Thomas M. Disch

When Louis Sacchetti, a poet and conscientious objector, refuses to participate in the war against Third World terrorists, he is confined to a special camp where experimental drugs are tested. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Camp Concentration

Number 334, the city street address of a place in which time pivots forward and backward, becomes the setting for a unique odyssey through human history. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Three Hundred and Thirty Four

Traces the development of science fiction from the literary tales of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne into a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry, and explores its impact on American culture.

How Science Fiction Conquered the World

The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of

In a harrowing tale of a futuristic Earth devastated by ecological catastrophe, the world's cities have been destroyed, quick-growing alien plants have overrun the planet, and the desperate human survivors struggle to preserve the last vestiges of human society. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Genocides

In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast

On Wings of Song

Praise for Thomas Disch: "One of the most remarkably talented writers around." ---Washington Post Book World "[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene." ---Fantasy and Science Fiction This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight Zone. Disch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as "the provincials of literature." Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson. Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. 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. On SF will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.

On SF

Now grown up and a doctor, Billy uses the power of the magic stick given to him as a child, to heal, to kill, and to transform the fate of the entire world. Reprint. NYT.

A Horror Story

The M.D.

John Crowley

The wicked first book in Thomas M. Disch's Supernatural Minnesota series.

A Tale of Terror

The Businessman

3 Dozen Poems

A collection of essays about poetry which provides reviews of a range of American and English poets, including Kenneth Koch, Jon Ashbery, and Ogden Nash, and offers criticism of the processes that inspired their work

On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters

The Castle of Indolence

Fun with Your New Head

Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest tormented by his pedophile past and a tormented present, continually finds himself living the life of a thirteenth-century bishop in whose person he confronts scandal, corruption, and horrors in the Church. 15,000 first printing.

A Gothic Romance

The Priest

Bruguera - Ciencia Ficción

Elizabeth Hand

A black comedy tour-de-force now in paperback.

A Study in Witchcraft

The Sub

The third-and most controversial-installment in Thomas M. Disch's Supernatural Minnesota series.

Professor Tom Disch

Dark Verses & Light

Frustrated with the beliefs of all religious institutions, the author decides to recreate himself as God and rants about topics such as his archenemy, fellow author Philip K. Dick, and the ridiculousness of an eternal Hell.

Or, Holy Writ Rewritten

The Word of God

The stories in 334 revolve loosely around a government housing project at 334 East 11th Street in New York City in the 2020s. The project's inhabitants are universally poor, often jobless, sometimes squalid. Some are happy, others angry, depressed, or just numb. The stories study their hopes and disappointments, and all are deeply introspective.

A former secret agent is trapped in a mysterious place called "The Village," where he struggles to maintain his identity as he is psychologically tortured to extract his secrets, in this novelization of the 1960s television program.

The Prisoner

Feeling abandoned by their beloved master, a vacuum cleaner, tensor lamp, electric blanket, clock radio, and toaster undertake a long and arduous journey to find him in a faraway city.

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