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It should have been the greatest television show ever: conceived by Harlan Ellison, with science advisor Ben Bova and scripts by Dick, Le Guin, Herbert and Van Vogt. A new comic based on The Starlost shows what could have been. More »
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William Gibson shares his dearest science fiction novels with New York Magazine. The best is his blurb for Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren. "It won't work unless you can allow it to become your head for a few weeks." [via DisInfo] More »
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Philip K. Dick predicted virtual reality. But his close contemporary, Thomas M. Disch, predicted Sarah Palin. Writer David Auerbach explores Disch's fascination with the apocalyptic heart of America. More »
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Of all the alternate worlds we're dying to visit, the greatest is that mythical room containing every book that was never written. Here are the dozen unfinished novels by science fiction's greatest authors, that we wish we could read. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5384510&view=rss&microfeed=true Cosmocopia author Paul Di Filippo launched a new column at Barnes & Nobel's website today, and his first column is a memorial of Thomas M. Disch. Di Filippo does a great job putting Disch's life and work into context and puts the late author on a footing with novelist Evelyn Waugh, where he belongs. Well worth checking out. [Barnes & Noble] More »
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I have been alternating between sadness and screaming FUCK! really loudly for the past 24 hours since hearing that brilliant, angry writer Thomas M. Disch killed himself on July 4. He was the author of some of the creepiest, most amazing SF-themed social satires I have ever read. I still get the crawlies when I think about his book The M.D., a contemporary twist on Frankenstein, and of course he's rightly famous for the book Camp Concentration. When I was first contemplating putting io9 together, one of the books I returned to again and again for inspiration was Disch's smart, entertaining book about the history of science fiction: The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. Lucky for those of us who are mourning Disch's passing, literary blogger Ed "Bat Segundo Show" Champion has posted a podcast of the last interview Disch ever did. Champion interviewed him at home a few weeks ago. More »
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