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The Word of God, or, Holy Writ Rewritten by Thomas M. Disch (Tachyon Publications, September 10, 2008, 978-1-892391-77-3, $14.95, 177pp, tp, oc, cover: [photo] by Ann Monn)     Rambling theological diatribe interspersed with reprint and new fiction and a serialised new fantasy about a resurrected Philip K. Dick sent back in time to prevent Disch from being born. 14 · The Second Coming of the Christ · Thomas M. Disch · ss 28 · A Man of Mystery · Thomas M. Disch · ss 48 · The Moon on the Crest of the New-Fallen Snow · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Paris Review #135, Summer 1995 51 · Ballade of the New God · Thomas M. Disch · pm Rebel Angels ed. Mark Jarman & David Mason, Sky Line Press, 1996 55 · The New Me · Thomas M. Disch · ss Changes ed. Michael Bishop & Ian Watson, Ace, 1983 76 · Ranch House on the Styx · Thomas M. Disch · sl [Ref. Philip K. Dick] 92 · Proverbs · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Hudson Review Summer 1998 103 · How to Behave When Dead · Thomas M. Disch · pm Apollo Summer 1976 104 · Come, Pleasant Death · Thomas M. Disch · pm Orders of the Retina by Thomas M. Disch, Toothpaste, 1982 106 · Ode on the Death of Philip K Dick · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Washington Post Book World May 23 1982 109 · The School for Traitors · Thomas M. Disch · sl [Ref. Philip K. Dick] 135 · On the Road · Thomas M. Disch · sl [Ref. Philip K. Dick] 151 · Room Service · Thomas M. Disch · sl [Ref. Philip K. Dick] 169 · Deus ex Machina · Thomas M. Disch · sl [Ref. Philip K. Dick]

Yes, Let’s: New and Selected Poems by Thomas M. Disch (The Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1989, 0-8018-3851-7, $8.95, 112pp, tp, co, cover by Martha Farlow)     A hardcover edition (-3835-5, $16.95) was announced but not seen. 1 · New Poems 3 · The Argument Resumed; or, Up Through Tribeca · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry August 1986 4 · Short Flight · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Times Literary Supplement October 26 1984 5 · MCMLXXXIV · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Paris Review #100, Summer/Fall 1986 11 · Skydiver · Thomas M. Disch · pm Amazing Science Fiction Stories September 1985 12 · Dreams: A Darwinian View · Thomas M. Disch · pm The New Republic June 1 1987 13 · Symbols of Love and Death · Thomas M. Disch · pm Shenandoah Winter 1978/1979 14 · At the Grave of Amy Clampitt · Thomas M. Disch · pm Shenandoah Winter 1988 15 · The Viewers and the Viewed: Eurailpass Verses, 1985 · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry July 1986 17 · Slides · Thomas M. Disch · pm 18 · In Defense of Forest Lawn · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry August 1986 20 · Sin and Punishment · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Times Literary Supplement November 2 1984 21 · Birth of a Pillow · Thomas M. Disch · pm Bellevue Press, 1985 23 · Tales of the Forebears · Thomas M. Disch · pm Lake Street Review #23, 1989 24 · Working on a Tan · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry July 1984 27 · Swimming · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Times Literary Supplement July 29 1983 29 · Entropic Villanelle · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry July 1984 30 · March · Thomas M. Disch · pm Boulevard Fall 1988 31 · A Cow of Our Time · Thomas M. Disch · pm Epoch 33 Autumn/Winter 1983 33 · The Right Way to Figure Plumbing 35 · To Jean-Ann · Thomas M. Disch · pm Just Friends 1970 36 · The Blindman’s Sign · Thomas M. Disch · pm New Worlds #195, November 1969 37 · My Mother: A Discussion · Thomas M. Disch · pm Bones Winter 1968 38 · Everything Closes After Midnight: A London Lament · Thomas