Thomas M. Disch

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    December 2021
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The Prisoner

1 - The Prisoner (1969)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Come to Venus Melancholy

    in The Late Great Future
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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

  • The Prisoner

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    The Prisoner - 1

    Brought in from the field against his will, a top-level intelligence agent finds himself a prisoner in the "Village"--a seaside jail for wayward agents--and vows to break free. Reprint. (Tie-in to the classic TV series, starring Patrick McGooghan)...

  • Getting into Death and other stories

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    Stated First Edition. Bound in green cloth and boards. A Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Soiling to the rear panel of the DJ. Book has some mild dust spotting to the upper page block. First American Edition....

  • Triplicity

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  • On Wings of Song

    In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast...

  • The Genocides

    This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells

    In this harrowing novel, the...

  • Echo Round Bones

  • The Puppies of Terra

  • The Man Who Had No Idea



  • Ringtime

  • Strangeness

  • The Brave Little Toaster

  • 334

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    If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing p...

  • The Silver Pillow

  • The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars

  • Camp Concentration

    In this chillingly plausible work of speculative fiction, Thomas M. Disch imagines an alternate 1970s in which America has declared war on the rest of the world and much of its own citizenry and is willing to use any weapon to assure victory.  Louis...

  • Black Alice

  • The M.D.

    After coming into possession of a caduceus gifted with extraordinary powers for good or evil as a child, Billy Michaels becomes increasingly addicted to the power as he learns to use and control the caduceus...

  • The Businessman

    The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Glandier, a morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With hel...



  • The Priest

    At the center of Thomas M. Disch's novel The Priest is Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest with a present-day Minneapolis parish-and a pedophile past. He's spent time at a church-run retreat for priests of his type and returned "rehabilitated" an...

  • The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of

    From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey...

  • The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft

    Following The Businessman, The M.D., and The Priest, Thomas M. Disch, heralded by Newsweek as "the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer," now continues his masterful series of horror-fantasy novels set in his own "supernatural Minnesota."<...

  • On SF

    "Praise for Thomas Disch:

    ""One of the most remarkably talented writers around.""
    ---Washington Post Book World

    ""[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene.""
    ---Fantasy and Science Fiction<...

  • The Voyage of the Proteus

    Subterranean Press is proud to present an original novella by one of speculative fictions most original voices.

    Not since the Odyssey by the Greek poet Homer has there been such a rousing adventure on the high seas, not since the celebrated co...

  • The Word of God

    Not since The Da Vinci Code! The only tome ever written by God Himself! INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS! In this compelling memoir, the first and hopefully the last of its kind, America’s most divine author reveals the intimate and shocking details of Hi...

  • The Wall of America

    These surreal, satiric stories pay a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between our everyday lives and a perilously tangible near-future. In "The Wall of America,” the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between t...

  • The Proteus Sails Again

    In this sequel to The Voyage of the Proteus the action shifts from the wine-dark, action-packed seas of Homeric Greece to the noir and noirer streets of post-Apocalyptic New York, where the Author confronts threats of eviction, of murder, and of the ...

  • Total Amnesia

    The world's most famous lost computer game, by one of the world's most famous science fiction authors, disappeared when the publisher lost the uncompiled version. Now, due to the efforts of people all across the United States, the game has been resto...

  • The Demi-Urge

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    In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The term was adopted by the Gnostics. Although a fashi...



Award-Winning Books by Thomas M. Disch

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
1999 Locus Award -- Nonfiction
On Wings of Song
1980 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas M. Disch has published 29 books.

Thomas M. Disch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Total Amnesia, was published in December 2021.

The first book by Thomas M. Disch, Come to Venus Melancholy, was published in January 1965.

No. Thomas M. Disch does not write books in series.
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