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Ackroyd, Peter, First Light, 235–37 Asimov’s New Guide to Science (Asimov), Adams, Douglas, 86 66 Adams, Richard, Watership Down, 23 Astounding Stories (magazine), 8, 74–75 Ægypt (Crowley), 133–35 Aum Shinrikyo (sect), 198 After London (Jeffries), 136 Auster, Paul, City of Glass, 252 After Yesterday’s Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (McCaffery), 257 Babbage, Charles, 147–48 Agape, 192 Back to the Future (‹lm series), 28 Age of Reason, 159 Baen, James, 211, 215 Aldiss, Brian, 28, 244; Barefoot in the Baghdad, 238 Head, 106; New Arrivals, Old Encoun- Baker, Robert A., 227 ters, 105–6 Ballard, J. G., 30, 109; Crash, 244; Alexandria Quartet (Durrell), 135 Empire of the Sun, 28; The Summer Alexie, Sherman, 259 Cannibals, 33–34 Alien (‹lm), 28, 75 Bama, James E., 73–74 Aliens (‹lm), 28 Barefoot in the Head (Aldiss), 106 Allan, John, 39 Barry, Lynda, 252 Allen, Hervey, 40 Barth, John, 252; Giles Goat-Boy, 24; Amalgamemnon (Brooke-Rose), 251 The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, Amazing (magazine), 191 238–41 American Dream, An (Mailer), 164 Barthes, Roland, 21 American Humanist Association, 65 Bartók, Bela, 23 Amis, Kingsley, 5 Batchelor, John Calvin, The Birth of the Analytic Engine, 147 People’s Republic of Antarctica, 125–26 Andersen, Hans Christian, 55 Battle‹eld Earth (Hubbard), 81, 114–15 Anderson, Laurie, 254 Baudelaire, Charles, 43, 47 Anouilh, Jean, 23 Baudrillard, Jean, 257–58 Anthony, Piers, 27, 32, 130 Beat Generation, 31 “Apt Pupil” (King), 83 “Beautiful Stranger, The” (Jackson), Arabian Nights, 238–39, 241 46 Arden, Sherry, 229 Behold the Man (Moorcock), 24 Arena (magazine), 16, 18 Benford, Gregory, 27; Timescape, Argo (ship), 22 102–4, 116, 244 Argos in Canopus (Lessing), 70, 246 Bennett, J. G., 204 ArtNews (magazine), 74 Bergey, Earle J., 72 Asimov, Isaac, 4, 27, 30, 52, 55; The “Berenice” (Poe), 25, 34 Caves of Steel, 65; End of Eternity, Bergman, Ingmar, 95 65–66; Foundation’s Edge, 61–64; Berkey, John, 73 Foundation Trilogy, 61–65, 243; “Let- Besant, Annie, 200–201 ter to the American People,” 205–6; Bester, Alfred, 24, 29 obituary for, 65–66; Opus 300, 65; Best of Arthur C. Clarke, The (Sidgwick Robot Novels, 65–66. See also individ- and Johnson), 58 ual stories Bettelheim, Bruno, 54

263 On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 Bierce, Ambrose, 43 Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Big Brother (1984), 50, 161 Thousand Faces, 24, 196 Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica, Canticle for Leibowitz, A (Miller), 104, The (Batchelor), 125–26 136 Bishop, Michael, 98, 100; No Enemy Cantos (Pound), 94 But Time, 115–17 “Captivity” (Alexie), 259 “Black Cat, The” (Poe), 45 Card, Orson Scott, 98, 100 “Black Ferris, The” (Bradbury), 54 Card Players (Cézanne), 140 Blade Runner (‹lm), 28, 30, 144 Carnegie, Dale, 11 Blake, William, 91, 159, 222 Carroll, Jonathan, Voice of Our Shadow, Blavatsky, Helena (“Madame”), 81–83 199–200, 204; The Secret Doctrine, 203 Carroll, Lewis, 95 Blish, James, 4, 24, 29 Carver, Raymond, 41 Bloodstone, The (Eulo), 