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If someone asks you to describe a solar power plant you'd likely look to convey an image of row upon row of sun-soaking panels pointing skyward. It's doubtful that the first thought to pop into your ...

SF author, critic, and poet Thomas M. Disch, born 1940, died July 4, 2008, of suicide in his New York City apartment. Ellen Datlow reports that Disch had been depressed for several years, especially ...

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Few people make a successful career of contemplating death and suicide; fewer still approach the subject with the genuine ebullience and elegant despair of the prolific, criminally underappreciated ...

The novelist Thomas M Disch once observed: "America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature." However, the power of reality so ...

Rarely, if ever, has a book brought me so much unmitigated displeasure (Daisy Miller excepted) as Thomas Disch’s The Word of God. To the best of my perception, the central conflict in this work is ...

Even in the genre of science fiction, writer Thomas M. Disch was considered unconventional. The strange new worlds he created were an odd mix: dark and horror-filled, humorous and playful. His work ...