On Wings Of Song

Named one of science fiction's 100 best books by noted genre editor David Pringle, Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song is at once allegory, social satire, political fable, and brilliantly written science fiction of the ultimate out-of-body experience. In Disch's dazzlingly imagined future America, Daniel Weinraub dreams of escaping the repressive midwest of the mid-twenty-first century through an electronic device with which the user takes flight into cyberspace when activated with a quasi-musical code called The Symphonette. Daniel's adventures take him from Iowa's God-fearing police state and its correctional labor camps for the sinful to Manhattan's mean streets and cyberspatial flight paths. This brilliant novel should appeal to the readers of mainstream novels as well as science fiction ... as entertainment and art., Publishers Weekly A superb book., Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction A robust writer ... a virutoso, The New York Times Book Review Stunningly original., Harlan Ellison A free-falling talent, full of startling invention, humor, distancing surmise and many, many immediate pleasures., Kirkus Reviews