80, 82 “Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe), 45 “Body, The” (King), 83 Castaneda, Carlos, 93, 137 Bonestell, Chesley, 72 Castro, Fidel, 160 Book of Days (Wolfe), 142 Catalyst, The (Harness), 111 Book of the New Sun (Wolfe), 27, Catholicism, 190 123–24, 141–43, 244 Caves of Steel, The (Asimov), 65 Borges, Jorge Luis, 22, 108, 133 Cellars (Shirley), 81–82 Bradbury, Ray, 29–30, 43, 72–73; Cervantes, Miguel de, 141 Something Wicked This Way Comes, 54; Cézanne, Paul, 140 Stories of Ray Bradbury, 52–54. See Challenger (space shuttle), 205, 211 also individual stories Chalker, Jack A., Medusa: A Tiger by the Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 243 Tale, 127–29 Brave New World (Huxley), 49–51 Chandler, Raymond, 95 Brave New World Revisited (Huxley), 51 Childhood’s End (Clarke), 59–60 Brooke-Rose, Christine: Amalgamem- Children of Wonder (anthology), 4 non, 251; Xorandor, 250–51 Christianity, 184–89, 199, 222 Brooks, Terry, 27, 31 Chrysalids, The (Wyndham), 4 Brown, Howard V., 74 “Cinderella” (fairy tale), 12 Brown, Jerry, 50 Citadelle (St. Exupery), 57 Browne, Thomas, 226 Citadel of the Autarch (Wolfe), 123–24 Brunel, Isambard, 59 Cities of the Red Night (Burroughs), Bruno, Giordano, 22, 134 248–49 Bryant, Ed, 98–100 City of Glass (Auster), 252 Budrys, Algis, 29; The Engines of the Cixous, Hélène, 258–59 Night, 121–22 Clareson, Thomas, 56 Bug Jack Barron (Spinrad), 124 Clark, Tony, 190 Bukowski, Charles, 41 Clarke, Arthur C., 4, 27, 28, 30, 65; Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange, books about, 55–58, 99; Childhood’s 125, 140 End, 59–60; The Fountains of Paradise, Burns, Jim, 74 59–60, 103; politics and, 207; Reach Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 8, 11, 109 for Tomorrow, 58; Rendezvous with Burroughs, William S.: Cities of the Red Rama, 194; 2001, 59, 61; 2010: Night, 248–49; Naked Lunch, 31 Odyssey Two, 61–64. See also individ- Burton, Richard, 241 ual stories Butler, Samuel, Erewhon, 70 Claw of the Conciliator (Wolfe), 141–43 Butor, Michel, 207 Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess), 125, 140 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 147–48 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (‹lm), 220–22 Campbell, John W., Jr., 8–9, 209 Clute, John, 123

264 INDEX On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 “Cold Equations, The” (Godwin), 5 Difference Engine (Gibson and Sterling), Communion (Strieber), 171–75, 179–82, 147–49 184, 186–88, 223–25; “Pain” and, Different Seasons (King), 82 176–78; Transformation and, 226–30 Disch, Thomas S., The Genocides, 197 Concept of Dread, The (Kierkegaard), 47 Disney, Walt, 53–54 Confessions of a Crap Artist (Dick), 118 Dispossessed, The (LeGuin), 103, 116, Copernicus, 35 244 Corn King and the Spring Queen, The Disraeli, Benjamin, 147 (Mitchison), 24 Divided Self, The (Laing), 221 “Cosmic Loneliness of Arthur C. Divine Comedies (Merrill), 93 Clarke, The” (Clareson), 56 Divine Invasion, The (Dick), 118 counterculture, 11 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Cowley, Malcolm, 98 (Dick), 159. See also Blade Runner Crash (Ballard), 244 Donaldson, Stephen R., 27, 61; White Crews, Frederick C., The Pooh Perplex, Gold Wielder, 127–29 57 Donne, John, 203 Crick, Francis, 50 Doré, Gustave, 73 “Croix, La” (Malzberg), 95–96 Douglas, J. Yellowlees, 253–55 Crowley, John: Ægypt, 133–35; Engine Drake, David, 215, 217 Summer, 136–40, 244 Dreammakers, The (Platt), 92, 129–30 Cruden, Alexander, 198 Dreyfuss, Richard, 221 Cuban Missile Crisis, 160, 163 Dupin, C. Auguste (Poe character), Cutting Edge (Etchison), 174, 178 43, 46 Cyberpunk, 30–32, 144–49 Durrell, Lawrence, 135 Cyborg Manifesto, A (Haraway), 258–59 Dworkin, Andrea, 36 Dylan, Bob, 204 Dann, Jack, 98 Dante (Alighieri), 20, 48, 93, 95 EC Comics, 79 Dark Is the Sun (Farmer), 109–10 Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Darwin, Charles, 17 Remembering (Silverman), 39–41 Darwinism, 147, 199, 208 Egaeus (“Berenice”), 25, 31 Daumal, René, 221 Einstein, Albert, 12 Decline of the West (Spengler), 35 Eliot, T. S., 124, 235; “From Poe to Delany, Samuel R., 3, 28, 120 Valéry,” 25 Dick, Philip K., 14, 28–29; Confessions Ellis, Bret Easton, 33 of a Crap Artist, 118; The Divine Inva- Ellison, Harlan, 29 sion, 118; Do Androids Dream of Electric Empire of the Sun (Ballard), 28 Sheep? 159; The Golden Man, 107–9; End of Eternity, The (Asimov), 65–66 later works of, 151–54, 158–59; Lem Engines of the Night, The (Budrys), on, 242, 244; The Man in the High 121–22 Castle, 151, 155; Orwell and, 161–63; Engine Summer (Crowley), 136–40, 244 The Penultimate Truth, 160, 164–68; Epistle to the Hebrews (Paul), 198 Solar Lottery, 150–54, 158–59; The Epsilons (Brave New World), 49 Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, 152, Erewhon (Butler), 70 168; Total Recall, 28; The Transmigra- “Essay on the Uncanny” (Freud), 46 tion of Timothy Archer, 117–19; Valis, E.T. (‹lm), 28 89, 91–94, 117–19; van Vogt and, Etchison, Dennis, Cutting Edge, 174, 155–57; The Zap Gun, 162. See also 178 Blade Runner Eulo, Ken, The Bloodstone, 80, 82 Di Fate, Vincent, In‹nite Worlds: The Everyman’s Library, 198 Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction, 72–75 “Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe), 46

Index 265 On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 fallout shelter program, 160 Giles Goat-Boy (Barth), 24 Fandom (fan organization), 97 Gilgamesh, 23 Farmer, Philip José, Dark Is the Sun, Gilliatt, Penelope, 57 109–10 Gingrich, Newt, 213–19; Window of Farnham’s Freehold (Heinlein), 208 Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Future, Fate of the Earth, The (Schell), 163 215–16, 219 Fiedler, Leslie, 3 Giraudoux, Jean, 23 Fire›ood (McIntyre), 112–13 globalism, 213–14 First Light (Ackroyd), 235–37 Gnostic Gospels, The (Pagels), 90 “5 Eggs” (Disch), 34 Godwin, Tom, “The Cold Equations,” Flint, Michigan, 28 5 Fly, The (‹lm), 27 Goethe, Wolfgang von, 23, 47 Ford, Henry, 49 Golden Age, 20 Forrest Gump (‹lm), 201 Golden Man, The (Dick), 107–9 Fort, Charles, 24 Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 245 Fortschen, William, 215, 218; Star Voy- Gospels, The, 19 ager Academy, 217 Grand Inquisitor, 197 Foundation (magazine), 16, 58, 231, Grant, Charles L., 85 243 Graves, Robert, 23 Foundation’s Edge (Asimov), 61–64 Greenberg, Martin Harry, 55, 58 Foundation Trilogy (Asimov), 61–65, Greene, Graham, 95 243 Grimm Brothers, 23 Fountains of Paradise (Clarke), 59–60, Griswold, Rufus, 39 103 Guatemala, 190 Frank, Barney, 219 Gurdjieff, G. I., 200, 202–4 Frankenstein, or A Modern Prometheus Gurney, James, 73 (Shelley), 22 Frazer, George, 23 HAL (2001), 26, 62 Frazetta, Frank, 72–75 Haldeman, Joe, 130 Freud, Sigmund, 21, 57, 73, 194; Haraway, Donna, 258–59 “Essay on the Uncanny,” 46 Hardy, Thomas, 236 Friday (Heinlein), 119–21 Harfat, Betty, 57 “From Poe to Valéry” (Eliot), 25 Harness, Charles, 111 Frost, Robert, 160, 163 “Harrison Bergeron” (Vonnegut), 127 Future Shock (Tof›er), 213–18 Heinlein, Robert, 8, 29–30, 33, 52, 61, Futurians, 98 65; Farnham’s Freehold, 208; Friday, 119–21; The Man Who Sold the Moon, Gaia Hypothesis, 35 215; Number of the Beast, 119; politics Galapagos (Vonnegut), 67–71 and, 206–9; Starship Troopers, 13–14, game theory, 156 215, 217; Stranger in a Strange Land, Gammas (Brave New World), 49 243 Geller, Uri, 22 “Helliconia” trilogy (Aldiss), 28 General Motors, 28 Hemingway, Ernest, 68 Genocides, The (Disch), 197 Herbert, Frank, 61 “giANTS” (Bryant), 99 Hero with a Thousand Faces, The (Camp- Gibran, Kahlil, 52 bell), 24, 196 Gibson, William: The Difference Engine Hiroshima, 207 (with Sterling), 147–49; Mona Lisa Hitchcock, Alfred, 84 Overdrive, 144–47; Neuromancer, 145; Hitler, Adolf, 12, 30, 125 Virtual Light, 144–47 Hoffman, Daniel, 41 Gide, André, 23 Homer, 23, 195 Giger, H. R., 74–75 hooks, bell, 256–57

266 INDEX On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 Hopkins, Budd, 224–25 Kafka, Franz, 95; The Metamorphosis, Houston, Sam, 147 138 Hubbard, L. Ron, 155; Battle‹eld Earth, Kagan, Norman, 95 81, 114–15; Slaves of Sleep, 114. See also Karasik, Paul, 252 Scientology Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 160, 164 Hugos (awards), 97 Kierkegaard, Søren, 43, 46–47 “Hunter, Come Home” (McKenna), King, Stephen, 61, 85, 87–88; Carrie, 35–46, 64 82; Different Seasons, 82; IT, 88; Pet Huntington, David, 58 Sematary, 84; Salem’s Lot, 82–83; Huxley, Aldous, 204; Brave New Thinner, 88. See also individual stories World, 49–51; Brave New World King Must Die, The (Renault), 23 Revisited, 51 Kipling, Rudyard, 23 Huxley, T. H., 147 Klein, T. E. D., 87 hyperspace, 22 Knight, Damon, 24, 29, 191 hypertext, 253–54 Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 201–2 Kubrick, Stanley, 61 Ideology and Utopia (Mannheim), 18 “Imagination of the State, The” (PEN Labor Day Group, 99–104; awards Conference), 206 and, 97–98 Imprints on a Corn Dog (Leyner), 254 Laing, R. D., 44, 108; The Divided Self, Inferno (Niven), 218 221 In‹nite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Landis, James, 175, 223 Science Fiction (Di Fate), 72–75 LaRouche, Lyndon, 210 Ing, Dean, 210–11 Lasch, Christopher, 164 Intruders (Hopkins), 224 Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (‹lm), 27 (Barth), 238–41 “Investigations of a Dog” (Kafka), Laumer, Keith, 130 138 