Tachyon Publications: The Word of God, Thomas M. Disch


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			Thomas M. Disch

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	Thomas M. Disch was the author of such diverse publications as The Prisoner, The Dreams Our Stuff are Made Of, Camp Concentration, and The Brave Little Toaster. A renowned poet and book critic, Disch's review, criticism, and essays were published in The Nation, Harper's, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Entertainment Weekly. He received the John W. Campbell and O'Henry awards and the Pushcart Prize. He divided his time between New York City and rural Pennsylvania. Disch committed suicide on July 4th, 2008.

The Word of God

by Thomas M. Disch

Thomas Disch committed suicide on July 4th, 2008. Further information can be found here.

Read letters to and responses from God
Also by Thomas M. Disch
The Wall of America
Billet-doux (written as Tom Disch)

Trade paperback, $14.95, 192 pp.
July 2008 / 978-1-892391-77-3
Cover design and photograph by Ann Monn
Interior design by John D. Berry

Not since The Da Vinci Code!
The only tome ever written by God Himself!

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS!

In this compelling memoir, the first and hopefully the last of its kind, America's most divine author reveals the intimate and shocking details of His sudden elevation to the most coveted and least understood position in the universe.

In early 2005 (A.D.), wearying of the world's religious schisms, doctrinal heresies, and manifold editorial sins, Thomas M. Disch took matters into His Own hands and became the Deity.

As controversial as it is incontrovertible, the moving true story of His awful transformation and its awesome aftermath reveals, at long last, the hidden web that links Disch, Philip K. Dick, Western wear, the Leamington Hotel, and Eternity itself. Read it in fear and trembling. But read it, or else.

YOU WILL LAUGH. YOU WILL CRY. YOU WILL PRAY.

Tom Disch is the Devil! He says he's God, but he's not. Read this book against my warning, and at your peril. Every page you turn will send you deeper into the abyss. Tom Disch is America's own Mephistopheles!
-Alice K. Turner, author of The History of Hell

The god Disch is brilliant, startling, playful, vengeful, poetic, and kind of scary. As gods go, we could do worse. The writer Disch is brilliant, startling, playful, vengeful, poetic, and kind of scary. As writers go, there is no one better.
-Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austin Book Club.

Diversely gifted...entirely original...joyously versatile...a unique talent.
-Newsweek

Of course, Tom has always been Jovial. . .but an actual divinity? Only now must I relinquish my birthright atheism, in recognition of the presence of a literary god. An obscure Vietnamese cult worshipped Victor Hugo, and I was tempted, but that was long ago, and they have passed from the scene.
-Norman Rush, author of Mating and Mortals

One of the most remarkably talented writers around.
-Washington Post Book World

"When it comes to Thomas Disch, label makers scratch their heads.... This literary chameleon redefined science fiction with novels that have been compared to the best from Orwell to Huxley, wrote bestselling children's books about talking kitchen appliances, earned censure from the Catholic Church for an off-Broadway play, published light verse, twisted the pulp conventions of gothic fiction, experimented with interactive software, and demolished the American poetry establishment, UFO cults, and other sacred cows in brilliant critical essays."
-Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Novelist, poet, and critic, he has become a most significant literary presence.
-American Academy of Arts and Letters

I first came to believe in God when he successfully cured my cancer in 1969. A few years later he again answered my prayers by laying his hands on my first wife's belly and ensuring that our child would be a son. On almost every occasion when I have prayed sincerely and selfishly to God in whatever country I have been in he has answered me with his generous blessings most recently when he cured my diabetes in what I call the Miracle of the I-35 Dairy Queen. I cannot worship nor give my heart to a more beneficent or loving God than He. I have thanked God on every occasion I have been presented with a major literary prize or when those I consider my literary rivals and enemies have been denied awards or been struck with deadly diseases.
-Michael Moorcock, author of Stealer of Souls and Behold the Man

A lovely, funny, interesting, incisive, and wonderfully blasphemous novel.
-Jeff VanderMeer, author of City of Saints and Madmen and Shriek

It has been the happy fate of myself, my twin brother Greg, and our two younger sibs, Gary and Nancy, to have grown up with a god for an older brother. Sometimes it has been difficult to get along with such a perfect know-it-all, but didn't Jesus's siblings have the same blessed problem? What can I say? We adore him.
-Jeffrey James Disch

I had never thought of Tom as stooping to God before, but it turns out to have been a good idea. It's good to hear from a Voice up there that knows the score, knows how to share His laughter with those who are mostly victims of His terrible laugh, knows that He too is art of the Joke. So please stay on high. Do us all Worlds of good.
-John Clute

Trade paperback
$14.95