Editing David Langford

{{Short description|British writer, editor and critic}}
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'''David Rowland Langford''' (born 10 April 1953)<ref name="sf-encyclopedia1">{{cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/langford_david |title=Authors : Langford, David : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia |website=Sf-encyclopedia.com |date=2015-08-28 |access-date=2015-11-30}}</ref> is a British author, editor, and [[Literary criticism|critic]], largely active within the [[science fiction]] field. He publishes the [[science-fiction fanzine]] and [[newsletter]] ''Ansible'' and holds the all-time record for most [[Hugo Award|Hugo Awards]], with a total of 29 wins.<ref name=SFADB-Tallies/>

==Personal background==
David Langford was born and grew up in [[Newport, Wales]], before studying for a degree in [[Physics]] at [[Brasenose College, Oxford]],<ref name="infinityplus.co.uk">{{Cite web |url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/misc/dl.htm |title=David Langford - an infinity plus profile |access-date=2017-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728085821/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/misc/dl.htm |archive-date=2017-07-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> where he first became involved in [[science fiction fandom]]. Langford is married to Hazel and is the older brother of the musician and artist [[Jon Langford]].

His first job was as a weapons [[physicist]] at the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]] at [[Aldermaston]], [[Berkshire]] from 1975 to 1980.<ref name="infinityplus.co.uk"/> In 1985 he set up a "tiny and informally run software company" with science fiction writer [[Christopher Priest (novelist)|Christopher Priest]], called Ansible Information after Langford's news-sheet<!--named for an instantaneous communication device in Ursula Le Guin's science fiction-->. The company has ceased trading.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ai.ansible.uk/ |title=Home |website=ai.ansible.uk}}</ref>

Langford has worn a [[hearing aid]] since childhood,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Sound (If Any) of Music |url=https://ansible.uk/writing/music.html |website=ansible.uk |access-date=9 March 2024}}</ref> and increasing hearing difficulties have reduced Langford's participation in some fan activities. His own jocular attitude towards the matter led to a 2003 [[chapbook]] anthology of his work being titled ''Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/LangfordDeafMan.htm |title=Let's Hear It For the Deaf Man |publisher=Nesfa.org |date=2003-06-25 |access-date=2015-11-30 |archive-date=10 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710191655/http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/LangfordDeafMan.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Literary career==
===Fiction===
As a writer of fiction, Langford is noted for his [[parody|parodies]]. A collection of short stories, parodying various [[science fiction]], [[fantasy fiction]] and [[Detective fiction|detective story]] writers, has been published as ''[[He Do the Time Police in Different Voices]]'' (2003), incorporating the earlier and much shorter 1988 parody collection ''The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two''.<ref name="sf-encyclopedia1" /> Two novels, parodying [[Disaster film|disaster novels]] and [[horror fiction|horror]], respectively, are ''Earthdoom!''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ansible.uk/books/edoom.html|title = Earthdoom by David Langford and John Grant}}</ref> and ''Guts'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ansible.uk/books/guts.html|title = Guts by David Langford and John Grant}}</ref> both co-written with [[John Grant (author)|John Grant]].

[[File:Dave Langford 2005.JPG|thumb|David Langford at [[Worldcon]] 2005 in [[Glasgow]], with two Hugo Awards]]
His novelette ''An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871'', published in 1979, is an account of a [[unidentified flying object|UFO]] encounter, as experienced by a [[Victorian era|Victorian]]; in its [[framing story]] Langford claims to have found the manuscript in an old desk (the story's narrator, William Robert Loosley, is a genuine ancestor of Langford's wife) and he analyses the story from a modern perspective, highlighting apparent descriptions of [[nuclear physics]] and [[quantum mechanics]] in Loosley's record.<ref name="ns"/> This has led some [[Ufology|UFOlogists]] to believe the story is genuine, including the US author [[Whitley Strieber]], who referred to the 1871 incident in his novel ''Majestic''.<ref name="sf-encyclopedia1"/> Langford wrote the story as a spoof at the suggestion of his publisher<ref name="ns">{{cite book |last1=Langford |first1=David |title=Myths in the Making |date=26 May 1988 |publisher=New Scientist |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CVlXaRItT0C&pg=PA78 |language=en}}</ref> and says that since publication he has always admitted the story to be fictional when asked — but, as he notes, "Journalists usually didn't ask."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Langford |first1=David |title=Will U Kindly F O? |url=https://ansible.uk/sfx/sfx053.html |website=ansible.uk}}</ref>

