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July 08, 2008Thomas Disch Committed SuicideUnforunately, that doesn't seem to surprising to me. Unfortunately, he was depressed much of the time, and I feel he never came to comfort with his talent. And he suffered the very example of not being paid anything like what his writing was worth. Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden (of course) has a good thread on it. Who was Thomas Disch? One of SF's best literary authors. His best work was maybe the edgiest and nastiest SF ever written. I've been rereading my favorite Disch work, Camp Concentration, since I got the news. I like the book even better than on previous reads, and it has a completely different meaning to me now, a good sign of the classic. Maybe I'm just in sympathy with him for dying, but right now I can't think of an SF book I thought was greater. Posted by Jon Kay at July 8, 2008 10:31 PMComments
I'm sorry to hear that. It's always sad when a creative decides that live is no longer worth living. Other sci fi authors seem to go through serious bouts of depression. One of my favorite authors hasn't written a book in years because of it. Philip dick attempted suicide a number of times before finally succombing to a stroke after he saw Bladerunner....hmmmmmm. It's a pretty brutal business to say the least. With the decline of independent bookstores there are fewer outlets to publish to. Please post a comment
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