Laurendi, Nat, 229 Iron Dream, The (Spinrad), 12–13, 30, Lawrence, D. H., 202 125 Leadbetter, Charles Webster, 200–202 Iron Heel, The (London), 218 League of Nations, 50 Isherwood, Christopher, 204 Lee, Tanith, 98 Island of Doctor Moreau, The (Wells), 18 LeGuin, Ursula K., 30, 35, 112; The Israfel (Allen), 40 Dispossessed, 103, 116, 244 IT (King), 88 Lem, Stanislaw, 158, 244; Microworlds: Writing on Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jackson, Shirley: “The Beautiful 242–43 Stranger,” 46; “The Lottery,” 46, 80 Leonard, Roy, 225–26 James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw, 79, Lessing, Doris: Argos in Canopus, 70, 82 246; The Golden Notebook, 245; The Janissaries (Pournelle), 210 Making of Representative 8, 246; Mara Jazz Age, 49 and Dann, 245–47 Jeffries, Richard, 136 “Letter to the American People” (Asi- Jesus Christ, 89–94 mov et al.), 205–6 Jesus Tales (Linney), 89–91 Levi-Strauss, Claude, 21 Johns, Jasper, 72–73 Lewis, C. S., 115 Johnson, Lyndon B., 160, 163 Leyner, Mark, 254 Jones, Jim, 198 Linney, Romulus, Jesus Tales, 89–91 Joseph and His Brothers (Mann), 23 London, Jack, 218 Joyce, James, Ulysses, 23 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 40 Jung, Carl, 57 Lord of the Swastika (‹ctional Hitler Justine (Durrell), 135 novel), 12

Index 267 On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 Lord Valentine’s Castle (Silverberg), 27 Microworlds: Writing on Science Fiction Lost Traveller, The (Wilson), 136–37 and Fantasy (Lem), 242–43 “Lottery, The” (Jackson), 46, 80 Milford Writers’ Conference, 191 Lovecraft, H. P., 43 millennialist religions, 11 Lower Mathematics (Anderson), 254 Miller, Henry, 41 Lucifer’s Hammer (Niven), 218 Miller, Walter, Jr., 29; A Canticle for Lei- Ludlum, Robert, 61 bowitz, 104, 136 Milne, A. A., 55 MacLaine, Shirley, 200 Milton, John, 93, 195 Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon (Washing- Minneapolis, Minnesota, 192 ton), 198–201, 204 Mirabel (Merrill), 93 Mad Magazine, 17 Mirror for Observers, A (Pangborn), 4 Mailer, Norman, 124–25, 164; An Mitchison, Naomi, 24 American Dream, 164 modernism, 43, 252–53 Making of Representative 8, The (Less- Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson), 144–47 ing), 246 Moorcock, Michael, 30, 36; Behold the Malzberg, Barry, 95–96 Man, 24 Man in the High Castle, The (Dick), 151, Mora, Phillipe, 230 155 Moral Majority, 50 Mann, Thomas, 23 More Than Human (Sturgeon), 4, 7 Mannheim, Karl, Ideology and Utopia, Morris, Janet, 215, 217–18 18–19 Moses, Grandma, 73 Mans‹eld, Katherine, 202 Mount Analogue (Daumal), 221 Man Who Sold the Moon, The (Heinlein), Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf ), 44 215 Murdoch, Iris, 247 Mara and Dann (Lessing), 245–47 Murdoch, Rupert, 214 “Märchen” (Goethe), 23 Museum of Modern Art, 72–73 Martin, George R. R., 98, 100 Mustapha Mond (Brave New World), Martin, John, 73, 193–94 49–51 Mattingly, David, 74 Mutual Assured Survival (Ing and Pour- Mazzucchelli, David, 252 nelle), 210, 215 McAllister, Bruce, Their Immortal Hearts, 89, 95 Nabokov, Vladimir, 239 McCaffery, Larry, 257 Naisbitt, John, 213–14 