Langford also had one serious science fiction novel published in 1982, ''The Space Eater''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/spaceeater.htm|title = The Space Eater by David Langford - an infinity plus review}}</ref> The 1984 novel ''[[The Leaky Establishment]]'' satirises the author's experiences at Aldermaston.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/27986|title=Answers from the author of Ansible - Interviews - Publishing and editorial - BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT|website=Bcs.org|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> His 2004 collection ''[[Different Kinds of Darkness]]'' is a compilation of 36 of his shorter, non-parodic science fiction pieces, the title story of which won the [[Hugo Award for Best Short Story]] in 2001.<ref>[http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/essays-reviews/contemporaries-portrayed/david-langford/ Christopher-priest.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201141403/http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/essays-reviews/contemporaries-portrayed/david-langford/ |date=2016-02-01 }}</ref>

====Basilisks====
A number of Langford's stories are set in a [[future]] containing images, colloquially called "basilisks", which [[crash (computing)|crash]] the human mind by triggering thoughts that the mind is physically or logically incapable of thinking.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Westfahl |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Westfahl |title=[[Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia]] |date=2021 |isbn=978-1-4408-6617-3 |location=Santa Barbara, California |pages=232 |language=en |chapter=Dimensions |oclc=1224044572 |quote=David Langford's Blit (1988) features images generated by fractals that drive people insane. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WETPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA232}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-05-22|title=Author Spotlight: David Langford|url=https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-david-langford/|access-date=2021-08-20|website=Lightspeed Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> The first of these stories was "[[BLIT (short story)|BLIT]]" (''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'', 1988); others include "What Happened at Cambridge IV" (''Digital Dreams'', 1990); "comp.basilisk FAQ",<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Langford|first=David|date=1999-12-02|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=402|issue=6761|pages=465|doi=10.1038/44964|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=1999Natur.402..465L|title=Comp.basilisk Faq|doi-access=free}}</ref> and the [[Hugo Award for Best Short Story|Hugo]]-winning<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-07-26|title=2001 Hugo Awards|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2001-hugo-awards/|access-date=2021-08-20|website=The Hugo Awards|language=en-US}}</ref> "Different Kinds of Darkness" (''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]]'', 2000).

The idea has appeared elsewhere; in one of his novels, [[Ken MacLeod]] has characters explicitly mention (and worry about encountering) the "Langford Visual Hack".<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://ansible.uk/writing/t3_002.html|title=What if ... the human brain could be hacked into?|website=Ansible.uk|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> Similar references, also mentioning Langford by name, feature in works by [[Greg Egan]]<ref name="auto"/> and [[Charles Stross]].  The eponymous ''[[Snow Crash]]'' of [[Neal Stephenson]]'s novel is a combination mental/[[computer virus]] capable of infecting the minds of [[Security hacker|hackers]] via their [[visual cortex]]. The idea also appears in ''[[Blindsight (science fiction novel)|Blindsight]]'' by [[Peter Watts (author)|Peter Watts]] where a particular combination of right angles is a harmful image to [[Vampire|vampires]]. The roleplaying game ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' has so-called "Basilisk hacks", sensory or linguistic attacks on cognitive processes. The concept of a "[[:wikt:cognitohazard|cognitohazard]]", largely identical to Langford's basilisks, is sometimes used in the fictional universe of the [[SCP Foundation]].

The image's name comes from the [[basilisk]], a legendary reptile said to have the power to cause death with a single glance.

===Non-fiction and editorial work===
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Langford has won numerous [[Hugo Award]]s<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christopher-priest.co.uk/essays/contemporaries-portrayed/david-langford|title = David Langford – Christopher Priest}}</ref> for his activities as a fan journalist on his free [[science fiction fanzine|newsletter]] ''Ansible'', which he has described as "The SF ''[[Private Eye]]''{{-"}}.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=February 1996|title=The Lid Ripped Off!|url=https://ansible.uk/sfx/sfx009.html|journal=SFX|issue=9}}</ref> The name is taken from [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s [[ansible|science-fictional communication device]]. The newsletter first appeared in August 1979.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D44dBAAAQBAJ&q=David+langford+fandom&pg=PA79 |title = The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction|isbn = 9780199838844|last1 = Latham|first1 = Rob|year = 2014| publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> Fifty issues were published by 1987, when it entered a hiatus. Since resuming publication in October 1991, ''Ansible'' has appeared monthly (with occasional extra issues given "half" numbers, e.g. ''Ansible 53{{frac|1|2}}'') as a two-sided A4 sheet and latterly also online. A digest appeared as the "Ansible Link" column in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'' from issue 62, August 1992, to issue 295, September 2022. The complete archive of ''Ansible'' is available at Langford's personal website. ''Ansible'' issue 450 was published on 2 January 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.ansible.uk/a450.html |title=Ansible 450, January 2012 |publisher=News.ansible.uk |access-date=9 April 2025}}</ref>

