Background
Disch, Thomas Michael was born on February 2, 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Son of Felix H. and Helen Margaret (Gilbertson) Disch.
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Ringtime
(Illustrated by Ann Mikolowski. One of 100 copies signed b...)
Illustrated by Ann Mikolowski. One of 100 copies signed by Disch and Mikolowski out of a total of 975.
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
(A group of angry appliances, having fled to Mars to avoid...)
A group of angry appliances, having fled to Mars to avoid becoming obsolete, now plans to take over the Earth, unless the Brave Little Toaster can stop the invasion.
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Getting into death and other stories
(Stated First Edition. Bound in green cloth and boards. A ...)
Stated First Edition. Bound in green cloth and boards. A Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Soiling to the rear panel of the DJ. Book has some mild dust spotting to the upper page block. First American Edition.
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Orders of the Retina
(One of 1,050 copies. A collection of poems. 45 pages. sti...)
One of 1,050 copies. A collection of poems. 45 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo.
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Black Alice
(When eleven-year-old Alice, a wealthy heiress, is kidnapp...)
When eleven-year-old Alice, a wealthy heiress, is kidnapped, her captors make her invisible to the police. They dye her skin brown and color her hair black, then stash her in a brothel. Alice adjusts to the new environment, but when she learns her father is behind the abduction, the real horror starts.
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(The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World) Author: Thomas M. Disch published on (October, 2000)
(Disch traces Sci-Fi's phenomenal growth from the supernat...)
Disch traces Sci-Fi's phenomenal growth from the supernatural tales of Edgar Allen Poe to the utopian dreams and technological nightmares of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, to today when it has become a multi-billion dollar global entertainment industry. While he highlights the genre's predictive successes, he emphasises its cultural role as both a lens and a medium for the very rapid changes driven by modern technology. Disch traces sci-fi's role in all aspects of modern life and explains how it has become a cultural battlefield even helping us to adjust to new social realities. But Disch is also highly critical of the genre and sees its darker expression in the appearance of suicidal UFO cults. Behind the spaceships and aliens, Disch reveals the blueprints of the dizzying postmodern future we have already begun to inhabit.
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The M.D.: A Horror Story - REVIEW COPY
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Clara Reeve
(Well received novel written by Thomas M. Disch. Clara Ree...)
Well received novel written by Thomas M. Disch. Clara Reeve is a Romantic Shelleyesque homage to the Gothic novels of the 19th century.
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The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch
(Book by Thomas M. Disch)
Book by Thomas M. Disch
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The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
(Bob was the happiest man in the world. His wife was dead,...)
Bob was the happiest man in the world. His wife was dead, and no one suspected him of the murder. His mother-in-law was dying, and would probably leave him an inheritance. With both of them gone, Bob could live the good life. But then Bob's wife came back from the grave . . . and she brought her mother with her.
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The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World By Disch, Thomas M ( Author ) Paperback 2000
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The Priest: A Gothic Romance
(Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest tormented by his ...)
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.
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Here I am There You are Where Were We?
(Collection of poems by Tom Disch, they are poems of intel...)
Collection of poems by Tom Disch, they are poems of intelligent feeling which cumulatively pack a powerful emotional punch
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Echo Round His Bones
(In the near future, there will be two of every man--but o...)
In the near future, there will be two of every man--but only world enough for ONE!
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Fundamental Disch
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The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten by Disch, Thomas M (2008) Paperback
(First Edition)
First Edition
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The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
( This collection by poet and novelist Thomas M. Disch of...)
This collection by poet and novelist Thomas M. Disch offers a generous assortment of his writing on various literary topics, his reviews of plays and opera, and some of his poetry. The first essay, "The Future of the Book," prophesies the decline of print media and the increasing prominence of the internet and hypertext as a means of disseminating authors' work. Unlike Sven Birkerts, Disch does not mourn nostalgically the loss of Gutenberg's printing press. Rather, he speaks with playful aptness of books saturating our landfills. Next, Disch offers an essay on epic verse that juxtaposes such canonical giants as Homer and Virgil with the likes of Michael Lind and some war-inspired American novelists, including John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. He uses Harold Bloom's concept of "the anxiety of influence" as well as the ideas of the poetical voice to segue into a discussion on twentieth-century poet John Ciardi's progression from the "Capitalist of the Po-Biz" in his early career to "the Polonius of American poetry." The essay "Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry" is a scathing and witty critique of the poet as professional. Disch argues that the notion that one can subsist on one's poetry alone while escaping to the Caribbean for vacations and retreats is "grasshopperism at its most presumptuous." All in all, Disch dishes out a sumptuous platter of poems and prose that are certain to satisfy. Thomas Disch is a popular and prolific poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist. He is the author of many works of science fiction and the poetry collections Dark Verses and Light and Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poems.
