Thomas M. Disch

Thomas M. Disch în 2008

Thomas Michael Disch (n. 2 februarie 1940– d. 4 iulie 2008) a fost un scriitor american de science-fiction și poet. A câștigat Premiul Hugo pentru cea mai bună carte non-ficțiune în 1999, Premiul John W. Campbell Memorial, Premiul Rhysling , două premii Seiun și alte premii.

Lucrări

Romane

• The Genocides, 1965, nominalizare la Nebula pentru cel mai bun roman în 1965
• The Puppies of Terra (inițial publicat sub denumirea Mankind Under the Leash), 1966
• The House That Fear Built (cu John Sladek, sub pseudonimul Cassandra Knye), 1966
• Echo Round His Bones, 1967
• Camp Concentration, 1968, ISBN 0-246-97352-8
• Black Alice (cu John Sladek, sub pseudonimul Thom Demijohn), 1968
• The Prisoner, 1969
• Alfred the Great (sub pseudonimul Victor Hastings), 1969
• 334, 1972, ISBN 0-261-63283-3
• Clara Reeve (sub pseudonimul Leonie Hargrave), 1975, ISBN 0-394-48490-8
• On Wings of Song 1979, ISBN 0-312-58466-0
• Neighboring Lives (cu Charles Naylor), 1981, ISBN 0-684-16644-5
• The Businessman: A Tale of Terror, 1984, ISBN 0-06-015292-3
• The M.D.: A Horror Story, 1991, ISBN 0-394-58662-X
• The Priest: A Gothic Romance, 1994, ISBN 1-85798-090-5
• The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft, 1999, ISBN 0-679-44292-8
• The Word of God, 2008, ISBN 978-1892391773

Nuvele

• Torturing Mr. Amberwell, 1985
• The Silver Pillow: A Tale of Witchcraft, 1988
• The Voyage of the Proteus, 2007
• The Proteus Sails Again, 2008

Colecții de povestiri

• One Hundred and Two H-Bombs, 1966 UK (ediție revizuită, 1971 SUA)
• Fun with Your New Head, 1971 SUA, (Under Compulsion), 1968 Marea Britanie, ISBN 0-586-03265-7           
• White Fang Goes Dingo, 1971 Marea Britanie, ISBN 0-09-004840-7
• Getting into Death, 1973 Marea Britanie, ISBN 0-246-10614-X
• Getting into Death and Other Stories, 1976 US
• Fundamental Disch, 1980, ISBN 0-553-13670-4
• The Man Who Had No Idea, 1982, ISBN 0-553-22667-3
• The Wall of America, 2008, ISBN 978-1-892391-82-7

Pentru copii

• The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1980)
  • London, Grafton Books, 1986. ISBN 0-246-13080-6
  • adaptare pentru film, 1987
• The Tale of Dan De Lion, 1986
• The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, 1988
  • adaptare pentru film, 1998
• A Child's Garden of Grammar, 1997
• The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, 1999 (doar film)

Colecții de poezii

• Highway Sandwiches (cu Charles Platt și Marilyn Hacker), 1970
• The Right Way to Figure Plumbing, 1972, ISBN 0-913560-05-7
• ABCDEFG HIJKLM NPOQRST UVWXYZ, 1981, ISBN 0-85646-073-7
• Burn This, 1982, ISBN 0-09-146960-0
• Orders of the Retina, 1982, ISBN 0-915124-60-2
• Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We, 1984, ISBN 0-09-154871-3
• Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poems, 1989, ISBN 0-8018-3835-5
• Dark Verses and Light, 1991, ISBN 0-8018-4191-7
• Haikus of an AmPart, 1991, ISBN 0-918273-68-4
• The Dark Old House, 1996
• About the Size of It, 2007
• Winter Journey (va apărea)

Non-ficțiune

• The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters, 1994, ISBN 0-312-13448-7
• The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, 1998, ISBN 0-684-82405-1
• The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry, 2002, ISBN 0-472-09750-4
• On SF, 2005, ISBN 0-472-09896-9. O colecție a scrierilor sale critice.

Antologii

• The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future, 1971
• Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings, 1973
• The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian Fiction, 1975
• New Constellations: An Anthology of Tomorrow's Mythologies, 1976 (cu Charles Naylor)
• Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales, 1977 (cu Charles Naylor)

Teatru

• Ben-Hur 1989
• The Cardinal Detoxes 1990

Jocuri video

• Amnesia, 1986

Audio

• "Can you hear me, think tank two?", 2001 (sub pseudonimul Tom Disch). Thought crimes in prose and poetry
• Mecca|Mettle, 2005. Thomas Disch, BlöödHag și Tim Kirk.

Legături externe

• Endzone Disch's website
• Schroedinger's Cake: Website about Thomas M. Disch
• Thomas M. Disch la Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Selected poems
• Obituary and public tribute
• Eulogy by Elizabeth Hand at salon.com
• "Remembering Thomas Disch" by John Crowley in the Boston Review
• "The Prescient Science Fiction of Thomas M. Disch" in The Millions
• Descending a story archived in The Wayback Machine