David Langford
See also: William Robert Loosley
Fiction
Covering Notes (as by David Frogland)
Focus, Jul 1988
Grot the Barbarian
Matrix, Aug 1977
The Robots of Environment (drabble)
Focus, Aug 1990
The Thing from Inner Space
Matrix, May 1976
Articles
1984 Books of the Year
Vector, Apr 1985
4004 and All That
Matrix, Feb 1980
Albion Writ: The Final Drips (GoH Speech, Novacon 14, 1984)
Vector, Oct 1985
And You Thought I Was Fussy ... (Rejection Slip)
Focus, Apr 1988
Bob Shaw 1931-1996: Wreath of Stars
Vector, Aug 1996
Books & Writers
with Chris Hughes
& Malcolm Edwards
& Alan Dorey
Matrix, Aug 1984
Books of the Year
Vector, Mar 1999
Books of the Year - 2001
Vector, Mar 2002
Books of the Year - 2002
Vector, Mar 2003
Competition #48 Results
Matrix, Dec 1983
Competition #50
Matrix, Dec 1983
Competition: Notes on 'Puzzle for Xenologists'
Matrix, Jun 1980
Competition: Puzzle for Xenologists
Matrix, Apr 1980
Copyrights and Wrongs (Column 100, 8000 Plus 10, July 1987)
Focus, Nov 1999
Critical Mass (Column 85, PCW Plus 118, July 1996)
Focus, Nov 1999
Crystal Balls 2005
Matrix, Jan 2005
A Day in the Life!
Matrix, Aug 1982
Decadence in Birmingham
Matrix, Dec 1978
Digging Up the Future
Vector, Dec 1980
Foodies of the Gods
Vector, Dec 1993
Fun With Senseless Violence
Vector, Dec 1992
Genocide for Fun and Profit
Vector, Oct 1979
Highballs!
Vector, Oct 1989
Koancon - 22nd-24th August, Warwick University
Matrix, Dec 1986
Maps of Minnesota: Stalking John Sladek
Vector, Sep 2001
The Michelin Guide to SF
Vector, Oct 1984
My Secret Life with David & Charles
Focus, Aut 1979
Focus, Sum 2017
Notes from Fantasyland
Focus, Sep 1996
Obituaries (A. Bertram Chandler; Charles G. Finney)
Matrix, Aug 1984
A Quick Trip Down Memory Lane...
Vector, Win 2019
Round The Clubs (Reading SF Group)
Matrix, Feb 1979
Second Thoughts
Focus, Aut 1984
SF For the People?
Vector, Aug 1981
The Siamese Twinge: a dialogue on collaboration
with Kevin Smith
Focus, Aut 1980
Untrue Names
Focus, Sum 2021
Wisdom of the Ancients
Focus, Jul 1988
Focus, Sum 2018
Wu Li = Nonsense?
Vector, Oct 1980
Columns
Competition
Matrix, Aug 1980
Competition Corner
Matrix, Jun 1984
Competition M37
Matrix, Dec 1981
Competition M37/M40
Matrix, Feb 1982
Competition M40/M41
Matrix, Jun 1982
Matrix, Apr 1982
Competition M41/M43
Matrix, Aug 1982
Competition M43/M46
Matrix, Spr 1983
Competition M53, M54
Matrix, Aug 1984
Competition M54, M55
Matrix, Oct 1984
Competition News
Matrix, Sep 1983
Competitions
Matrix, Aug 1981
Competitions M31/M32
Matrix, Oct 1980
Competitions M32/M33
Matrix, Dec 1980
Competitions M33/M34
Matrix, Feb 1981
Competitions M34/M35
Matrix, Apr 1981
Competitions M34/M35/M36
Matrix, Jun 1981
Competitions M46/M48
Matrix, Sum 1983
Interviewed
Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two
Vector, Oct 1988
by "Gavin Ralf-Dodd"
Interviews
- John Sladek
Vector, Feb 1983
Letters
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1990
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1988
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1986
Focus, May 2000
Matrix, Oct 1984
Matrix, Jun 1982
Matrix, Feb 1982
Matrix, Jun 1981
Matrix, Feb 1981
Matrix, Dec 1980
Matrix, Jun 1979
Matrix, Apr 1979
Matrix, Oct 1978
Matrix, Aug 1978
Matrix, Feb 1978
Matrix, Apr 1977
Matrix, Mar 1976
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1984
Focus, Feb 1985
Vector, Mar 1976
Vector, Dec 1975
collections
Vector, Jul 2004
Greener/Bayley/Cosmos/Wildside/Langford
Vector, Jul 2002
J. J. Connington
Matrix, Jun 1990
layout/Shaw/plugs
Vector, Mar 1977
URL typos
Vector, Sep 2004
Book Reviews
Alien Accounts
- John Sladek
Vector, Dec 1982
The Arabian Nightmare
- Robert Irwin
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1985
The Black Cloud
- Fred Hoyle
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1980
Black Holes
- John G. Taylor
Vector, Apr 1980
The Black Star
- Lin Carter
Focus, Win 2020
The Book of Time
- Colin Wilson
& John Grant
Vector, Jun 1980
Calde of the Long Sun
- Gene Wolfe
Vector, Jul 1995
The Chaos Weapon
- Colin Kapp
Vector, Oct 1979
The Cosmic Blueprint
- Paul Davies
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1989
The Cross of Fire
- Barry N. Malzberg
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1982
Down the Badger Hole; R. Lionel Fanthorpe: The Badger Years (Edited)
- Debbie Cross
Focus, Sum 2019
- Debbie Cross
Focus, Win 2020
Exodus from the Long Sun
- Gene Wolfe
Vector, Sep 1997
Extraterrestrial Encounter
- Chris Boyce
Vector, Oct 1979
False Dawn
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1983
Fanzines in Theory and in Practice: Collected Articles 1976-82
- D. West
Matrix, Dec 1983
Fly By Night
- Jenny Jones
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1991
Friday
- Robert A. Heinlein
Vector, Oct 1982
Ghastly Beyond Belief: The SF and Fantasy Book of Quotations (Edited)
- Neil Gaiman
& Kim Newman
Focus, Sum 2019
- Neil Gaiman
& Kim Newman
Focus, Win 2020
Green Eyes
- Lucius Shepard
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1985
Gun in Cheek (Edited)
- Bill Pronzini
