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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) — biography from Camp Concentration… (more)
Camp Concentration 1,096 copies, 28 reviews
334 669 copies, 18 reviews
The Genocides 525 copies, 6 reviews
On Wings of Song 492 copies, 9 reviews
The Prisoner 346 copies, 11 reviews
The M.D. 324 copies, 7 reviews
The Businessman 251 copies, 7 reviews
Fun With Your New Head 229 copies, 4 reviews
Echo round his bones 214 copies, 1 review
The Priest: A Gothic Romance 191 copies, 7 reviews
Black Alice 190 copies, 3 reviews
The Ruins of Earth 159 copies, 2 reviews
The Man Who Had No Idea (Author) 134 copies, 3 reviews
The Wall of America 121 copies, 5 reviews
Triplicity 106 copies
The Puppies of Terra 106 copies, 2 reviews
The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft 90 copies, 3 reviews
Fundamental Disch 81 copies, 3 reviews
The Brave Little Toaster 80 copies, 2 reviews
On SF 60 copies, 3 reviews
Strangeness (Editor) 50 copies
Bad Moon Rising (Editor) 23 copies
A Child's Garden of Grammar 21 copies, 1 review
Burn This 8 copies
Descending 8 copies
Angouleme {short story} 7 copies, 1 review
Ringtime 6 copies, 1 review
The Roaches 5 copies, 1 review
Casablanca 4 copies
The Demi-Urge 4 copies
In Xanadu 4 copies, 1 review
The Squirrel Cage 3 copies, 2 reviews
Canned Goods (Short story) 3 copies, 2 reviews
Things Lost 3 copies
Jour de Fête [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
The Shadow 2 copies
The White Man [short story] 2 copies, 1 review
Narcissus 2 copies
Nada 1 copy
198…199 1 copy
Mutability 1 copy
Celebrity [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
1972 1 copy
Quincunx [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review
The Fugitive {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
The Penultimate Truth (Afterword, some editions) 1,815 copies, 30 reviews
Again, Dangerous Visions (Contributor) 964 copies, 11 reviews
The World Treasury of Science Fiction (Contributor) 865 copies, 2 reviews
The Dark Descent (Contributor) 694 copies, 13 reviews
The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (Contributor) 679 copies, 13 reviews
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (Contributor, some editions) 592 copies, 9 reviews
I Shudder at Your Touch (Contributor; Contributor) 531 copies, 7 reviews
The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy (Contributor) 498 copies, 3 reviews
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (Contributor) 434 copies, 8 reviews
Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (Contributor) 388 copies, 2 reviews
Medea: Harlan's World (Contributor) 282 copies, 5 reviews
Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 248 copies, 3 reviews
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (Contributor) 193 copies, 2 reviews
The Secret History of Science Fiction (Contributor) 193 copies, 6 reviews
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8 (Contributor) 191 copies, 1 review
The Urban Fantasy Anthology (Contributor) 189 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1994 (Contributor) 169 copies, 1 review
Year's Best Fantasy 2 (Contributor) 166 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1998 (Contributor) 160 copies
World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 (Contributor) 139 copies, 3 reviews
Space Odyssey (Contributor) 135 copies, 1 review
SF12 (Contributor) 129 copies
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review
Full Spectrum (Contributor) 116 copies
11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (Contributor) 112 copies, 2 reviews
New Worlds: An Anthology (Contributor) 104 copies, 3 reviews
World's Best Science Fiction: 1965 (Contributor) 101 copies, 2 reviews
Edges (Contributor) 100 copies, 1 review
Fantasy Annual IV (Contributor) 99 copies, 1 review
The Best of Interzone (Contributor) 98 copies
Foundations of Fear (Contributor) 96 copies, 2 reviews
Christmas Stars (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews
Orbit 1 (Contributor) 94 copies, 3 reviews
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories (Introduction, some editions) 91 copies, 4 reviews
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #12 (Contributor) 87 copies, 1 review
Nebula Award Stories 17 (Composer) 86 copies
Future City (Contributor) 86 copies, 1 review
SF: Authors' Choice 4 (Contributor) 83 copies, 1 review
Best SF: 1971 (Contributor) 83 copies
Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review
Orbit 7 (Contributor) 80 copies
England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 79 copies, 3 reviews
The New Tomorrows (Contributor) 77 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 2 (Contributor) 75 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds (Contributor) 69 copies
New Dimensions 1 (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review
New Worlds Quarterly 1 (Contributor) 66 copies
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4 (Contributor) 64 copies
A Fabulous Formless Darkness (Contributor) 64 copies
Masters of Fantasy (Contributor) 63 copies
The Medusa In The Shield (Dark Descent) (Contributor) 63 copies, 1 review
New Worlds of Fantasy (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 2 (Contributor) 61 copies
The New SF (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Transit of Earth (Contributor) 61 copies, 1 review
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Scream Along with Me (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
Best SF: 1970 (Contributor) 59 copies
Interzone: The 2nd Anthology (Contributor) 58 copies, 1 review
Alpha 4 (Contributor) 57 copies
American Christmas Stories (Contributor) 56 copies
Quark/1 (Contributor) 56 copies, 1 review
New Worlds of Fantasy #2 (Contributor) 54 copies
Orbit 6 (Contributor) 54 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 4 (Contributor) 51 copies
New Worlds Quarterly 3 (Contributor) 51 copies
Quark/2 (Contributor) 50 copies, 1 review
The Wounded Planet (Contributor) 47 copies
Alpha 3 (Contributor) 46 copies
Afterlives (Contributor) 46 copies, 1 review
Snake's Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley (Contributor) 45 copies, 1 review
Amazing Stories: The Anthology (Contributor) 44 copies
Explorations of the Marvellous (Contributor) 43 copies, 1 review
New Worlds 5 (Contributor) 41 copies
New Writings in SF-10 (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review
Best SF: 1973 (Contributor) 41 copies, 2 reviews
Fantasy Annual V (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review
Beyond Time (Contributor) 40 copies, 1 review
The Shape of Sex to Come (Contributor) 37 copies, 2 reviews
New Worlds 10 (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review
Quark/4 (Contributor) 35 copies
Isaac Asimov's Father's Day (Contributor) 33 copies, 1 review
Top Fantasy (Contributor) 32 copies
The Berkley Showcase Vol. 2 (Author) 27 copies
The Shores Beneath (Contributor) 26 copies
Omni Best Science Fiction Three (Contributor) 26 copies
Night chills : stories of suspense and horror (Contributor) 21 copies, 1 review
Science fiction verhalen [1969] (Contributor, some editions) 13 copies, 1 review
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (Contributor) 12 copies
Höhenflüge (Contributor, some editions) 11 copies
Histoires de voyages dans l'espace (Contributor) 11 copies
American Review 21 (Contributor) 9 copies
The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (Contributor) 6 copies, 1 review
Omni Magazine March 1983 (Contributor) 4 copies
American Review #23 (Contributor) 4 copies
SF Impulse 10 (Contributor) 4 copies
Døds-layoutet 1 (Author, some editions; Author, some editions) 3 copies, 1 review
SF Impulse 12 (Contributor) 3 copies
Omni Magazine November 1989 (Contributor) 2 copies
Strange Fantasy #13 Fall '70 (Contributor) 1 copy

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