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The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (Supernatural Minnesota)
( The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Gland...)
The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Glandier, a morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With help from her dead mother and the ghost of poet John Berryman-thoroughly bored of suburban séances and all too eager to lend a hand-Giselle undertakes the elaborate, righteous, and wickedly amusing haunting of her husband. There is justice in the afterlife after all-at least in Minnesota.
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On Wings of Song
(In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leav...)
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.
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Torturing Mr. Amberwell
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Planet Of Exile with Mankind Under The Leash
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Ace Double G-567. 12mo - over 6 3/4 " - 7 3/4 " tall. LeGuin's 2nd book. Cover art by Jerome Podwil. Backed with "Manking Under The Leash" by Thomas M. Disch, cover art Kelly Freas.
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The right way to figure plumbing: 50 poems, 1962-67
(Book by Disch, Thomas M)
Book by Disch, Thomas M
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The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: HOW SCIENCE FICTION CONQUERED THE WORLD Hardcover May 4, 1998
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TRIPLICITY - Echo Round His Bone; The Genocides; The Puppies of Terra
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The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten
( Not since The Da Vinci Code! The only tome ever written...)
Not since The Da Vinci Code! The only tome ever written by God Himself! INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS! In this compelling memoir, the first and hopefully the last of its kind, America’s most divine author reveals the intimate and shocking details of His sudden elevation to the most coveted and least understood position in the universe. In early 2005 (A.D.), wearying of the world’s religious schisms, doctrinal heresies, and manifold editorial sins, Thomas M. Disch took matters into His own hands and became the Deity. As controversial as it is incontrovertible, the moving true story of His awful transformation and its awesome aftermath reveals, at long last, the hidden web that links Disch, Philip K. Dick, Western wear, the Leamington Hotel, and Eternity itself. Read it in fear and trembling. But read it, or else. YOU WILL LAUGH. YOU WILL CRY. YOU WILL PRAY.
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Burn This
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Under Compulsion
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book
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The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
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Barron 4-98. Surrealistic slapstick dark fantasy. Boschian vision of contemporary America,
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Getting into death : the best short stories of Thomas M. Disch.
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The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
(A collection of essays and commentary about poetry provid...)
A collection of essays and commentary about poetry provides reviews of a range of American and English poets, including Kenneth Koch, Jon Ashbery, and Ogden Nash, and offers insight into and criticism of the processes that inspired their work.
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The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
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The Puppies of Terra (aka Mankind Under the Leash)
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The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft
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By Thomas M. Disch - The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft (1999-06-30) Hardcover
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The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: How Science Fiction Conquered the World Paperback - July 5, 2000
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The M.d.: A Horror Story
(Dr. William Michaels owes his worldwide success to a myst...)
Dr. William Michaels owes his worldwide success to a mysterious talisman with terrifying powers. The talisman can only perform if Michaels "charges" it through chilling acts of deliberate evil, and Michaels becomes trapped in a world ravaged by monstrous disorders. "One of the best novels of horror-fantasy I've ever read".--Stephen King.
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The Man Who Had No Idea
(Book by Disch, Thomas M.)
Book by Disch, Thomas M.
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Ringtime
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Planet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash (Ace Double G-597)
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334: A Novel
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- Mankind Under the Leash Cover By Freas
- On Wings of Song (In his seventh novel, Disch reaches a literary high point...)
- 334 (If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he mi...)
- Ringtime (One of 975 numbered copies. Bound in publisher's ori...)
- Planet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash (Ace Double G-597) (1966)
- Mankind under the leash: Being a true and faithful account of the freat upheavals of 2037; with portraits of many of the principals involved; as well ... on the nature of art, revolution & theology
- The Businessman: A Tale of Terror by Thomas M. Disch (1993-08-01) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch (1988-12-01)
- Triplicity (three novels) : Echo Round His Bones, The Genocides, The Puppies of Terra
- Camp Concentration: A Novel
- 334 (1st Sphere edition paperback. vg condition. In stock ship...)
