Sad news...
Ellen Datlow, Making Light and BoingBoing are reporting that SF author Thomas M. Disch committed suicide on July 4th.
Disch is perhaps best known to sf fans for his novels Camp Concentration, 334, On Wings Of Song, and to younger readers for The Brave Little Toaster. (Personally, I was thoroughly impressed with his debut novel, The Genocides). Disch was also an sf critic and wrote the books The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of and On SF. He was 68 years old.
See also:
- Wikipedia entry
- Thomas M. Disch's blog.
- Bibliography at Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
- Obituaries at Locus Online and The New York Times.
- Tachyon rounds up remembrances from around the blogosphere.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday July 06, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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I am not surprised. But I AM sorry. He was a very angry man. As someone who commented on his last entry (on his blog) said: the darkness was bigger than he could handle.
Posted by Pete Tzinski on Sunday July 06, 2008 at 10:10 PM