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Author photo. photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1986 or 1988

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Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008)

Author of Camp Concentration

Includes the names: Tom Disch, Thomas Dishe, Thomas Disch, Thomas M. Dish, Thomas M. Disch, Disch; Thomas M., Thomas Michael Disch, Thomas M. comp. Disch, Thomas M. Disch - Ed., M.THOMAS (1940) DISCH ... (see complete list), Editor Thomas M. Disch, Thomas M. editor. Disch, トマス・M・ディッシュ, トーマス・M・ディッシュ

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Thomas Disch was a popular & prolific poet, playwright, essayist, & novelist. He is the author of many works of science fiction & the poetry collections "Dark verses & Light" & "Yes, Let's: New & Selected Poems". (Publisher Provided) Thomas M. Disch was born in Des Moines, Iowa on February 2, 1940. He dropped out of the architecture program at Cooper Union, and then left New York University after he sold a short story entitled The Double Timer. His first novel, The Genocides, was published in 1965. His other novels include The House That Fear Built, 334, The M.D., The Priest, The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten, and Clara Reeve written under the pseudonym Leonie Hargreave. He won several awards including the 1969 Ditmar Award for Camp Concentration, the O. Henry Award in 1975 for Getting into Death and in 1977 for Xmas, the 1980 John W. Campbell, Jr. Memorial Award for On Wings of Song, and the 1981 British Science Fiction Award for The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances. He was also wrote poetry, opera librettos, plays, and criticism of theater, films and art. His collections of poetry include Here I Am, There You Are, Where Are We; The Dark Old House; Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poetry; and Dark Verses and Light. He won the 1999 biennial Michael Braude Award for Light Poetry for A Child's Garden of Grammar, the Locus and Hugo Awards for 1999 for The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, and the Puschcart Prize for The First Annual Performance Art Festival at Slaughter Rock Battlefield. His criticism appeared in several publications including The Nation, The New York Daily News, and The New York Sun. In 1987, he wrote a script for the television series Miami Vice. He shot himself on July 4, 2008 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Camp Concentration 1,036 copies, 25 reviews
334 628 copies, 16 reviews
The Genocides 485 copies, 4 reviews
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World 464 copies, 10 reviews
On Wings of Song 459 copies, 7 reviews
The Prisoner 329 copies, 10 reviews
The M.D. 309 copies, 6 reviews
The Businessman 239 copies, 6 reviews
Fun With Your New Head 216 copies, 4 reviews
Echo round his bones 194 copies
The Priest: A Gothic Romance 181 copies, 7 reviews
Black Alice 177 copies, 1 review
The Ruins of Earth 141 copies, 2 reviews
The Man Who Had No Idea 126 copies, 3 reviews
The Wall of America 109 copies, 4 reviews
The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters 104 copies, 2 reviews
The Puppies of Terra 103 copies, 2 reviews
The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten 103 copies, 4 reviews
Triplicity 99 copies
Getting into death and other stories 87 copies, 1 review
The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft 85 copies, 3 reviews
Fundamental Disch 77 copies, 3 reviews
The Brave Little Toaster 76 copies, 2 reviews
Planet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash (Ace Double G-597) 63 copies
One Hundred And Two H-Bombs (Berkley S2044) 57 copies, 1 review
On SF 56 copies, 3 reviews
White Fang goes Dingo, and other funny s.f. stories 49 copies
Strangeness (Editor) 49 copies
Neighboring Lives 42 copies
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars 38 copies
Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) 26 copies
The Voyage of the Proteus: An Eyewitness Account of the End of the World 23 copies
Bad Moon Rising (Editor) 23 copies
The Prisoner Omnibus 21 copies
A Child's Garden of Grammar 21 copies, 1 review
The Silver Pillow: A Tale of Witchcraft 20 copies
The New improved sun: An anthology of utopian S-F (Contributor) 20 copies
Ciencia ficcion 1 antologias 15 copies
About the Size of It 14 copies
Dark Verses and Light (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) 12 copies
The Proteus Sails Again 11 copies
Here I am, there you are, where were we 10 copies
Abcdefg hijklm npoqrst uvwxyz 9 copies
The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry… 8 copies
Descending 8 copies
Jetzt ist die Ewigkeit 7 copies
Orders of the Retina 7 copies
Ringtime 7 copies, 1 review
Burn This 7 copies
Voices Of The Kill 6 copies, 1 review
The tale of Dan De Lion 6 copies
Angouleme {short story} 6 copies, 1 review
Problems of Creativeness 5 copies
Fun With Your New Head [short story] 5 copies
Mecca|Mettle 5 copies
New constellations: An anthology of tomorrow's mythologies (Editor) 5 copies
The House that Fear Built 5 copies
The Roaches 5 copies, 1 review
Thomas l'incredulo 4 copies
La stanza vuota 4 copies
Understanding Human Behavior 4 copies
Casablanca 4 copies
Dämmerlicht. Neue unheimliche Geschichten. 4 copies
The Man who Read a Book {short story} 4 copies, 2 reviews
In Xanadu 4 copies, 1 review
Canned Goods (Short story) 3 copies, 2 reviews
The Demi-Urge 3 copies
The right way to figure plumbing: [50 poems, 1962-67] 3 copies
The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch 3 copies
An die Ferne geliebte (Broadside) 3 copies
Torturing Mr. Amberwell 3 copies
Le Livre d'or de Thomas Disch 3 copies
The Asian Shore {novelette} 3 copies
Things Lost 3 copies
The Squirrel Cage 3 copies, 2 reviews