- The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (Bob was the happiest man in the world. His wife was dead,...)
Thomas Michael Disch
Edit ProfileEducation
Student, New York University, 1959-1962.
Career
Drama critic, The Nation, New York City, 1987-1991; drama critic, New York Daily News, 1992-1993; artist-in-residence, College of William and Mary, since 1996.
Works
book
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The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten
( Not since The Da Vinci Code! The only tome ever written...)
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The Priest: A Gothic Romance
(Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest tormented by his ...)
-
The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters
(A collection of essays and commentary about poetry provid...)
-
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (Supernatural Minnesota)
( The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Gland...)
-
On Wings of Song
(In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leav...)
-
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
(A group of angry appliances, having fled to Mars to avoid...)
-
(The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World) Author: Thomas M. Disch published on (October, 2000)
(Disch traces Sci-Fi's phenomenal growth from the supernat...)
-
334
(If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he mi...)
-
Here I am There You are Where Were We?
(Collection of poems by Tom Disch, they are poems of intel...)
-
Black Alice
(When eleven-year-old Alice, a wealthy heiress, is kidnapp...)
-
On Wings of Song
(In his seventh novel, Disch reaches a literary high point...)
-
Echo Round His Bones
(In the near future, there will be two of every man--but o...)
-
The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry)
( This collection by poet and novelist Thomas M. Disch of...)
-
Clara Reeve
(Well received novel written by Thomas M. Disch. Clara Ree...)
-
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
(Bob was the happiest man in the world. His wife was dead,...)
-
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
(Bob was the happiest man in the world. His wife was dead,...)
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Ringtime
(Illustrated by Ann Mikolowski. One of 100 copies signed b...)
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334
(1st Sphere edition paperback. vg condition. In stock ship...)
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Ringtime
(One of 975 numbered copies. Bound in publisher's original...)
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The Businessman: A Tale of Terror by Thomas M. Disch (1993-08-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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The Man Who Had No Idea
(Book by Disch, Thomas M.)
-
The right way to figure plumbing: 50 poems, 1962-67
(Book by Disch, Thomas M)
-
Getting into death and other stories
(Stated First Edition. Bound in green cloth and boards. A ...)
-
Orders of the Retina
(One of 1,050 copies. A collection of poems. 45 pages. sti...)
-
The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch
(Book by Thomas M. Disch)
-
Planet Of Exile with Mankind Under The Leash
(Ace Double G-567. 12mo - over 6 3/4 " - 7 3/4 " tall. LeG...)
-
The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten by Disch, Thomas M (2008) Paperback
(First Edition)
-
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror
(Barron 4-98. Surrealistic slapstick dark fantasy. Boschia...)
-
Under Compulsion
(book)
-
The M.d.: A Horror Story
(Dr. William Michaels owes his worldwide success to a myst...)
- Mankind Under the Leash Cover By Freas
- The M.D.: A Horror Story - REVIEW COPY
- Planet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash (Ace Double G-597) (1966)
- Mankind under the leash: Being a true and faithful account of the freat upheavals of 2037; with portraits of many of the principals involved; as well ... on the nature of art, revolution & theology
- The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World By Disch, Thomas M ( Author ) Paperback 2000
- Fundamental Disch
- Torturing Mr. Amberwell
- The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: HOW SCIENCE FICTION CONQUERED THE WORLD Hardcover May 4, 1998
- TRIPLICITY - Echo Round His Bone; The Genocides; The Puppies of Terra
- Burn This
- Getting into death : the best short stories of Thomas M. Disch.
- The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
- On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch (1988-12-01)
- The Puppies of Terra (aka Mankind Under the Leash)
- The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft
- Triplicity (three novels) : Echo Round His Bones, The Genocides, The Puppies of Terra
- By Thomas M. Disch - The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft (1999-06-30) Hardcover
- The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: How Science Fiction Conquered the World Paperback - July 5, 2000
- Camp Concentration: A Novel
- Ringtime
- Planet of Exile / Mankind Under the Leash (Ace Double G-597)
- 334: A Novel
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The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten
Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Writer's Guild East. M C.
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American