Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:43:02 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <WSFA-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Tom Disch, 1940 -2008
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On July 4th.

More here:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010413.html#010413

and this, linked at MakingLight:
http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2008/07/06/8402

I remember reading his 1965 novel "The Genocides" when I was 15 or so.  =
Gawd, was that depressing.  Well written, but it would make the new  =
Battlestar Galactica look like an episode of "I Love Lucy".  Here's a plot =
summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Genocides

Johns Hopkins published two collections of his poetry: "Yes, Lets" and =
"Dark Verses and Light" and reprinted his co-authored historical novel =
"Neighboring Lives", which remains in print, the poetry being op.

His nonfiction book "The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of" won the 1999 Hugo.

mjw