wit.
		An introductory essay highlighting Disch’s multiple genres, multiple personae, and eclectic path to a literary career.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/gioialasf_abl/chapter2/custom44/deluxe-content.html (193 words)

	T.M. Disch: The Dreams Out Stuff Is Made Of
		T.M. Disch: The Dreams Out Stuff Is Made Of Thomas M. Disch: The Dreams Out Stuff Is Made Of.
		The vulnerability of the SF community - from Campbell [editor of Astounding Science Fiction] and A.E. Van Vogt down to the naivest teenage fans - to his lure of transcendence may help account for the otherwise puzzling success first of Dianetics, then of Scientology itself.
	www.geocities.com /xenu2000/disch.html (443 words)

	Books by Thomas M. Disch
		Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature.
		An illuminating look at the art of science fiction (with a practitioner's insight into craft), as well as a work of pointed literary and cultural criticism, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of reveals how this "pulp genre" has captured the popular imagination while transforming the physical and social world in which we live.
		At the very moment substitute teacher Diana Turney recovers memories of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, she finds herself weilding a potent brand of witchcraft: the Circe-like ability to turn people into their totemic animals.
	books.bankhacker.com /Thomas+M.+Disch (490 words)

	The Castle of Perseverance : Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry) :: The Castle of Perseverance : Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry) books, reviews and more
		Thomas M. Disch "The Castle of Perseverance : Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry)".
		Thomas M. Duffy, David Jonassen "Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction: A Conversation".
		Thomas M. Greene "Besieging the Castle of Ladies (Occasional Papers/Center for Medieval Early Renaissance Studies, No 4)"
	www.usedbooksseller.com /412136thomas_m_disch.html (173 words)

	Thomas M. Disch
		Thomas Disch is the author of eleven previous novels, including such classic works of science fiction as Camp Concentration, 334, and On Wings of Song, five short story collections, and six volumes of poetry, most recently Dark Verses and Light.
		Disch is an extremely versatile writer, as you can see from his bibliograpy.
		He also writes for The Nation and Poetry Review regularly, and several other publications more occasionally.
	www.onomonopia.com /tom.html (304 words)

	MobyGames - Thomas M. Disch
		Thomas M. Disch has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Cognetics Corporation.
		Thomas M. Disch has been credited with the roles Design.
		Thomas M. Disch was credited on a game in 1986.
	www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,18870 (140 words)

	Locus Online: Thomas M. Disch interview excerpts
		Thomas M. Disch: It's All Methane to Me Thomas M. Disch is the author of Camp Concentration, 334, On Wings of Song, "The Brave Little Toaster", and Hugo-winning nonfiction The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World.
		Search Amazon.com for books by Thomas M. Disch
		The full interview, and bibliographic profile, is published in the June 2001 issue of Locus Magazine.
	www.locusmag.com /2001/Issue06/Disch.html (511 words)

	Thomas M. Disch's Complete List of Books
		M.d., The by THOMAS M. The Prisoner by Thomas M. Disch
		BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER, THE by THOMAS M. The Businessman: A Tale of Terror by Thomas M. Disch
		Fun with your new head (Doubleday science fiction) by Thomas M Disch
	www.3000authors.com /authors/Thomas_M_Disch.htm (89 words)

	Thomas M. Disch Website - Novelist, Poet, Critic
		Extensive details of all of Thomas M. Disch's books, with comprehensive (sort of) listings for his short fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, and miscellaneous efforts.
		But it is as America's premiere modern Gothicist that Disch stands out, in his reinterpretation of Gothic style and modes that underpin much of his fiction and which has found joyous outlet in a multiplicity of narrative formats.
		Created new section IN PERSON with details of Disch's forthcoming public appearances, transcripts of interviews, and the texts of his radio sermonettes.
	www.michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk /tmd.htm (766 words)

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