Thomas M. Disch

Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008) was among the most literary and darkly intelligent of the New Wave writers. Camp Concentration and the mosaic novel 334 turned science fiction toward interiority, despair and social decay with unusual craft, and his story ‘The Brave Little Toaster’ became a beloved children’s film. Also an accomplished poet and critic, his acerbic vision and stylistic control set him apart; his later years were shadowed by the losses that preceded his death.