Here is the table of contents for the upcoming Tachyon Publications anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, which reprints stories published from 1971-2007 making the case for the convergence of mainstream fiction and literary sf: "Angouleme" by Thomas M. Disch "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Ladies...
Most likely anyone who reads this blog knows that gay and lesbian youth are at least four times more likely to kill themselves than their heterosexual counterparts. But what isn’t talked about, or at least mentioned much less, is that elderly homosexual men also share a greater probability of taking their own lives. I think of the fairly recent suicide of Thomas M. Disch, a solid poet, who committed...
Hoping to build a comic fan base for the AMC television series, Marvel Comics has released a free digital preview of their tie-in comic about the remake of the classic television show, The Prisoner . The comic was unveiled at San Diego's ComicCon, along with that long video preview of the upcoming television show. As GalleyCat noted earlier this year, we'd love to see a reprint of Thomas M. Disch...
Go away. Why haven't you left yet? Did you lose track of the exit gate? Allow me to point you in the right direction. It's right over there, downhill, toward the cliff.... yes, keep walking, you'll find it... Awwwww, come on, keep going. Why are you stopping? You came here for something? What might that be asked the medium knowing full well what everybody has been coming here after, until the hereafter...
LGBT people born today: 1845 – Edmonia Lewis – US Sculptor – Died 1911 1947 – Jacques Morali – French Music Producer – Died 15th November 1991 1977 – Julian Vincenzo – Hungarian Porn 1979 – Tijl Dauwe – Belgian Singer / Actor 1982 – Chase Evans – US Porn / Dancer 1982 – Hannah Harper – US Porn / Director And those who...
I can’t remember why I wanted to read The Word of God: or, Holy Writ Rewritten by Thomas M. Disch. I just know that something happened last week when I was working at Reader Services that made me say “I want to read something by Thomas M. Disch,” so I looked him up in our [...]
AwardAnnuals.com has a list of science fiction books in order of how many awards they've won. Here are the top 100 award winners: 1 The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood 2 A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge 3 The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer 4 The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson 5 Neuromancer, by William Gibson 6 The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter 7 Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis 8...
With the growing popularity of ebooks, partnerships between writers and videogames studios need to be exploited There aren't enough novelists writing videogames. Last week, the Vancouver-based independent studio Smoking Gun Interactive announced it would be working on an innovative new game project with the award-winning author Douglas Rushkoff. Responsible for the hip drug novel Ecstasy...
There's talk on the intertubes of remaking The Brave Little Toaster as a Pixarian Extravaganza: ... My own suspicion ... is that Brave [referenced by Pete Docter in an interviews about Pixar's projects in development] is a new adaptation of Thomas M. Disch’s The Brave Little Toaster . Already adapted into an animated film - and two sequels - the original novel was billed by the author as “a...
Organised religion certainly needs the fun poked at it, and Thomas Disch certainly does that here. Now any book that contains the line "Jesus loved creme brulee" would be a sure fire hit with this avowed atheist, but Disch's book is so much more than that. It pokes fun at the concept of religion and God, by being the word of God himself. In this case, the God (there are many) is the author...
This is a very special Haul of Books volume! Why? Because I got some nifty stuff in the mail recently and I'm excited to share it! First up: On SF by Thomas M. Disch (got it on sale at the UCSC bookstore), Marcher by Chris Beckett, and The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (these last two were purchases from Amazon so I could get free shipping for some of my school books). And then...
Today AMC resurrected all 17 episodes of the classic British television show, The Prisoner , and GalleyCat has one simple question: Who will bring back Thomas M. Disch 's novel based on the surreal spy show? Disch died last year , but among his many writing credits was the first novelization of The Prisoner --a spy thriller miniseries seemingly scripted by Franz Kafka and shot by Federico Fellini...
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