Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008)
Auteur de Camp Concentration
A propos de l'auteur
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. afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1986 or 1988
Séries
Œuvres de Thomas M. Disch
The Ruins of the Earth (1973) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur, quelques éditions; Introduction — 162 exemplaires
The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry) (2002) 10 exemplaires
Descending 8 exemplaires
Voices of the Kill [short fiction] 7 exemplaires
Fun With Your New Head [short story] 7 exemplaires
Thomas l'incredulo 5 exemplaires
New constellations: An anthology of tomorrow's mythologies (1976) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
The Roaches 5 exemplaires
The Asian Shore {novelette} 4 exemplaires
In Xanadu 4 exemplaires
La stanza vuota 4 exemplaires
Things Lost 3 exemplaires
The Squirrel Cage 3 exemplaires
The Number You Have Reached [short fiction] 3 exemplaires
The Man Who Had No Idea [short fiction] 3 exemplaires
Canned Goods (Short story) 3 exemplaires
The Santa Claus Compromise [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
The Shadow 2 exemplaires
Highway Sandwiches 2 exemplaires
The White Man [short story] 2 exemplaires
Narcissus 2 exemplaires
Total Amnesia: The Complete Text and Programming Notes of the World's Most Famous Lost Computer Game (2021) 2 exemplaires
Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future 2 exemplaires
Minnesota Gothic [short story] 2 exemplaires
The Birds [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
The Owl and the Pussycat [short story] 2 exemplaires
Jour de Fête [short story] 2 exemplaires
The Grown-Up [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Logor koncentracije 1 exemplaire
Torturing Mr. Amberwell 1 exemplaire
Ciencia ficción : primera seleccion 1 exemplaire
334 - 1974 Nebula Award Nominee 1 exemplaire
TRIPLICITY by THOMAS M DISCH Nelson Doubleday 1965 1966 1967 BCE HC [Hardcover] Thomas M Disch 1 exemplaire
Mort et la jeune fille solitaire 1 exemplaire
198…199 1 exemplaire
"A Vacation on Earth" (in SF 12) 1 exemplaire
Poems (in Paris Review 158 - PLIMPTON) 1 exemplaire
Mutability 1 exemplaire
Painting Eggplants {short story} 1 exemplaire
Hard work, or The secrets of success [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
Prayer to Pleasure {poem} 1 exemplaire
The Vengeance of Hera 1 exemplaire
The First Annual Performance Art Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield {short story} 1 exemplaire
A Knight at the Opera {short story} 1 exemplaire
Three Chronicles of Xglotl and Rwang [short story] 1 exemplaire
A Family of the Post-Apocalypse [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Flneurs of Mars 1 exemplaire
The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or, A Shameless Life 1 exemplaire
Terra all'infinito 1 exemplaire
Josie and the Elevator 1 exemplaire
Nada 1 exemplaire
Come To Venus Melancholy 1 exemplaire
The Wall of America [short story] 1 exemplaire
1972 1 exemplaire
The Hawk & the Metaphor 1 exemplaire
Concepts [novelette] 1 exemplaire
Storie del bene e del male 1 exemplaire
Et in Arcadia ego 1 exemplaire
The Revelation [short story] 1 exemplaire
The story of faith [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
In Praise of New York {poem} 1 exemplaire
Quincunx [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
The Fugitive {poem} 1 exemplaire
The Politics of Darkness {poem} 1 exemplaire
Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus {poem} 1 exemplaire
Robot 32 : Nuove costellazioni 1 exemplaire
In Praise of Older Women {short story} 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
999, le livre du millénaire des maîtres du fantastique (1999) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 616 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contributeur — 255 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributeur — 233 exemplaires
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributeur — 216 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contributeur — 199 exemplaires
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories (1988) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 94 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Eighth Annual Collection (1979) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch--"Angouleme" (1978) 40 exemplaires
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires
Holding your eight hands; an anthology of science fiction verse (1969) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1980, Vol. 59, No. 2 (1980) — Auteur — 18 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1983, Vol. 64, No. 5 (1983) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 56. Jeffty ist fünf. (1980) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 15 [Mid-December 1991] (1991) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1989, Vol. 77, No. 4 (1989) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 65. Cyrion in Bronze. (1983) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 10 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 16, No. 4 & 5 [April 1992] (1992) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Auteur — 10 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2002, Vol. 102, No. 4 (2002) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
The Little Magazine, v. 11, #1, Spring 1977 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Little Magazine, v. 10, #1-2, Spring Summer 1976 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
S-Fマガジン 2009年 05月号 [雑誌] — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
季刊NW-SF 1972年 01月 第5号 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Disch, Thomas M.
- Nom légal
- Disch, Thomas Michael
- Autres noms
- Demijohn, Thom
Hargrave, Leonie (pseudonym)
Knye, Cassandra (pseudonym together with John Sladek)
Tharp, Beebe (pseudonym)
Disch, Tom - Date de naissance
- 1940-02-02
- Date de décès
- 2008-07-04
- Lieu de sépulture
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church Columbarium, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- suicide
- Lieux de résidence
- Roseville, Minnesota, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Cooper Union
New York University - Professions
- theater critic
author
poet
playwright
essayist
novelist - Relations
- Naylor, Charles (partner)
- Organisations
- The Nation
New York Daily News
PEN
National Book Critics Circle
Writers Guild of America East - Prix et distinctions
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1981)
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (1999)
Hugo Award (nonfiction work, 1999)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1980)
Pushcart Prize (1998)
Rhysling Award (1981) (tout afficher 12)
Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story (1970, 1982)
British Science Fiction Association Award (1981)
Locus Award (1981, 1999)
Ditmar Award (1969)
Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award (1989)
O. Henry Prize (1975, 1979) - Agent
- Karpfinger Agency
Membres
Discussions
Earth invaded, conquered & terraformed à Name that Book (Août 2012)
Short sci fi story - endless stairs à Name that Book (Décembre 2009)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 154
- Aussi par
- 148
- Membres
- 7,103
- Popularité
- #3,456
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 180
- ISBN
- 215
- Langues
- 9
- Favoris
- 26