“I find 334 more strange and beautiful now than when it originally appeared…. The tension evident within Tom Disch between delight in destruction (including self-destruction) and a weird tenderness toward the weak and the foolish (including himself), gave great power and poignance to his best work in fiction, which include 334, The Businessman, and On Wings of Song, with its hapless narrator, earthbound while others can fly. In those works nothing is resolved, but nothing is reduced to black and white; hilarity is tempered with poignance and pity; people are often foolish and self-serving (Disch has a knack for characters who can fool themselves for their own benefit) but they grow too large to dismiss.”—John Crowley, Boston Review“Disch’s masterpiece…. A social novel of rare power and beauty…. Disch has written a book about the forgotten people, and in doing so he has produced a fine, subtle and moving novel.”—David Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels“Frighteningly fascinating”—The Birmingham Evening Mail“Disch’s special power is in his handling of people and of taboos… 334 is Mr. Disch’s important big novel.”—Theodore Sturgeon, The New York Times Book Review“One of the best SF novels ever…. Disch is a phenomenal writer…. His prose has a hard glittering surface that covers immense depths of perception and of imagery.”— D. G. Hartwell, Crawdaddy“If contemporary American letters has been lucky enough to find an answer to Borges and Garcia Márquez, to Carlos Fuentes and Günter Grass, it is from Thomas M. Disch. The danger in commenting on Disch is that one loses all sense of reserve; sensible praise is too weak; he commands superlatives. Today no intelligent person dares call him/herself well-read without a thorough grounding in Disch’s startlingly original work.”—Harlan Ellison“He is a virtuoso.”—The New York Times Book Review “He tosses off bits of verbal virtuosity the way a fine jazz player tosses off musical phrases.”—The Chicago Tribune“Clever, imaginative, and sly…. Myth, mystery, the ordinary are his materials.”—Publishers Weekly“Disch may be the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer… diversely gifted… entirely original… joyously versatile… a unique talent.”—Walter Clemons, Newsweek“Because of his intellectual audacity, the chillingly distanced mannerism of his narrative art, the austerity of the pleasures he affords, and the fine cruelty of his wit, Disch was perhaps the most respected, least trusted, most envied and least read of all modern sf writers of the first rank.”—John Clute, Science Fiction Encyclopedia“Thomas Disch has been writing wonderful tales of imagination for years now—stories that sometimes amuse, sometimes sting, sometimes horrify, and sometimes manage to do all three at the same time.”—Stephen King