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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...
A number of projects at the printer are progressing nicely. Here’s a quick rundown. – The Proteus Sails Again (Thomas M. Disch). Proteus is at the printer. We’re waiting for various proofs to arrive and approve before the book is printed. – The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman): We’ve approved the full-color foldout, and the interior color section, [...]
Surely one of the saddest events of the past year for fiction lovers was the announcement of the untimely death of Thomas M. Disch on July 4 by his own hand. As an influential author (CAMP CONCENTRATION, 334 and others) and critic/essayist, Disch exemplified what science fiction could achieve when freed of its genre expectations [...]
(video link) An excellent 1994 BBC documentary, including interviews with Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Thomas M. Disch, Kim Stanley Robinson, Brian Aldiss, Terry Gilliam, an assortment of ex-wives, friends and associates, as well as PKD himself. I liked how this film riffs on Ubik , a favorite of mine, which is probably his most lucid and complete work. Interesting note: Tim Powers was a close friend...
Three months ago, we told you about the tragic suicide of poet, novelist, and literary critic Thomas M. Disch . Last weekend, friends and literary colleagues gathered in New York City to pay respect to Disch's memory, including former Playboy fiction editor Alice Turner (who hosted the gathering), Asimov's Science Fiction editor Sheila Williams , and author Samuel R. Delany . In addition to his family,...
From Matt Staggs : Friends and family of deceased author and poet Thomas M. Disch gathered in remembrance Saturday at the New York City apartment of writer Alice Turner. Disch, who committed suicide on July 4, was the author of numerous novels, short story collections, essays, poems, reviews and more. Just a few of his titles include Camp Concentration , On Wings of Song , The Dreams Our Stuff Is...
Richard Tunicliffe joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about Thomas M. Disch’s “The Squirrel Cage”. It’s a story about a writer writing for no one, or for everyone - he’s not sure which (lol Livejournal). Beezer Magazine’s “Numbskulls” make a brief appearance, as does John Searle’s “Chinese Room” thought experiment, a song by [...]
Cosmocopia author Paul Di Filippo launched a new column at Barnes & Nobel's website today, and his first column is a memorial of Thomas M. Disch. Di Filippo does a great job putting Disch's life and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
J. J. Abrams, the creator of Lost, says that it would be “really fun” to develop an all-text interactive fiction. And, a collector acquires an amazing manuscript: A typed-out text by recently departed Thomas M. Disch, specifying the interactive fiction Amnesia.
... Thomas M. Disch on Whitman's spell . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Here's my review of Robertson's book (complete with the copy desk's emendation relocating Bolton, England, to Massachusetts): A clear-eyed look at Whitman's 'prophets' .
Publishers Weekly has just sounded off on Cherie Priest’s short monster novel, saying “Humor enlivens the action, and Priest (Not Flesh nor Feathers) adds cool touches like Boone’s ghost and an angry phantom woman… Mark Geyer’s illustrations lend oldfashioned atmosphere.” For those looking for a quick, horrific winter read, Those Who Went Remain There Still will [...]
Thomas M. Disch, 1940 - 2008 The man shot himself, presumably over the burden of many recent adverse events--but then he'd always been fascinated with suicide, and can have a friendly, even mordantly flippant attitude towards it. So loud was the outcry over his passing that I missed this obituary (or was too busy to notice it) for over two months. No surprise; he's a writer with a special flavor, one...
I've never given much of a sense here of the books that arrive at Mumpsimus Central each day. Here, then, are some photos of most of the books that have been sent to us in the past two weeks (the only ones I know for sure are missing are advance copies of Thomas M. Disch's The Wall of America and Holly Phillips's The Engine's Child , both of which I immediately put on the to-be-read pile -- though...
