Hmmm. I find it interesting how 2 stars can mean different things to different books. In the case of The Priest, 2 stars is my way of saying - Hey! I finished you! You weren't completely horrible! But man, oh man, did you miss the mark!Here- we have a book that is just trying waaaay to hard to be...
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 project at 334 East 11th Street live in a world ...
Co-written under the pseudonym Thom Demijohn. In the 1960s, while in Virginia blacks fighting for their civil rights face the Ku Klux Klan, a white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven and blonde, heir to an immense fortune, is held for a ransom of one million dollars. Her...
3.5 stars:This author was recommended to me, and I picked this novel because I liked the weird plot. It's about a matter transmitter that creates an "echo" of a person when they're transported. The echo-people can't communicate with the Real World, can only breathe transported air, etc. The story...
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 world's cities have been reduced to cinder and ash a...