''Ansible'' has for many years advertised that paper copies are available for various unlikely items<ref name=spoilers>{{cite web|url=https://news.ansible.uk/spoilers.html|title=Ansible Masthead Spoilers |publisher=News.ansible.co.uk |access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> such as "SAE, Fwai-chi shags or Rhune Books of Deeds".<ref name=A344>{{cite web|url=https://news.ansible.uk/a344.html|title=Ansible 344, March 2016 |publisher=News.ansible.co.uk |access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> In 1996, [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] wrote: "Tell me what I can send in exchange for ''Ansible''. In Oregon we grow many large fir trees; also we have fish."<ref name=A104>{{cite web|url=https://news.ansible.uk/a104.html#02|title=Ansible 104, March 1996|publisher=News.ansible.uk|access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref>

Langford wrote the science fiction and fantasy book review column for ''[[White Dwarf (magazine)|White Dwarf]]'' from 1983 to 1988, continuing in other British [[role-playing game]] magazines until 1991; the columns are collected as ''The Complete Critical Assembly'' (2001). He has also written a regular column for the magazine [[SFX (magazine)|''SFX'']], featuring in every issue from its launch in 1995 to #274 dated July 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ansible.uk/sfx/|title='Langford' SFX Column Index|publisher=Ansible.uk|access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref> A tenth-anniversary collection of these columns appeared in 2005 as ''The SEX Column and other misprints''; this was shortlisted for a 2006 [[Hugo Award for Best Related Work|Hugo Award for Best Related Book]]. Further ''SFX'' columns are collected in ''Starcombing: columns, essays, reviews and more'' (2009), which also includes much other material written since 2000, and ''All Good Things: The Last SFX Visions'' (2017).

David Langford has also written columns for several computer magazines, notably ''[[8000 Plus]]'' (later renamed ''[[PCW Plus]]''), which was devoted to the [[Amstrad PCW]] word processor. This column ran, though not continuously, from the first issue in October 1986 to the last, dated Christmas 1996; it was revived in the small-press magazine ''PCW Today'' from 1997 to 2002, and all the columns are collected as ''The Limbo Files'' (2009). Langford's 1985–1988 "The Disinformation Column" for ''[[Apricot File]]'' was about [[Apricot Computers]] systems; these columns are collected as ''The Apricot Files'' (2007).

A collection of nonfiction and humorous work, ''Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man'', was published in 1992 by [[NESFA Press]].  This was incorporated into a follow-up collection, consisting of 47 nonfiction pieces and three short stories, and published as ''The Silence of the Langford'' in 1996. ''Up Through an Empty House of Stars'' (2003) is a further collection of one hundred reviews and essays.

Much of Langford's early book-length publication was futurological in nature. ''War in 2080: The Future of Military Technology'', published in 1979, and ''The Third Millennium: A History of the World AD 2000-3000'' (1985), jointly written with fellow science fiction author [[Brian Stableford]], are two examples. Both these authors also worked with [[Peter Nicholls (writer)|Peter Nicholls]] on ''[[The Science in Science Fiction]]'' (1982). Within the broader field of popular non-fiction, Langford co-wrote ''Facts and Fallacies: a Book of Definitive Mistakes and Misguided Predictions'' (1984) with Chris Morgan.

Langford assisted in producing the second edition of ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'' (1993) and contributed some 80,000 words of articles to ''[[The Encyclopedia of Fantasy]]'' (1997). He is one of the four chief editors of the third, online edition of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (launched October 2011), and shared this reference work's 2012 [[Hugo Award]] for Best Related Work. He has also edited a book of [[John Sladek]]'s uncollected work, published in 2002 as ''Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek''. Langford's critical introduction to ''Maps'' won a [[BSFA Award]] for nonfiction. With [[Christopher Priest (novelist)|Christopher Priest]], Langford also set up Ansible E-ditions (now [[Ansible Editions]]) which publishes other [[Print on demand|print-on-demand]] collections of short stories by Sladek and [[David I. Masson]]; essays and review columns by [[Brian Aldiss]], [[Algis Budrys]], [[Peter Nicholls (writer)|Peter Nicholls]] and again Sladek; and ebooks of historical interest to [[science fiction fandom]], downloadable at no charge from the [[Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund]] site.<ref name=AE>{{cite web|url=https://ae.ansible.uk|title=Ansible Editions|access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=TAFF>{{cite web|url=https://taff.org.uk|title=Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund site|access-date=9 April 2025}}</ref>

Excluding collections, Langford's most recent professionally published book is ''The End of Harry Potter?'' (2006), an unauthorised companion to the famous series by [[J. K. Rowling]]. The work was published after the publication of the sixth volume in the Harry Potter series, but before publication of the seventh and final volume. It contains information, extracted from the books and from Rowling's many public statements, about the [[Wizarding World|wizarding world]] and popular theories concerning how the plot will develop in the last book. A revised version was published in the US in March 2007 by Tor Books, and in paperback form in the UK in May 2007. The book was commissioned from Langford by [[Malcolm Edwards]] of [[Orion Books]], who were seeking a book about the Harry Potter series.