McCaffrey, Anne, 31, 61, 243 Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 31, 248 McCullough, Colleen, 61 “Narrative of A. Gordon Pym” (Poe), McGonaghal, William, 235 45, 46, 126 McIntyre, Vonda, 98; Fire›ood, 112–13 NASA (National Aeronautics and McKenna, Richard, “Hunter, Come Space Administration), 62, 65, 205, Home,” 35–36, 64 211, 215–17 McKuen, Rod, 52 naturalism, 68 Medusa: A Tiger by the Tale (Chalker), Nebulas (awards), 97 127–29 Neumann, Van, 156 “Meeting with Medusa, A” (Clarke), Neuromancer (Gibson), 145 58 New Age, 200 Megatrends (Naisbitt), 213 New Arrivals, Old Encounters (Aldiss), Merrill, James: Divine Comedies, 93; 105–6 Mirabel, 93; Scripts for the Pageant, 89, Newton, Isaac, 17 93–94, 96 New Wave, 26, 28–33, 98 Merrill, Judith, 29, 102 New Worlds (magazine), 30 Metamorphosis, The (Kafka), 138 New York Times (newspaper), 31 Michelangelo, 194–95 “Night, The” (Bradbury), 52

268 INDEX On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 “Nightfall” (Asimov), 65 Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (Hoffman), 1984 (Orwell), 162. See also Big Brother 41, 43 Niven, Larry: Inferno, 218; Lucifer’s Ham- Pohl, Frederik, 29, 211 mer, 218; Oath of Fealty (with Pour- Pooh Perplex (Crews), 57 nelle), 210, 218; Ringworld, 194 Postmodern American Fiction (anthol- Nixon, Richard, 213 ogy), 252–55, 258–60; “Postmod- No Enemy But Time (Bishop), 115–17 ern Blackness” (hooks) and, Norton, Andre, 130 256–57 Number of the Beast (Heinlein), 119 Pound, Ezra, 94 Pournelle, Jerry, 130, 209–11, 215–17, Oates, Joyce Carol, 44 219 Oath of Fealty (Niven and Pournelle), Power Shift (Tof›er), 213 210, 218 Priest, Christopher, 112 Oedipus, 21 Pringle, David, Science Fiction: The 100 Olander, Joseph, 55, 58 Best Novels, 242–44 Olcott, Henry, 199 Progress and Freedom Foundation, Omni (magazine), 63, 75 213. See also Gingrich, Newt; Once and Future King, The (White), 23 Tof›er, Alvin O’Neill, Eugene, 23 Proust, Marcel, 3 Ono, Yoko, 255 Pseudodoxia Epidemica (Browne), 226 Opus 300 (Asimov), 65 Psyche Zenobia (Poe character), 44 Orage, A. R., 202 Orwell, George, 161–63; 1984, 49–51 Raiders of the Lost Ark (‹lm), 51 Oswald, Lee Harvey, 160 Randles, Jenny, Science and the UFOs Ouspensky, P. D., 202–3 (with Warrington), 172 Ovid, 20, 23 Raphael, 194 Ozick, Cynthia, 23 Reach for Tomorrow (Clarke), 58 Reagan, Ronald, 206, 211, 215–16 Pagan Rabbi, The (Ozick), 23 Renault, Mary, 23 Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels, 90 Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke), 194 “Pain” (Strieber), 176–78 Richmond, Walt and Leigh, 191 Pangborn, Edgar, A Mirror for Observers, Ring of Ritornel, The (Harness), 111 4 Ringworld (Niven), 194 Pascal, Blaise, 204 “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Paterson (Williams), 94 Redemption” (King), 83 Paul, Frank R., 72 Ritter, Bruce, 201 Paul, Saint, 198 Robot Novels, The (Asimov), 65–66 Penultimate Truth, The (Dick), 160, Rockwell, Norman, 53–54 164–68; Orwell and, 161–63 Romans, 192 “Persistence of Vision, The” (Varley), Romanticism, 47 99 Romantic poetry, 159 Pet Sematary (King), 84 