Descending by American author Thomas M. Disch has been fascinating and sometimes baffling readers for the past 50 years. Just for the fun of it, since the tale's unnamed narrator doesn't have a great deal of fun as events turn strange, I'll give him a name - Artie.

2010年2月18日 · “Descent” begins with an unrepentant debtor’s delinquent spree in a department store, and ends in a state of perfect horror. It’s pleasingly precise and surprisingly rich in its details both of setting and character, packing a huge amount of atmosphere and subtlety into just about 4000 words, and the humor is wicked and ominous.

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2024年5月20日 · While ostensibly classified as SF, “Descending” is less conventional science fiction and more existential horror crossed with one of Rudyard Kipling’s machine fables. It’s a real gem of a story. First published in the July 1964 issue of Fantastic, which is on the Archive. It was reprinted in the October 1992 issue of Amazing Stories, found here.

2025年2月11日 · Descending. by Thomas M. Disch. Catsup, mustard, pickle, relish, mayonnaise, two kinds of salad dressing, bacon grease, and a lemon. Oh yes, two trays of ice cubes. In the cupboard it wasn’t much better: jars and boxes of spices, flour, sugar, salt—and a box of raisins! An empty box of raisins. Not even any coffee. Not even tea, which he hated.

2021年3月3日 · I don't think this has been posted here already, but this short story is basically a long backrooms-induced nightmare fuel. The story is hard to find online (or in print) anymore, but here's a working link: http://web.archive.org/web/20070213072942/www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/disch/disch1.html.

Because of a polio epidemic in 1946, his mother Helen home-schooled him for a year. As a result, he skipped from kindergarten to second grade. Disch's first formal education was at Catholic schools, as evidenced in some of his works which contain …

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2006年9月28日 · A less sophisticated writer than Disch would have created a clever and inconsequential story from the central idea of "Descending": a man gets on an escalator that never ends. From this idea, Disch builds a story that can be seen as an allegory, as a study of psychological breakdown, as a social critique.

2006年4月24日 · Title: Descending Title Record # 43910 Author: Thomas M. Disch Date: 1964-07-00 Type: SHORTFICTION Length: short story Language: English User Rating: 7.60 (5 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE Current Tags: science fiction (1) Add Tags