Awards & Winners

Thomas M. Disch

Date of Birth 02-February-1940
Place of Birth Des Moines
(Polk County, United States of America, Iowa, Warren County, Area code 515)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Tom Disch, Dobbin Thorpe, Leonie Hargrave, Thom Demijohn, Thomas Disch, Thomas Michael Disch
Profession Novelist, Writer, Poet, Author
Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, The Genocides, Camp Concentration, 334 and On Wings of Song are major contributions to the New Wave science fiction movement. In 1996, his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. Among his other nonfiction work, he wrote theatre and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation, and other periodicals. He also published several volumes of poetry as Tom Disch. Following an extended period of depression following the death in 2005 of his life-partner, Charles Naylor, Disch stopped writing almost entirely, except for poetry – although he did produce two novellas. Disch committed suicide by gunshot on July 4 2008 in his apartment in Manhattan, New York City. His last book, The Word of God, which was written shortly before Naylor died, had just been published a few days before Disch's death.

Awards by Thomas M. Disch

Check all the awards nominated and won by Thomas M. Disch.

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Shadow

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft

1999


Hugo Award for Best Related Work
Honored for : The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Hugo Award for Best Related Work The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism The Castle of Indolence: Poetry and its Pretenders

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or A Shameless Lie

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Happy Turnip

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story Voices of the Kill

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Voices of the Kill

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel The Businessman: A Tale of Terror

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette Understanding Human Behavior
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Grown-Up

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella The Brave Little Toaster

1980


John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Honored for : On Wings of Song

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel On Wings of Song
Nebula Award for Best Novella The Brave Little Toaster
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel On Wings of Song
National Book Award for Science Fiction (Hardcover) On Wings of Song

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel On Wings of Song
Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Man Who Had No Idea

1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel 334

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story The Asian Shore

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novelette The Asian Shore

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel The Genocides
Nebula Award for Best Novelette 102 H-Bombs
Nebula Award for Best Short Story Come to Venus Melancholy