Whether it was based on content or something else, viewers and critics alike at the time were unimpressed. Release after release, almost all of their films weren't making the cut. The characters would return in a series of home video releases including The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997) and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998).During much of the 1980s, Disney was not performing well financially or critically. His other works include volumes of poetry and theater and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation and other leading publications.Įxploring the secret lives of appliances, the 1987 movie The Brave Little Toaster features the voices of John Lovitz, Thurl Ravenscroft, Phil Hartman, Timoth Stack, animator Randy Cook and the late Joe Ranft, who co-wrote the screenplay. In 1999, he won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of. In the 1980s, he made a switch to horror fiction with The Businessman, The M.D., The Priest and The Sub.
Dick, Harlan Ellison, Broian Aldiss and Frank Herbert, among others. He soon became known as part of the New Wave of sci-fi writers that included Philip K. His last book, The Word of God, will be published posthumously by Tachyon Publications this summer.ĭisch was born in Des Moines, Iowa and began publishing in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s.
He also wrote the first novel based on the cult-favorite 1960s sci-fi television series The Prisoner. In addition to his foray into kid lit, Disch leaves behind a body of sci-fi work that includes the critically acclaimed novels The Genocides (1965), Camp Concentration (1968) and 334 (1972). Internet reports say the Hugo Award-winning scribe committed suicide at his New York apartment on July 4. Science-fiction fans are mourning the passing of author Thomas M Disch, whose children’s book The Brave Little Toaster was made into a popular animated series by Disney.
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