![]() ![]() So it was good news to hear that the small but noteworthy San Francisco publisher Tachyon was bringing out a collection of Disch’s short science fiction, the first in far too many years. No, in the last couple decades he would content himself more with horror novels, theater, children’s books, criticism, poetry, and a raft of learned and sardonic articles and verse published everywhere from Harper’s to the ultraconservative Catholic journal First Things. No matter that he was one of the genre’s brightest lights in the 1960s with his early classics like The Genocides and Camp Concentration, Disch was ultimately too much of a polymath to be confined to one segment of literature for his entire career. ![]() Disch had been writing and publishing steadily up until his tragic suicide in July, it had been a long time since he had fully immersed himself in the world of science fiction. ![]()
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