M. Disch · pm Riverside Quarterly August 1967 39 · Convalescing in London · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Right Way to Figure Plumbing by Thomas M. Disch, The Basilisk Press, 1972 40 · “The Surprise” · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Right Way to Figure Plumbing by Thomas M. Disch, The Basilisk Press, 1972 41 · Portrait of a Tourist · Thomas M. Disch · pm Tribune October 6 1967 42 · A Vacation on Earth · Thomas M. Disch · pm SF 12 ed. Judith Merril, Delacorte, 1968 43 · Learning to Cross the Street · Thomas M. Disch · pm New Measures Winter 1967 45 · ABCDEFG HIJKLM NPOQRST UVWXYZ 47 · Abcedary · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry December 1978 49 · An Allegory · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Little Magazine v11 #1, 1977 50 · The Art of Dying · Thomas M. Disch · pm American Review #18, September 1973 51 · At the Tomb of the Unknown President · Thomas M. Disch · pm Tribune March 31 1978 52 · The Colour Blue · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry October 1976 53 · The Doppelgänger · Thomas M. Disch · pm Transatlantic Review #57, October 1976 54 · D.W. Richmond Gives Directions to the Architect of His Tomb · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry July 1971 55 · Eternity · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry November 1973 56 · Homage to the Carracci · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry September 1974 57 · How to Behave When Dead · Thomas M. Disch · pm Apollo Summer 1976 58 · May · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry January 1973 59 · A Note to Romeo · Thomas M. Disch · pm Transatlantic Review #60, June 1977 60 · Questions Your Children Are Certain to Ask · Thomas M. Disch · pm The New Statesman April 14 1978 61 · The Rapist’s Villanelle · Thomas M. Disch · pm American Review #23, 1975 62 · Zewhyexary · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Times Literary Supplement March 17 1978 65 · Burn This 67 · High Purpose in Poetry · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry May 1978 70 · For Marilyn Hacker · Thomas M. Disch · pm Burn This by Thomas M. Disch, Hutchinson, 1982 71 · Praise · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Little Magazine v10 #1/2, 1976 73 · Poems · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry December 1978 74 · A Concise History of Music · Thomas M. Disch · pm Partisan Review v46 #1, 1979 75 · A Bookmark · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Little Magazine Autumn 1977 77 · Orders of the Retina 79 · The Goldberg Variations · Thomas M. Disch · pm Corridor #2, May/June 1971 80 · Litany · Thomas M. Disch · pm Transatlantic Review #57, October 1976 81 · The Childhood of Language · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Little Magazine Spring/Summer 1978 82 · What It Was Like · Thomas M. Disch · pm Partisan Review v46 #1, 1979 83 · Turner Jigsaw · Thomas M. Disch · pm Orders of the Retina by Thomas M. Disch, Toothpaste, 1982 84 · The Prisoners of War · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry September 1971 85 · Coming of Age · Thomas M. Disch · pm Orders of the Retina by Thomas M. Disch, Toothpaste, 1982 86 · What to Accept · Thomas M. Disch · pm Prairie Schooner Winter 1980/1981 87 · Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We 88 · Here I Am 89 · Coal Miners · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Times Literary Supplement April 10 1981 91 · Prayer to Pleasure · Thomas M. Disch · pm American Review #21, October 1974 93 · Just Before the Cops Arrive · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Paris Review #73, Spring 1978 95 · Waking in a Strange Apartment · Thomas M. Disch · pm The New Statesman July 3 1969 96 · There You Are 