![]() Look at the big social novels of the 1960s. Dick killed himself with drugs, Disch with a shotgun. Dick predicted virtual reality Disch predicted Sarah Palin. Disch’s particular gift was to root these qualities in the very heart of America. Ballard’s apocalyptic despair and Philip K. He was as fine a prose stylist as his genres had seen, but he also possessed a nightmarish imagination that combined J.G. He was a gay man who disdained being called a gay writer. ![]() ![]() But Disch also wrote poetry, horror, mysteries, at least one pseudonymous gothic novel, and perhaps best-known, The Brave Little Toaster. He was best known for science-fiction, and three of his novels- Camp Concentration (1968), 334 (1972), and On Wings of Song (1979)-won places in David Pringle’s estimable Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels. Disch (1940-2008) was a brilliant, ornery, and greatly American writer. ![]()
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