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Thomas M. Disch

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Born: February 01 1940

Died: 0303 07 20082008

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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 of American suburbia is satirized through the terrible things that happen when the magical gives people the chance to do what they really really want. Perhaps Thomas M. Disch's best known work, though, is The Brave Little Toaster, a reworking of the Brothers Grimm's "Town Musicians of Bremen" featuring wornout domestic appliances -- what was written as a satire on sentimentality became a successful children's animated musical.

Thomas M. Disch committed suicide by gunshot on July 4, 2008.

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Thomas M. Disch

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Camp Concentration

I Shudder at Your Touch

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Eye of The Sibyl

The Genocides

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On Wings of Song

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me

The M.D.: A Horror Story

The Brave Little Toaster

The Businessman

The Prisoner

Selected Poetry of Lord Byron

The Priest

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

The Man Who Had No Idea

Transit of Earth

Horror 2: Los relatos de Twilight Zone

I Shudder at Your Touch: Volume One: Four Tales of Sex and Horror