TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Work or, The Secrets of Success" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 17 N1 -

Rpt. in Mississippi Review, no. 47/48 (16.2 & 3) (1988): 170-93.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On Wings of Song Y1 - 1979 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition. London: Gollancz, 1979. Also published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 56.2 - 4 (February - April 1979): 6-61; 101-57; 86-159. Collector's Edition illus. Pat Morrissey with an "Introduction" by James Morrow (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Had No Idea" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia about a society where speaking in public requires a license.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 55.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Winter's Tales 24. Ed. A.D. Maclean (New York: St. Martin's, 1978): 9-49; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 298-335.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Planet of the Rapes" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Douglas Hill KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which rape is the only means of procreation. Otherwise, men and women live completely apart.

JF - The Shape of Sex to Come PB - Pan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drumble" Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Charles Dodd] [Naylor] (1941-2005) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which an English village is encapsulated and kept forever unchanged as a tourist attraction. Everyone inside, who live forever, is provided with all material needs.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U3 -

Cassandra Nye [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias" Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of short utopias gone wrong. Some are jokes rather than serious comment.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hero as Werwolf Y1 - 1975 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the rebel against the dystopian order is a werewolf.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Settling the World" Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd utopia in which god has been found behind the moon and brought back to Earth, where what appears to be a eutopia of peace, plenty, and security develops. But god is an immense beetle, which no one notices, and beetles are replacing humans in positions of authority.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Best SF: 75. The Ninth Annual. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 126-53; and in his The Ice Monkey and other stories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 59-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Get For Your Dollar" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Zen Archer" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jonathan Greenblatt ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

A Zen Buddhist monastery presented as an ideal way of life is undermined by contact with the outside world and its temptations.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pyramids for Minnesota--A Serious Proposal" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A proposal to build pyramids in Minnesota that includes a brief suggestion of a voluntary corps reminiscent of 1905 Wells's samurai.

JF - Harper's Magazine VL - 248 N1 -

Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 167-69 with editor's notes on 167 and 170.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Wall of Mexico" Y1 - 1973 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York SN - 06-011046-5 N1 -

U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hours of Trust" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a war in the United States, some of which is faked.

JF - Bad Noon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Outline of History" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Braly, Malcolm ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which most of the prisoners in California jails are dumped into a huge walled compound in the Nevada desert where they are expected to organize their own affairs, with the expected result.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Relatives" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution, overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Village" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an absolutely typical U.S. village is invaded by U.S. forces raping the young women and killing everyone.

JF - Bad Noon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 277-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where Have All the Followers Gone?" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Raylyn [Thyrza] Moore (1928-2005) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the hippies and acid heads in California are lured to a camp where they are gassed.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 334 Y1 - 1972 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future U.S. as a dystopia with violence, overpopulation, and poverty.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1974.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Roommates" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 312-31; and in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell Books, 1976), 97-120.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wednesday, November 15, 1967" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia as seen by the last man.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pressure of Time" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.

JF - Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prisoner Y1 - 1969 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel depicting the dystopia of the famous television series. See also 1969 McDaniel and 1970 Stine. For the series see Matthew White and Jeffer Ali, The Official Prisoner Companion. New York: Warner Books, 1988; and Dave Rogers, "The Prisoner." In his Danger Man & The Prisoner (London: Boxtree, 1989), 129-254.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1979. Rpt. London: NEL, 1980; in The Prisoner Omnibus (London: Carlton Books, 2002), 4-177; and London: Penguin Books, 2009. While the 2009 edition says that it was first published in the U.S. by Carlton International Media, the book copyright is 1969 and the television series copyright is 1967 by Independent Television Ltd (ITV), and, although one source says it was first published in hardcover in 1967, I have been unable to identify a copy of the 1967 publication. A second, shorter series was produced in 2009 by the U.S. cable network AMC and ITV. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Camp Concentration" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a prison. A war is ongoing, and the protagonist is a conscientious objector.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 51.173 - 176 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1971; and New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Affluence of Edwin Lollard" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which it is a crime to be poor and illiteracy is normal.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in his White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 138-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Invaded by Love" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An alien creates a religion of universal love based on pills that make everyone love each other which brings civilization to a collapse.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 50.166 N1 -

Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 152-75. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 119-43. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 82-102. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 173-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "102 H-Bombs" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism in which in what is officially a "non-war" 30,000 U.S. men are killed every year. To provide more soldiers, all orphanages are taken over by the military and the age for active service is lowered to 14 (the Pentagon wants to lower it to 10). People from a briefly depicted future eutopia visit and help people to recognize the futility of war.

JF - Fantastic Stories of the Imagination VL - 14.3 N1 -

 Rpt in his one hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 9-38. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 8-38. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 7-33. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 130-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gas Mask" Y1 - 1964 A1 - James D. Houston ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.

JF - The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Originally pub. in Nugget (1964).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Control in the U.S.A." Y1 - 1964 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which schizophrenia is seen as a form of social organization. The "thesis" reports on the themes from Orwell's 1949 Nineteen Eighty-four, "Freedom Is Slavery", "Ignorance Is Strength", and "War Is Peace" and adds "Life Is Death" and "Love Is Hate".

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination VL - 13.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Fun With Your New Head (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 177-92. UK ed. of the book as Under Compulsion (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 181-96.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia? Never!!" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia where the economy is based on a product that requires a series of deaths.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 78-81. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs. New York: Berkley, 1971), 78-81. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 67-69. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 86-89.

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