Thomas M. Disch
Sign in to saveAlso known as Cassandra Knye, Leonie Hargrave, Thom Demijohn, Victor Hastings, Tom Disch, Thomas Disch
American science fiction author and poet (1940–2008)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 February 1940
- Died
- 4 July 2008
- Works
- 170
Top works
- The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
- New Dimensions 1 Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories
- The Vintage Book of Amnesia
- Again, Dangerous Visions
- I Shudder at Your Touch
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 44
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,174x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,779x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 59,759x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,030x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,312x
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Quotes
- “People in intolerable circumstances will pray to anything. Truly, there are no atheists in foxholes: the men there pray to the bombs that they may land somewhere else.”
- “Boz, who had no patience with Science, always confused north and south.”
- “All the things that happen and seem so important at the time, and yet you forget them, one after another.”
- “Jobs are like going to church: it’s nice once or twice a year to sing along and eat something and all that, but unless you really believe there’s something holy going on, it gets to be a drag going in every single week.”
- “The way we work, the way we talk, the way we watch television or walk down the street, even the way we fuck, or maybe that especially—each of those is part of the problem of identity. We can’t do any of those things authentically until we find out who we really are and be that person, inside and out, instead of the person other people want us to be. Usually those other people, if they want us to be something we aren’t, are using us as a laboratory for working out their own identity problems.”
- “Marvin Kolodny responded with a boyish grin and offered his hand. An American flag has been tattooed on his right forearm. On a scroll circling the flagpole was the following inscription:”
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