Description: Named one of science fictions 100 best books by noted genre editor David Pringle, Thomas M. Dischs On Wings of Song is at once allegory, social satire, political fable, and brilliantly written science fiction of the ultimate out-of-body experience. In Dischs dazzlingly imagined future America, Daniel Weinraub dreams of escaping the repressive midwest of the mid-twenty-first century through an electronic device with which the user takes flight into cyberspace when activated with a quasi-musical code called The Symphonette. Daniels adventures take him from Iowas God-fearing police state and its correctional labor camps for the sinful to Manhattans mean streets and cyberspatial flight paths. This brilliant novel should appeal to the readers of mainstream novels as well as science fiction ... as entertainment and art.Publishers Weekly A superb book.Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction A robust writer ... a virutosoThe New York Times Book Review Stunningly original.Harlan Ellison A free-falling talentfull of startling invention, humor, distancing surmise and many, many immediate pleasures.Kirkus Reviews

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