All consider various sorts of revenge by the plant kingdom on its primary oppressors, human beings. The Genocides, written in 1965, is part of a very specialized dystopian sub-genre which might be called ‘Apocalyptic Greenery.’ This collection of anti-biophilia stretches at least from Greener Than You Think (1947), to The Day 0f the Triffids (1951), to Death of Grass (1982).

Disch committed suicide by gunshot on July 4, 2008.

Disch's best known work, though, is The Brave Little Toaster, a reworking of the Brothers Grimm's 'Town Musicians of Bremen' featuring wornout domestic appliances - what was written as a satire on sentimentality became a successful children's animated musical. In recent years, Disch had turned to ironically moralized horror novels like The Businessman, The MD, The Priest and The Sub in which the nightmare of American suburbia is satirized through the terrible things that happen when the magical gives people the chance to do what they really really want. His sf novels include Camp Concentration, with its colony of prisoners mutated into super-intelligence by the bacteria that will in due course kill them horribly, and On Wings of Song, in which many of the brightest and best have left their bodies for what may be genuine, or entirely illusory, astral flight and his hero has to survive until his lover comes back to him both are stunningly original books and both are among sf's more accomplishedly bitter-sweet works. Disch brought to the sf of the New Wave a camp sensibility and a sardonicism that too much sf had lacked.

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