''Under Compulsion'' is a collection of

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

stories by

Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nomination ...

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Rupert Hart-Davis Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis (28 August 1907 – 8 December 1999) was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a biographer, he is remembered for his ''Hugh Walpole'' (1952), as an editor, f ...

in 1968 in the UK. It was subsequently published in the US in 1970 by Doubleday under the title ''Fun with Your New Head''. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines ''Escapade'', ''

Fantasy and Science Fiction ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher a ...

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Fantastic The fantastic (french: le fantastique) is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces. Bulgarian-French structuralist literary critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, characte ...

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Amazing Stories ''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances i ...

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* "The Roaches" * "Come to Venus Melancholy" * "Linda and Daniel and Spike" * "Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit" * "Descending" * "Nada" * "Now Is Forever" * "The Contest" * "The Empty Room" * "The Squirrel Cage" * "The Number You Have Reached" * "1-A" * "Fun with Your New Head" * "The City of Penetrating Light" * "Moondust, the Smell of Hay, and Dialectical Materialism" * "Thesis on Social Forms and Social Controls in the U.S.A." * "Casablanca"

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* *{{cite book , last=Tuck , first=Donald H. , author-link=Donald H. Tuck , title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy , location=Chicago , publisher=Advent , pages=145 , year=1974 , isbn=0-911682-20-1 1968 short story collections Short story collections by Thomas M. Disch Rupert Hart-Davis books

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