David Rowland Langford was born on 10 April 1953 and is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.
17 Facts About David Langford
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David Langford publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter Ansible, and holds the all-time record for most Hugo Awards, with a total of 29 wins.
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David Langford was born and grew up in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales before studying for a degree in Physics at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he first became involved in science fiction fandom.
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David Langford's novelette An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871, published in 1979, is an account of a UFO encounter, as experienced by a Victorian; in its framing story Langford claims to have found the manuscript in an old desk and he analyses the story from a modern perspective, highlighting apparent descriptions of nuclear physics and quantum mechanics in Loosley's record.
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David Langford had one serious science fiction novel published in 1982, The Space Eater.
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David Langford's 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.
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The concept of a "cognitohazard", largely identical to David Langford's basilisks, is sometimes used in the fictional universe of the SCP Foundation.
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David Langford wrote the science fiction and fantasy book review column for 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.
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David Langford has written columns for several computer magazines, notably 8000 Plus, which was devoted to the Amstrad PCW word processor.
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David Langford assisted in producing the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and contributed some 80,000 words of articles to The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
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David Langford is one of the four chief editors of the third, online edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and shared this reference work's 2012 Hugo Award for Best Related Work.
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David Langford has edited a book of John Sladek's uncollected work, published in 2002 as Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek.
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David Langford has been a guest of honour at Boskone, Eastercon twice, Finncon, Microcon three times, Minicon, Novacon, OryCon twice, Picocon several times, and Worldcon.
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David Langford holds the all-time record for most Hugo Awards, with a total of 29 wins.
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David Langford has won 21 Hugos for Best Fan Writer, five for Ansible as Best Fanzine, another for Ansible as Best Semiprozine, one for Different Kinds of Darkness as Best Short Story, and one for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as Best Related Work.
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David Langford has the second highest number of Hugo nominations at 55.
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David Langford had a 19-year winning streak and 31-year streak of nominations for "Best Fan Writer" that came to an end in 2010.