With the Disch obit today, a couple hours’ work upon my arrival home from a July 4th trip, I’ve tried posting the entire thing on its own page, with its own URL, rather than only on the homepage, to see if this attracts any kind of permanent notice. In particular, Google, I’ve noticed, compiles new content when posted on new pages, but not new content merely posted on a site’s homepage. I’m curious now to see if Google compiles my Disch obit, where they didn’t compile my Budrys obit…
Disch was one of my favorite authors, in the sense that he was on my ‘A list’ — one of those dozen or so authors whose new books would cause me to replan my schedule and set aside everything else to read their new books. I kept looking forward to The Pressure of Time, one of those great heralded but never completed novels, and though I’ve not reread them in years, I remember the impact that stories like “The Asian Shore” and “Casablanca” and “Understanding Human Behavior” made on me. And On Wings of Song, of the novels…
