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David Langford
ISBN 978-1-916508-28-6
David Langford scrapes the bottom of the literary barrel with this large selection of essays written for sf, fantasy and horror reference works published long ago from 1996 to 2007. These do not include the Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, both freely available online.
Writers discussed, some at length, include: Lloyd Alexander, Kingsley Amis, David Arscott & David J. Marl, Greg Bear, Max Beerbohm, Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Roald Dahl, Robertson Davies, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Michael Frayn, John Gordon, Barbara Hambly, Robert Holdstock, Tom Holt, M.R. James, Gerald Kersh, Rudyard Kipling, C.S. Lewis, William Mayne, Anne McCaffrey, Dan McGirt, Hope Mirrlees, Michael Moorcock, Pat O'Shea, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Priest, Michael Scott Rohan, Fred Saberhagen, Saki, Allan Scott, Brian Stableford, Paula Volsky, Dennis Wheatley, Charles Williams, and Colin Wilson.
Also included as bonus items are two Langford reader’s reports for Gollancz on early Terry Pratchett Discworld novels.
First released as an Ansible Editions ebook for the TAFF site on 1 October 2024. Cover cartoon by D. West from 1978. 74,000 words.
