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Praise for Thomas DischOne of the most remarkably talented writers around.Washington Post Book WorldDisch is without doubt one of the really bright lights on th... » 

Praise for Thomas DischOne of the most remarkably talented writers around.Washington Post Book WorldDisch is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SFscene.Fantasy and Science FictionThis collection by the muchloved and lauded sciencefiction writer ThomasDisch spans twentyfive years of his career during which he has supplementedhis creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverseas the Nation the New York Times Book Review the Atlantic Monthly andTwilight Zone.Dischs perspectives on his genre are skeptical novel and often incendiary.The volumes opening essay for example characterizes writers of sciencefiction as the provincials of literature. Other essays explore sciencefictions rootsPoe Bradbury Clarke Asimov Vonnegutas well as modernpractitioners such as Stephen King Philip Dick Robert Heinlein L. RonHubbard and William Gibson.Disch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs Science Fiction as a Churchand Newt Gingrichs Futurist Brain Trust. Close Encounters of the Third Kindand Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout the writing islively agile and irreverent exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undilutedby Dischs own attachments as a scifi practitioner. On SF will appealequally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest criticalprose. «