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On Wings of Song Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 359 pages
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Title:On Wings of Song
Author:Thomas M. Disch
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 359 pages
Published:December 1st 1988 by Carroll & Graf Publishers (first published June 1979)
Categories:Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy

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The human society is in the terrible decline and On Wings of Song is a kind of cultural dystopia… Thomas M. Disch writes with so many realistic details that it starts appearing that the dystopia is now…
“They say we’re very conformist, don’t they?”
“Yes, that’s certainly one thing they say.”
“So why did you want to come here? I mean, aside from us.”
“Why? I want a nice, comfortable, safe, prosperous life, and if conformity’s the price I’ve got to pay, so be it. Wherever you are, you know, you’re conforming to something.”

In the evil empire, one must abide by the laws of evil… In the paradise, one must abide by the rules of God…
And recounting his story Thomas M. Disch is full of weird irony…
It looks like in the part of the States the flower children have won in their psychedelic revolution so the protagonist’s grand aspiration is to learn to fly – that is, to fly in the hippie’s sense of the word. In order to fly one must skillfully sing a song so the hero starts learning music and singing… But whatever he does he can’t fly so he is in despair…
Thirty is a bad birthday when you’ve got nothing to show for it. By then the old excuses are wearing pretty thin. A failure at thirty is likely to be a failure the rest of his life, and he knows it. But the worst of it isn’t the embarrassment, which may even do you some good in small dosages; the worst of it is the way it works its way into the cells of your body, like asbestos. You live in the constant stink of your own fear, waiting for the next major catastrophe: pyorrhea, an eviction notice, whatever.

Eventually the hero succeeds at singing properly but kitsch and pop culture hold sway…
So when the music’s over turn out the lights…

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Original Title: On Wings of Song
ISBN: 0881844438 (ISBN13: 9780881844436)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1980), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1980), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (1979), John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1980) Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2004), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Science Fiction (Hardcover) (1980)

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Ratings: 3.78 From 929 Users | 51 Reviews

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wonderful. shelved in sci-fi, but is among the best of all american novels published in the 70s. RIP, Tom Disch

Weird, good. Disch themes in common with Camp Concentration: unjust imprisonment, the police state, drugs, dandies. Despite some inherent corniness -- like how singing beautifully turns people into a magical flying fairies -- I find myself thinking about this book pretty often.

Honestly surprised to find that Bloom included this work in his Western Canon. It's structurally underwhelming, which is my primary gripe. It's wholly unsurprising at every turn. It is, however, extraordinarily prescient making it a worthwhile read, if only to marvel at Disch's remarkable ability to project a future and hit so much of it on the head. If you like Disch's other works, read it. If you're new to Disch, try Camp Concentration, or 334.

The human society is in the terrible decline and On Wings of Song is a kind of cultural dystopia Thomas M. Disch writes with so many realistic details that it starts appearing that the dystopia is nowThey say were very conformist, dont they?Yes, thats certainly one thing they say.So why did you want to come here? I mean, aside from us.Why? I want a nice, comfortable, safe, prosperous life, and if conformitys the price Ive got to pay, so be it. Wherever you are, you know, youre conforming to

My relationship with the stories of Thomas M. Disch have been varied, but always interesting. From the strange work of hope that was The Brave Little Toaster (1980) to the incredibly thought provoking Camp Concentration (1968) and the creepy The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (1984).Disch was really great at looking at the world through a new lens, although ON Wings of Song is clearly closer to the jaded world of Camp Concentration than the hopeful one of The Brave Little Toaster.The Novel

This is my first dish of Disch, and while I wasn't completely blown away storywise, I enjoyed this novel a lot, mainly on the strength of the writing. Disch is an impressive prose stylistparticularly for working in a genre that is not known for a preponderance of great prose stylistsso I think given different subject matter, I might find some of his other writings more to my taste. Light on the sci-fi, On Wings of Song is rather more of a "path of the artist" tale like The Song of the Lark by

another of those rare finds in literature that can be read and re-read throughout a lifetime

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