Focus, Sum 2019
- Bill Pronzini
Focus, Win 2020
The Home Computer Handbook
- Frank Herbert
& M. Bernard
Vector, Jun 1982
Hot Rain
- Harold N. Portnoy
Paperback Parlour, Oct 1979
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published
- Howard Mittelmark
& Sandra Newman
Focus, Win 2020
In Green's Jungles
- Gene Wolfe
Vector, Jul 2000
The Integrated Man
- Michael Berlyn
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1981
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- Michael Swanwick
Vector, Apr 1994
Karma
- Arsen Darnay
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1980
Lake of the Long Sun
- Gene Wolfe
Vector, Feb 1994
Life and Time
- Isaac Asimov
Vector, Apr 1980
Masters of Inworld
- C. C. Burette
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1985
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
- Anne McCaffrey
Vector, Jun 1984
Mysticism and the New Physics
- Michael Talbot
Vector, Jun 1981
Night Lamp
- Jack Vance
Vector, May 1997
Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stuff
- Howard Waldrop
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1992
Nightside the Long Sun
- Gene Wolfe
Vector, Feb 1994
Pegasus Descending: A Book of the Best Bad Verse (X. J. Kennedy+Keith Waldrop) (Edited)
- James Camp
Focus, Win 2020
Physics as Metaphor
- Roger Jones
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1983
Psychohistorical Crisis
- Donald Kingsbury
Vector, Jan 2002
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
- Isaac Asimov
Vector, Oct 1979
Roderick at Random
- John Sladek
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1983
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
- Martin Gardner
Paperback Inferno, Dec 1983
The Shadow of the Torturer
- Gene Wolfe
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1981
Sight of Proteus
- Charles Sheffield
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1981
The Silicon Chip Book
- Peter Marsh
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1981
Son of Gun in Cheek (Edited)
- Bill Pronzini
Focus, Sum 2019
- Bill Pronzini
Focus, Win 2020
The Songs of Summer
- Robert Silverberg
Vector Review
Supplement, Feb 1980
Stardance
- Spider Robinson
& Jeanne Robinson
Paperback Parlour, Aug 1979
Strange Toys
- Patricia Geary
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1990
Study War No More (Edited)
- Joe Haldeman
Paperback Parlour, Oct 1979
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (Edited)
- D. B. Wyndham Lewis
& Charles Lee
Focus, Sum 2019
- D. B. Wyndham Lewis
& Charles Lee
Focus, Win 2020
The Sun Shines Bright
- Isaac Asimov
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1983
Swords and Ice Magic
- Fritz Leiber
Paperback Parlour, Oct 1979
The Swords of Lankhmar
- Fritz Leiber
Paperback Parlour, Oct 1979
Syzygy
- Frederik Pohl
Paperback Inferno, Jun 1982
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
- Stanislaw Lem
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1981
They'd Rather Be Right
- Mark Clifton
& Frank Riley
Vector, Dec 1982
The Troglodytes
- "Nal Rafcam"
Focus, Win 2020
Under Heaven's Bridge
- Ian Watson
& Michael Bishop
Vector, Apr 1981
The Unorthodox Engineers
- Colin Kapp
Vector, Dec 1979
Vaneglory
- George Turner
Vector, Feb 1982
Wheels Within Wheels
- F. Paul Wilson
Vector, Apr 1980
The Witches of Karres
- James H. Schmitz
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1989
The Worlds of George O.
- George O. Smith
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1983
Xorandor
- Christine Brooke-Rose
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1987
Books Reviewed
All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions
BSFA Review, Win 2018
by Dan Hartland
Benchmarks Continued (Edited)
with Algis Budrys
& Greg Pickersgill
Vector, Win 2013
by Dan Hartland
Different Kinds of Darkness
Vector, May 2004
by Gary S. Dalkin
The Dumarest Companion
with Rog Peyton
Paperback Inferno, Apr 1985
by Graham Andrews
Earthdoom!
with John Grant
Paperback Inferno, Aug 1987
by Andy Sawyer
Vector, Oct 1987
by David V. Barrett
Facts and Fallacies: A Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions
with Chris Morgan
Vector, Aug 1981
by Joseph Nicholas
Jackie! All the Famous Broadsheets
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1982
by Joseph Nicholas
The Leaky Establishment
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1986
by Andy Sawyer
Vector, Sep 2001
by Mark Greener
Limbo Files
Focus, Sum 2009
by Martin McGrath
The Space Eater
Vector, Oct 1982
by Sue Thomason
The SEX Column and Other Misprints
Vector, Nov 2005
by Chris Hill
The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000 - 3000
with Brian Stableford
Vector, Dec 1985
by Geoff Ryman
The Transatlantic Hearing Aid
Paperback Inferno, Feb 1986
by Andy Sawyer
Up Through an Empty House of Stars
Vector, Jul 2003
by Chris Hill
War in 2080
Paperback Inferno, Oct 1981
by Roy Macinski
War in 2080: The Future of Military Technology
Vector, Jul 1979
by David Wingrove
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