Since 2011 he has devoted most of his time to ''Ansible'', Ansible Editions and ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]''.

He has been a guest of honour at [[Boskone]], [[Eastercon]] twice, [[Finncon]], [[Microcon]] three times, [[Minicon]] (see [[List of past Minicons]]), [[Novacon]], [[OryCon]] twice, [[Picocon]] several times, and [[Worldcon]] (see [[List of Worldcons]]).

==Awards==
Langford holds the all-time record for most [[Hugo Award]]s, with a total of 29 wins.{{efn|This is a joint record shared with [[Charles N. Brown]] of ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]''.<ref name=SFADB-Tallies/>}} He has won 21 Hugos for [[Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer|Best Fan Writer]], five for ''Ansible'' as [[Hugo Award for Best Fanzine|Best Fanzine]], another for ''Ansible'' as [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine|Best Semiprozine]], one for ''Different Kinds of Darkness'' as [[Hugo Award for Best Short Story|Best Short Story]], and one for ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'' as [[Hugo Award for Best Related Work|Best Related Work]].<ref name=SFADB/> Langford also has the second highest number of Hugo nominations at 55 (behind [[Mike Glyer]] at 57).<ref name=SFADB-Tallies/> He had a 19-year winning streak and 31-year streak of nominations for "Best Fan Writer" that came to an end in 2010.<ref name=SFADB/>

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==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=August 2017}}

===Short fiction===
;Collections
* {{cite book |author=Langford, David |title=He Do the Time Police in Different Voices |publisher=Wildside Press |year=2003 |isbn= 1592240585|title-link= He Do the Time Police in Different Voices}}
*  {{cite book |author=Langford, David |title=Different Kinds of Darkness |publisher=Cosmos Books |year=2004 |isbn= 1592241220 |title-link= Different Kinds of Darkness}}

===Non-fiction===
;Collections
* {{cite book |author=Langford, David |editor=Ben Yalow |others=Cover by Merle Insinga |title=Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man |publisher=NESFA Press |year=1992 <!--isbn=0-915368-50-1-->}}

;Book reviews
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!|Year
!class='unsortable'|Review article
!class='unsortable'|Work(s) reviewed
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|2000
|{{cite journal |author=Langford, David |date=Jul 2000 |title=[Untitled review]  |department=Curiosities |journal=[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] |volume=99 |issue=1 |pages=162 |url= <!--access-date= -->}}
|{{cite book |author=Richardson, Maurice |author-link=Maurice Richardson |title=The Exploits of Engelbricht |year=1950 <!--isbn=-->}}
|-
|2001
|{{cite journal |author=Langford, David |date=Jan 2001 |title=[Untitled review]  |department=Curiosities |journal=[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|F&SF]] |volume=100 |issue=1 |pages=162 |url= <!--access-date= -->}}
|{{cite book |author=Hinton, C. Howard |author-link=Charles Howard Hinton |title=The Fourth Dimension |url=https://archive.org/details/TheFourthDimension_201702 |year=1904 <!--isbn=-->}}
|}

==See also==
* ''[[The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution]]''

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em|refs=
<ref name=SFADB>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/David_Langford |title=David Langford Awards |work=[[Science Fiction Awards Database]] |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |access-date=1 October 2021}}</ref>
<ref name=SFADB-Tallies>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Hugo_Awards_Tallies |title=Hugo Awards Tallies |work=[[Science Fiction Awards Database]] |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |access-date=1 October 2021}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
* {{official website}} (Ansible.UK) – both Langford and ''Ansible'' 
*[http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/langford_david David Langford biographical entry] at ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'', 3rd ed. (co-edited by Langford)
*{{isfdb name |name=David Langford}}
* {{LCAuth|n79071914|David Langford|10|ue}}

===Short stories===
*[http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm ''BLIT'']
*[http://ansible.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html ''comp.basilisk FAQ'']
*[http://ansible.uk/writing/new_hope.html ''New Hope for the Dead'']

{{Hugo Award Best Short Story 2001–2020}}
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