97 · Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry January 1973 99 · Ode on the Source of the Foux · Thomas M. Disch · pm Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We by Thomas M. Disch, Hutchinson, 1984 101 · For a Derelict · Thomas M. Disch · pm Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We by Thomas M. Disch, Hutchinson, 1984 102 · You Can Own This Painting for $75 · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Times Literary Supplement February 8 1980 104 · When Your Hand Shakes, When Your Eye’s Meat · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Kenyon Review v5 #4, Autumn 1983 105 · When Your Eyes Meet, When Your Hand Shakes · Thomas M. Disch · pm The Kenyon Review v5 #4, Autumn 1983 106 · Where Were We 107 · A Catalogue · Thomas M. Disch · pm Seshita Winter 1972/1973 108 · Alcohol Island: A Chronicle · Thomas M. Disch · gp Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We by Thomas M. Disch, Hutchinson, 1984 _108 · The Jaws of Safety · Thomas M. Disch · pm ABCDEFG HIJKLM NPOQRST UVWXYZ by Thomas M. Disch, Anvil, 1981 _108 · Serenade · Thomas M. Disch · pm Here I Am, There You Are, Where Were We by Thomas M. Disch, Hutchinson, 1984 109 · The Clouds · Thomas M. Disch · pm Poetry February 1972 112 · Yes, Let’s · Thomas M. Disch · pm Open Places January 1972

Bad Moon Rising ed. Thomas M. Disch (Harper & Row, April 1973, 0-06-011046-5, $6.95, ix+302pp, hc, oa)     Subtitled “An Anthology Of Political Forebodings”. vii · On the Road to 1984 · Thomas M. Disch · in 1 · Ho Chi Minh Elegy · Peter Schjeldahl · pm 2 · Elegy for Janis Joplin · Marilyn Hacker · pm 5 · We Are Dainty Little People · Charles Naylor · ss 22 · Strangers · Carol Emshwiller · ss 27 · Relatives · George Alec Effinger · ss 48 · Riding · Norman Rush · ss 53 · An Apocalypse: Some Scenes from European Life · Michael Moorcock · nv 94 · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · Harlan Ellison · ss 114 · The Great Wall of Mexico · John Sladek · nv 147 · The Village · Kate Wilhelm · ss 158 · In Behalf of the Product · Kit Reed · ss 167 · Hour of Trust · Gene Wolfe · nv 203 · Fighting Fascism · Norman Rush · ss 209 · Cold Turkey · Dick Gallup & Ron Padgett · ss 213 · Where Have All the Followers Gone? · Raylyn Moore · ss 224 · An Outline of History · Malcolm Braly · ss 233 · Two Sadnesses · George Alec Effinger · ss 249 · Everyday Life in the Later Roman Empire · Thomas M. Disch · nv 334 by Thomas M. Disch, MacGibbon & Kee, 1972 287 · Untoward Occurence at Embassy Poetry Reading · Marilyn Hacker · pm 289 · For Apollo 11 · Peter Schjeldahl · pm 291 · Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch · Robert Silverberg · ss

New Constellations ed. Thomas M. Disch & Charles Naylor (Harper & Row, November 1976, 0-06-011036-8, $8.95, 192pp, hc, oa) ix · Mythology and Science Fiction · Thomas M. Disch · in 1 · Fables · David Diefendorf · gp The New York Times December 7 1975 _1 · The Frog Prince · David Diefendorf · vi The New York Times December 7 1975 _3 · Mickey Mouse · David Diefendorf · vi The New York Times December 7 1975 5 · Three Fingers · Gene Wolfe · ss 13 · The Rape of 0000000 · Winn Kearns · ss 17 · Earthblossom · Jon Fast · ss 35 · Yellowhead · Jack Dann & George Zebrowski · ss 43 · Puddle on the Floor · R. A. Lafferty · ss 61 · Hades and Euclid · Harry Martinson; translated by Robert Bly · pm Friends, You Drank Some Darkness ed. & tr. Robert Bly, Beacon Press, 1975 translated from the Swedish (“Hades och Euklides”, Passad, 1945). 