num_pages: 359
description: Named one of science fiction's 100 best books by noted genre editor David Pringle, Thomas M. Disch's 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 Disch's 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." Daniel's adventures take him from Iowa's God-fearing police state and its "correctional" labor camps for the sinful to Manhattan's mean streets and "cyberspatial flight paths."
language: English
title: On Wings of Song
titlecomplete: On Wings of Song
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, LGBT, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 1002
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel), awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Balrog Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Science Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: St Martins Press