David Langford is an 20-time winner of science fiction's prestigious Hugo Award, for his popular SF newsletter Ansible, for other humorous and critical commentary about SF, and for his short fiction "Different Kinds of Darkness" (F&SF Jan 2000), the 2001 Hugo winner as Best Short Story. With Peter Nicholls and Brian Stableford he co-wrote The Science in Science Fiction (1982), which was voted a European SF Award, and as a contributing editor he wrote 80,000 words of the multiple award-winning Clute/Grant Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). Langford has published several full-length novels and nonfiction books, hundreds of reviews and magazine columns (notably for SFX and Interzone), and scores of short SF, fantasy and horror stories -- many selected for Year's Best anthologies.

Novels and non-fact works include An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871 (1979), which takes a poke at UFOlogy; The Space Eater (1982), a hard science fiction adventure; The Leaky Establishment (1984), black farce about the nuclear industry, and Earthdoom! (1987), a parodic disaster novel written with John Grant. The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two (1988) is a collection of sf/fantasy parodies; The Silence of the Langford (1996) assembles many of his SF essays, speeches and humorous articles, and was shortlisted for a Hugo as Best Nonfiction.

Born in South Wales and with a physics degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, David Langford worked for five years as a weapons physicist at Britain's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment before moving on to become a freelance writer, critic and computer consultant. He is married and lives in Reading, England, with an immoderate number of books, trophies, and computers.

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Guts (with John Grant)
The Complete Critical Assembly
Up through an Empty House of Stars
He Do the Time Police in Different Voices