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The Dreams Our Stuff is Made OfFrom one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have...Read More
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Sunday Observer, January 14, 2012
...others. In this second story, I was reminded of Philip K. Dick's personal inspiration and hero, writer Thomas M. Disch and the incredible feat that set before himself in Camp Concentration to write a story of war prisoners given a super drug that...
Guardian.co.uk, November 23, 2011
...Dick confides in Ursula Le Guin that it's the prophet Elijah. Or at least that's what Thomas M Disch (a great SF writer of the 60s and 70s) had suggested. But there is precisely zero possibility that Disch was serious – his take on PKD was that...
Guardian.co.uk, September 16, 2011
...expressing their particular moral concerns. These writers include Brian Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, Langdon Jones and Americans like Thomas Disch and Harvey Jacobs. Of late, and with similar moral intention, Jack Trevor Story has started to write SF, as have...
Design Observer, June 28, 2011
...American writers published in the UK during Moorcock’s hugely influential stewardship of New Worlds magazine also appear: Thomas Disch, author of The Genocides, and Pamela Zoline, still remembered for “The Heat Death of the Universe,” which she...
Edward Feser, October 6, 2011
...they call it the boob tube.) While we’re on the subject of science-fiction, let’s not forget: Thomas Disch, The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World But for first place in the Best Book Title Ever competition, we’ve...
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources, August 10, 2011
...this book really utilizes every tool in both the science fiction and comic book medium. In the ’60′s, Thomas Disch wrote a book about the end of the world called The Genocides, which had a sort of depressing, “going out with a whimper” sort of...
Jamie Todd Rubin, June 10, 2011
...R. Delany Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Phillip K. Dick On the Wings of Song by Thomas Disch Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow Have Space Suit–Will Travel by Robert Heinlein Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein The...
biblioklept, May 21, 2011
...We published this list last year under the heading "Ten Excellent Dystopian/Post-apocalyptic Novels That Aren’t Brave New World or 1984", but what with the Rapture going down and all, why not post it again, this time with links to pieces we've...
biblioklept, May 21, 2011
...to pieces we’ve written on these novels— 1. Riddley Walker , Russell Hoban 2. Camp Concentration , Thomas Disch 3. A Clockwork Orange , Anthony Burgess 4. Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood , Margaret Atwood 5. The Hospital...
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, May 10, 2011
...in either direction would be easy. As the book’s reviewer for the Washington Post , (science fiction writer) Thomas Disch , put it, “Laura’s suffering as she soldiers through her prescribed regimen of chemotherapy is evoked in unsparing detail, but...
