“ Thomas Disch has been writing wonderful tales of imagination for years now-stories that sometimes amuse, sometimes sting, sometimes horrify, and sometimes manage to do all three at the same time.”-Stephen King Today no intelligent person dares call him/herself well-read without a thorough grounding in Disch’s startlingly original work.”-Harlan Ellison The danger in commenting on Disch is that one loses all sense of reserve sensible praise is too weak he commands superlatives. “ If contemporary American letters has been lucky enough to find an answer to Borges and Garcia Márquez, to Carlos Fuentes and Günter Grass, it is from Thomas M. Summing up some of his accomplishments, the American Academy of Arts and Letters in a Special Award said, " Novelist, poet, and critic, he has become a most significant literary presence."-American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 1999 His articles and essays were published widely, and he was a radio commentator for WNYC as well as a theatre critic for The Nation and the New York Daily News.
His critical history, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World won the 1999 Hugo Award and 1999 Locus Prize, and his collection of essays, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Two of his children’s books, The Brave Little Toaster and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, were turned into Disney full-length feature cartoon dramas. His novel On Wings of Song won the John W. He published more than ten novels, including The Genocides, Camp Concentration, and 334. Tom Disch (1940-2008) was a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and author of short stories and children’s books.
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