Thomas M. Disch has been called by one critic "very likely the finest intellect in science fiction today." He is more than that, however. He is one of the finest writers of fiction today. Disch is a writer who constantly challenges the ultimately limitin...

Polymath poet Tom Disch is also one of the most talented of the "New Wave" of science-fiction writers who emerged in Great Britain (where Disch lived for a time and where he published much of his early fiction and all of his early poetry) in the 1960s. (...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Isiah Thomas and the red-hot Detroit Pistons will open the NBA Finals tonight (Tuesday) at the Fabulous Forum against the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. "This is a dream come true," Thomas, the Pistons' backcourt general, said. "We know we...

The horror stories are convincing. There is the set of requirements for buying an ashtray, which Vice President Gore has so dramatically illustrated. And I, like any other civil servant, can tell dozens of others. I purchased a senior-citizen airline ticket for an official...