In all the excitement of slagging Vintage (whom I had previously appreciated for reissuing Fawn M. Brodie's watershed 1945 biography of Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History), I forgot that there was a beautiful paragraph or two from Disch's 334 that I wanted to share:
I just finished reading Thomas M. Disch's fine, fine novel 334, in the recent attractive Vintage trade paperback reissue edition. It wasn't until I was almost done, however, that I bothered to read the back cover copy in any detail. Here is how the blurb, written
The visionary whose stories foretold the Sony Walkman, who imagined virtual reality at a time when there were 400 television sets in the entire state of California, does not own a computer. He does not like the screens. "Computers are for people who make mistakes," he says. "
It's miraculous, though not at all surprising, how a little good press can change one's outlook on one's career. I'd been in a little email exchange with a writer named Nick Gevers who lives in South Africa. Nick has a pretty esoteric
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