65 · Christmas in Watson Hollow · Jerrold Mundis · ss 71 · In a Land of Clear Colors · Robert Sheckley · nv 119 · The Twenty-Eighth Day · Kathryn Paulsen · ss 123 · Call Me Ishtar · Rhoda Lerman · ex Doubleday, 1973 129 · The Harp That Conquered Hell · Beebe Tharp · ss 141 · Extinction of Confidence, the Exercise of Honesty · Michael Conner · ss 157 · Mystery Diet of the Gods: A Revelation · Thomas M. Disch & John T. Sladek · ss Swank October 1976 165 · In Chinistrex Fortronza the People Are Machines · Michael Bishop · ss 183 · Legends from “The Cheshire Cat” · Enrique Anderson Imbert; translated by Isabel Reade · ss 189 · Starbirth · Albert Goldbarth · pm The Little Magazine 1975, as “Envoi: Starbirth” 191 · Notes on the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The New Improved Sun ed. Thomas M. Disch (Harper & Row, September 1975, 0-06-011052-X, $8.95, 208pp, hc, an) 1 · Buck Rogers in the New Jerusalem · Thomas M. Disch · in 5 · Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias · John Sladek · gp _5 · Getting There Is (n-1/n)th the Fun · John Sladek · vi _6 · The Bright Side · John Sladek · vi _6 · Mr. and Ms. America · John Sladek · vi _7 · Empty Promise · John Sladek · vi _8 · The Paradise Problem · John Sladek · vi _9 · What Changed Doyster’s Mind · John Sladek · vi _9 · Handout · John Sladek · vi _10 · Assessment · John Sladek · vi _10 · Art News · John Sladek · vi _11 · Pax Gurney · John Sladek · vi _12 · A Fable · John Sladek · vi _13 · Utopia: A Financial Report · John Sladek · vi _14 · Utopiary · John Sladek · vi _14 · Luck · John Sladek · vi _15 · A Picnic · John Sladek · vi 17 · Repairing the Office · Charles Naylor · nv 37 · What You Get for Your Dollar · Brian W. Aldiss · ex from The Shape of Further Things, Faber and Faber, 1970 49 · The People of Prashad · James Keilty · nv Quark/2 ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1971 81 · A Few Things I Know About Whileaway · Joanna Russ · ex from The Female Man, Bantam, 1975 98 · Drumble · Cassandra Nye · ss 108 · A Clear Day in the Motor City · Eleanor Arnason · ss New Worlds 6 ed. Michael Moorcock & Charles Platt, Sphere, 1973 117 · Settling the World · M. John Harrison · nv 144 · Instead of the Cross, the Lollipop · B. F. Skinner · ex from Walden Two, Macmillan, 1948 157 · I Always Do What Teddy Says · Harry Harrison · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1965 167 · Pyramids for Minnesota: A Serious Proposal · Thomas M. Disch · fa Harper’s Magazine January 1974 171 · The Zen Archer · Jonathan Greenblatt · ss 182 · The Hero as Werwolf · Gene Wolfe · ss 201 · The Change · H. G. Wells · ex from In the Days of the Comet, Macmillan, 1906

The Ruins of Earth ed. Thomas M. Disch (G.P. Putnam’s, November 1971, LC:72-163409, $6.95, 318pp, hc, an, cover by Richard Powers)     Subtitled “An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future”. 7 · On Saving the World · Thomas M. Disch · in 15 · Deer in the Works · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss Esquire April 1955 30 · Three Million Square Miles · Gene Wolfe · ss 35 · Closing with Nature · Norman Rush · nv Massachusetts Review 1970 62 · The Plot to Save the World · Michael Brownstein · ss The Paris Review #48, Fall 1969 69 · Autofac · Philip K. Dick · nv Galaxy Science Fiction November 1955 96 · Roommates · Harry Harrison · nv 121 · Groaning Hinges of the World · R. A. Lafferty · ss 131 · Gas Mask · James D. Houston · ss Nugget 1964 142 · Wednesday, November 15, 1967 · Geo. Alec Effinger · ss 157 · The Cage of Sand · J. G. Ballard · nv New Worlds Science Fiction #119, June 1962 183 · Accident Vertigo · Kenward Elmslie · ss The Paris Review #50, Fall 1970 189 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping October 1952 228 · Do It for Mama! · Jerrold J. Mundis · nv 253 · The Dreadful Has Already Happened · Norman Kagan · nv 274 · The Shaker Revival · Gerald Jonas · nv Galaxy Science Fiction February 1970 305 · America the Beautiful · Fritz Leiber · ss The Year 2000 ed. Harry Harrison, Doubleday, 1970