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Broadside limited to 150 signed numbered copies Art and design by Barry Barnes This lovely commemorative broadside was silk screened and printed on Folio an acid free paper with deckle edges It was produced in honor of Tachyon Publications twelfth anniversary Billet douxPoet and cynic Thomas M Disch brought to the sf of the New Wave a camp sensibility and a sardonicism that too much sf had lacked His sf novels include Camp Concentration with its colony of prisoners mutated into super intelligence by the bacteria that will in due course kill them horribly and On Wings of Song in which many of the brightest and best have left their bodies for what may be genuine or entirely illusory astral flight and his hero has to survive until his lover comes back to him both are stunningly original books and both are among sfs accomplishedly bitter sweet works.
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Book billet-doux In later years Disch had turned to ironically moralized horror novels like The Businessman The MD The Priest and The Sub in which the nightmare of American suburbia is satirized through the terrible things that happen when the magical gives people the chance to do what they really really want Perhaps Thomas M Disch s best known work though is The Brave Little Toaster a reworking of the Brothers Grimm s Town Musicians of Bremen featuring wornout domestic appliances what was written as a satire on sentimentality became a successful children s animated musical site_link
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