Help recognising an SF novel

[altariel]

On behalf of a friend of a friend...

A friend of mine is attempting to find a SF novel for a friend... but the friend can't recall the title or the author... all he can remember about the book are a few sketchy details:

A SF novel...
in which people can leave their bodies, but they are in danger of being caught by rotating objects like fans and thus trapped in this state forever... and this activity is frowned upon by those who can't so they set out to intentionally trap those who can... not a hope in hell I think
There was a love story involved, and a rebel group who practised this activity... and the protagonist wasn't exactly a rebel but was in love with a girl who was... and IIRC basically opted... to remain in the OOB state at the end of the book. The fear of those who fought against them was based on the thought that these out of bodies might be anywhere and no one would know.

Anyone any idea?

ETA: kerravonsen has identified it as On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch. Amazing. Thank you kerravonsen!

Comments

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

No idea, but I'd quite like to know it too!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

kerravonsen has identified it as On Wings of Song, by Thomas M. Disch.

[infinitlight.livejournal.com]

I don't know it, but if no-one here knows, it might be worth trying whatwasthatbook.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, great idea for a comm - thank you.

And kerravonsen has identified it as On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch.

[infinitlight.livejournal.com]

Glad you found it! It sounds interesting, I will look out for it myself. I've never read any Disch (and until Wikipedia-ing just now had no idea he wrote The Brave Little Toaster).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I had no idea either. The only book of his I've read is the novelisation of The Prisoner. Camp Concentration is meant to be excellent.

[kerravonsen]

It rings a bell... I think I read it as a teenager... author was Thomas M. Disch or Phillip K. Dick, though I think it wasn't wierd enough for Dick... ah. Wikipedia comes through: it is On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Amazing. Thank you!

[kerravonsen]

I think I find it easier to remember things I knew when I was young, than stuff I learned later...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I'm still quite good at remembering where I read something, even if I can't remember the actual information. Which at least makes it straightforward to look it up.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

And now I have a song by that name running through my head, as sung in a lovely tenor by a male music class teacher in NZ. It has lines such as, "A garden I know of roses / By moonlight silverd o'er." Pretty ditty!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)