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 163–64 Pike, James, 117, 119 Rorty, Richard, 260 Pilate, Pontius, 184 Rucker, Rudy, White Light, 89, 94 Pirsig, Robert, 93 Russ, Joanna, 29 Plank, Robert, 57 Russell, Ken, 200 Platt, Charles: The Dreammakers, 92; Russian Revolution, 203 Dreammakers, Vol. II, 129–30 Poe, Edgar Allan, 32, 35, 39–43; Sagan, Carl, 72 gothic tradition and, 43–48. See also Salem’s Lot (King), 82–83 individual stories Samuelson, David, 58 Poe, Virginia, 40 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 23

Index 269 On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 “Scent of Sasparilla, A” (Bradbury), 54 The Iron Dream, 12–13, 30, 125; Songs Schell, Jonathan, 163 from the Stars, 125; The Void Captain’s Schoenbaus, S., 221 Tale, 124–25; A World Between, 125 Schoenberg, Arnold, 23 Sprague de Camp, L., 5 Science and the UFOs (Randles and War- Stableford, Brian, 193 rington), 172 “Star, The” (Clarke), 58 Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels Starship Troopers (Heinlein), 13–14, 215, (Pringle), 242–44 217 Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 30, 193 Startling Stories (magazine), 72 Science Fiction Studies (journal), 58 Star Trek (television and ‹lm series), Science Fiction Writers of America, 4, 27, 205–6 26, 97 Star Voyager Academy (Fortschen), 217 Scienti‹c American (magazine), 5 Star Wars (‹lm), 17, 27, 28, 61, 99, Scientology, 11, 13, 115. See also Hub- 220 bard, L. Ron “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initia- Scripts for the Pageant (Merrill), 89, tive, 146, 206, 209–11, 215 93–94, 96 Steiner, Rudolph, 202–4 Secret Doctrine (Blavatsky), 203 Sterling, Bruce, The Difference Engine Sendak, Maurice, 55 (with Gibson), 147–49 Shadow of a Torturer (Wolfe), 141 St. Exupery, Antoine de, 57 Shah, Idries, 204 Stonehenge, 235 Sheckley, Robert, 29 Stories: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out, Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, or A Modern Foray (Cixous), 258 Prometheus, 22 Stories of Ray Bradbury, The (Bradbury), Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 159 52–54 Shiner, Lewis, 31 Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), Shirley, John, Cellars, 81–82 243 Silver Age, 19–20 Strangers on a Train (‹lm), 84 Silverberg, Robert, 122, 196; Lord Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 146, Valentine’s Castle, 27 206, 209–11, 215 Silverman, Kenneth, 39–41 Strauss, Richard, 23 Sindbad the Sailor, 238–41 Stravinsky, Igor, 23 Skeptical Inquirer (journal), 227 Strieber, Whitley: Communion, 171–76, Sladek, John, 28 184, 186–88, 227; “Pain,” 176–78; Slan (van Vogt), 4 Transformation, 177–82, 223–26, Slapstick (Vonnegut), 70 228–30 Slaves of Sleep (Hubbard), 114 Sturgeon, Theodore, 29, 130; More Smiles, Samuel, 11 Than Human, 4, 7 Smith, E. E., 8, 17, 19–20, 23 sublimity, 193–94 Society for Creative Anachronism, 195 Summer Cannibals, The (Ballard), 33–34 Solar Lottery (Dick), 150–54, 158–59; van Vogt and, 155–57 Tales from the White Hart (Clarke), 58 Soldier Erect, A (Aldiss), 106 Tate Gallery, 193 “Solid Objects” (Woolf ), 44 “Tell-Tale Heart, The” (Poe), 46 Something Wicked This Way Comes (Brad- Their Immortal Hearts (McAllister), 89, bury), 54 95 Songs from the Stars (Spinrad), 125 Theosophical Society, 200, 203 Southern Gothic school, 43 Theosophy, 199–201 Spengler, Oswald, 35 Thinner (King), 88 Spiegelman, Art, 252 Third Wave, The (Tof›er), 213 Spielberg, Steven, 28, 220–22 Thorpe, Dobbin (Disch pseudonym), Spinrad, Norman: Bug Jack Barron, 124; 191

