David Langford

The Limbo Files

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1985, when all the world was young and dot-matrix printers stalked the primeval swamps of computing, David Langford won his Hugo Award and began a long-running column for 8000 Plus magazine (later PCW Plus). This notoriously became the page readers turned to first. The magazine was devoted to the Amstrad PCW, a bestselling home computer that pioneered affordable word processing in Britain. Langford's popular column used this official subject as a launch pad for witty coverage of life, the universe and everything. Freelancing writing and how to survive it; science fiction (especially that); secrets of editors, manuscripts, indexes, submission letters and padding; serious and spoof advice columns; parodies of Adventure games, legal proceedings, noir fiction and more; causes, scams and literary horror stories; timeless satire on shabby practice in the computer industry; awful "Thog's Masterclass" lines from SF . . . Langford shows all the wit and skill that brought him 28 Hugo Awards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosmos Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780809573240
• ISBN-10: 0809573245
• Artikelnr.: 26240234

Autorenporträt

has been publishing and writing about SF since 1975. Novels include The Space Eater and The Leaky Establishment; there are many collections of magazine reviews and criticism. Langford's 29 Hugo awards span several categories: Fanzine and Semiprozine for the newsletter Ansible (1979-current), Short Story for "Different Kinds of Darkness" (2000) and Related Work for the online Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (with John Clute and others). He has always had hearing problems.