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Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction writer and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among ...
- American
- New Wave
- Writer, poet
Jul 8, 2008 · July 8, 2008. Thomas M. Disch, an author, poet and critic who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of ...
The death of the American writer Thomas M. Disch, by his own hand, on the Fourth of July, was the last act of a drama that had been unfolding in public for several years. Jump to content.
Jul 9, 2008 · Ann Monn/Tachyon Publications. Novelist, poet and critic Thomas M. Disch was found dead July 4 in an apparent suicide. He was 68. Disch was well known for his science-fiction novels, most notably ...
Jul 7, 2008 · So writes Louis Sacchetti, a military prisoner, in Thomas M. Disch’s classic 1968 novel Camp Concentration. The book’s raw emotional power caused Philip K. Dick to send a paranoid letter to ...
Sep 22, 2008 · Thomas M. Disch shot himself on the Fourth of July. The man whom The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction called "perhaps the most respected, least trusted, most envied and least read of all modern first-rank SF writers" had lost his partner of more than thirty years after a long and expensive and painful illness, and was fighting a losing battle to remain in their rent-controlled apartment—all ...
On the death of the author and poet. T homas M. Disch, the poet and award-winning science fiction writer, committed suicide on July 4; he was sixty-eight. I first heard his name in 1990, while misspending my youth as an actor in New York: Tom Disch was notorious. I showed up to a rehearsal at the now-defunct RAPP Arts Center on the Lower East ...
