{"product_id":"9780472068968-on-sf","title":"On SF","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA last judgment on the genre from science fiction's foremost critic \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Thomas Disch:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most remarkably talented writers around.\"\u003cbr\u003e---\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene.\"\u003cbr\u003e---\u003ci\u003eFantasy and Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTwilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisch's perspectives on his genre are skeptical, novel, and often incendiary. The volume's opening essay, for example, characterizes writers of science fiction as \"the provincials of literature.\" Other essays explore science fiction's roots-Poe, Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Vonnegut-as well as modern practitioners such as Stephen King, Philip Dick, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and William Gibson. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisch entertains and provokes with essays on UFOs, Science Fiction as a Church, and Newt Gingrich's Futurist Brain Trust. \u003ci\u003eClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u003c\/i\u003e and Madame Blavatsky also get the Disch treatment. Throughout, the writing is lively, agile, and irreverent, exhibiting an incisive honesty that is undiluted by Disch's own attachments as a sci-fi practitioner.\u003ci\u003e On SF\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal equally to lovers of science fiction and connoisseurs of the finest critical prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54845437837686,"sku":"9780472068968","price":26.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31788037.jpg?v=1734597441","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780472068968-on-sf","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}