270 INDEX On SF by Thomas M. Disch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=124446 The University of Michigan Press, 2005 Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Void Captain’s Tale, The (Spinrad), (Dick), 152, 168 124–25 Timescape (Benford), 102–4, 116, Vonnegut, Kurt, 105, 109; Galapagos, 244 67–71; “Harrison Bergeron,” 127; Times Literary Supplement (magazine), 5 Slapstick, 70 Tingley, Katherine, 200 Tof›er, Alvin, 26; Future Shock, 213–18; Wald, Carol, 241 Power Shift, 213; The Third Wave, Walker, Bob, 216 213 Warhol, Andy, 219 Tolkien, J. R. R., 22, 27 Warren, Earl, 160 Total Recall (Dick), 28 Warrington, Peter, Science and the UFOs Transformation (Strieber), 177–82, (with Randles), 172 223–26, 228–30; Communion and, Washington, Peter, Madame Blavatsky’s 171–76, 227 Baboon, 198–201, 204 Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Watergate, 162 (Dick), 117–19 Watership Down (Adams), 23 Treadgold, Mary, 82 Watson, Ian, 16–20 Trout, Kilgore, 70 Watson, James, 50 Turner, J. M. W., 193, 241 Wells, H. G., 9, 242; The Island of Doc- Turner and the Sublime (Reynolds), tor Moreau, 18 193–94 White, T. H., The Once and Future King, Turn of the Screw, The (James), 79, 82 23 Twain, Mark, 115, 238 White Gold Wielder (Donaldson), Twilight Zone (magazine), 79, 85, 87 127–29 2001 (‹lm), 26. See also HAL; Kubrick, White Light (Rucker), 89, 94 Stanley Williamson, Jack, 52 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke), 59, 61 Willis, Connie, 100 2010: Odyssey Two (Clarke), 61–64 Wilson, Robert Anton, 130 Wilson, Steve, 136–38; The Lost Trav- UFOs (Unidenti‹ed Flying Objects), eller, 136–37 184–89. See also Strieber, Whitley Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the “Ugly Duckling, The” (fairy tale), 12 Future (Gingrich), 215–16, 219 Ulysses (Joyce), 23 Wolfe, Gene: Book of Days, 142; Book of Unisys Corporation, 32 the New Sun, 27, 123–24, 141–43, “Unparalleled Adventures of One 244; Citadel of the Autarch, 123–24; Hans Pfaal, The” (Poe), 45 Claw of the Conciliator, 141–43; Uses of Enchantment, The (Bettelheim), Shadow of a Torturer, 141 54 Wolner, Rena, 229 utopian novels, 35–36 Woolf, Virginia, 44 World Between, A (Spinrad), 125 Valis (Dick), 89, 91–94, 117–19 World of Null-A, The (van Vogt), 8, Vallejo, Boris, 72–75 155–58 Vampirella (comic book), 72 World’s Fair (1964), 52 van Vogt, A. E., 9, 24; Slan, 4; The Wyndham, John, 29; The Chrysalids, 4 World of Null-A, 8, 155–58 Variety (magazine), 61 Xorandor (Brooke-Rose), 250–51 Varley, John, 98–99 Verne, Jules, 242 Yale Younger Poets Series, 29 Virtual Light (Gibson), 144–47 Voice of Our Shadow (Carroll), 81–83 Zap Gun (Dick), 162

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