The Man Who Had No Idea [short story] 3 copies
Minnesota Gothic [short story] 2 copies
5 Eggs {short story} 2 copies
Narcissus 2 copies
Fiction, N° 11, Automne 2010 : 2 copies
The Pressure Of Time 2 copies
Highway Sandwiches 2 copies
The White Man [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future 2 copies
Leichen [Erzählung] 2 copies
Jour de Fête [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
The Number You Have Reached 2 copies
The Owl and the Pussycat [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
Alfred the Great 2 copies
Haikus of a Pillow 2 copies
One Night, or, Scheherazade's Bare Minimum {short story} 2 copies, 1 review
The Shadow 2 copies
Torah! Torah! Torah!: Three Bible Tales for the Third Millennium {short… 2 copies, 1 review
Josie and the Elevator 1 copy
The Grown-up 1 copy
198…199 1 copy
Terra all'infinito 1 copy
Nada 1 copy
Total Amnesia: The Complete Text and Programming Notes of the World's… 1 copy
334 [novella] 1 copy
Emanzipation [Erzählung] 1 copy
Poussière de lune: nouvelles 1 copy
Poems (in Paris Review 158 - PLIMPTON) 1 copy
Logor koncentracije 1 copy
Planet Of Exile/Mankind Under The Leash 1 copy
Haikus of an Ampart (Morning Coffee Chapbook Series) 1 copy
The Birds 1 copy
The Santa Claus Compromise 1 copy
"A Vacation on Earth" (in SF 12) 1 copy
The Flneurs of Mars 1 copy
Au coeur de l'écho thomas dish - col présence du futur… 1 copy
Amnesia: Commodore 64 (64k) 1 copy
Amnesia: Atari 800 (64k) 1 copy
Alltagsleben im spätrömischen Reich [Erzählung] 1 copy
Burn This and Other Essays on Criticism (New Edition) 1 copy
Mort et la jeune fille solitaire 1 copy, 1 review
Mutability 1 copy
Amnesia: Apple Ii+ and IIE (64k) 1 copy
Come To Venus Melancholy 1 copy
Concepts [novelette] 1 copy
In Praise of Older Women {short story} 1 copy, 1 review
In Praise of New York {poem} 1 copy
Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory {short story} 1 copy
A Family of the Post-Apocalypse [short story] 1 copy, 1 review
Thomas l'incredulo - 102 bombe H 1 copy
Robot 32 : Nuove costellazioni 1 copy
Painting Eggplants {short story} 1 copy, 1 review
Celebrity [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Vengeance of Hera 1 copy
A Knight at the Opera {short story} 1 copy, 1 review
Prayer to Pleasure {poem} 1 copy
Hard work, or The secrets of success [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
Three Chronicles of Xglotl and Rwang [short story] 1 copy, 1 review
The Wall of America [short story] 1 copy, 1 review
Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
The Politics of Darkness {poem} 1 copy
Thesis on social forms and social controls in the U.S.A. 1 copy
Et in Arcadia ego 1 copy
Storie del bene e del male 1 copy
Küß mich nicht, quäle mich! [Kurzgeschichte] 1 copy
1972 1 copy
The First Annual Performance Art Festival at the Slaughter Rock… 1 copy, 1 review
The Revelation [short story] 1 copy
The Hawk & the Metaphor 1 copy
The Fugitive {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
Nights in the Gardens of the Kerhonkson Prison for the Aged and Infirm… 1 copy, 1 review
Quincunx [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The story of faith [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or, A Shameless Life 1 copy, 1 review
Autograph, S.F. Writer, Signed Collector Card (Mine) (2) 1 copy
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 227 copies, 2 reviews
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of… (Contributor) 206 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (Contributor) 189 copies, 1 review
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 (Contributor) 178 copies, 1 review
Arbor House Treasury of horror and the supernatural (Contributor) 177 copies, 1 review
The Urban Fantasy Anthology (Contributor) 171 copies, 3 reviews
10th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Contributor) 164 copies
The Best American Poetry 1994 (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 156 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1998 (Contributor) 156 copies
World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 (Contributor) 132 copies, 2 reviews
Space Odyssey (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review
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Christmas Stars (Contributor) 90 copies, 2 reviews
Future City (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories (Introduction, some editions) 82 copies, 4 reviews
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 (Contributor) 78 copies, 1 review
SF: Authors' Choice 4 (Contributor) 77 copies, 1 review
Best SF: 1971 (Contributor) 77 copies
Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (Contributor) 77 copies, 1 review
Nebula Award Stories 17 (Composer) 75 copies
Orbit 7 (Contributor) 74 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 2 (Contributor) 73 copies
England Swings SF (Contributor) 72 copies, 3 reviews
The New Tomorrows (Contributor) 71 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds (Contributor) 66 copies
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Contributor) 65 copies, 1 review
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New Dimensions 1 (Contributor) 64 copies, 1 review
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4 (Contributor) 63 copies
The Medusa In The Shield (Dark Descent) (Contributor) 63 copies, 1 review
A Fabulous Formless Darkness (Contributor) 59 copies
Masters of Fantasy (Contributor) 59 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 2 (Contributor) 58 copies
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Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Contributor) 57 copies
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New Writings in SF-10 (Contributor) 37 copies, 1 review
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