The Limbo Files

The Limbo Files

The Limbo Files

David Langford

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2009
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ISBN:
9780809573240
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In 1985, when all the world was young and dot-matrix printers stalked the primeval swamps of computing, David Langford won his Hugo Award and began a long-running column for 8000 Plus magazine (later PCW Plus). This notoriously became the page readers turned to first.The magazine was devoted to the Amstrad PCW, a bestselling home computer that pioneered affordable word processing in Britain. Langford’s popular column used this official subject as a launch pad for witty coverage of life, the universe and everything.Freelancing writing and how to survive it; science fiction (especially that); secrets of editors, manuscripts, indexes, submission letters and padding; serious and spoof advice columns; parodies of Adventure games, legal proceedings, noir fiction and more; causes, scams and literary horror stories; timeless satire on shabby practice in the computer industry; awful 'Thog’s Masterclass' lines from SF . . . Langford shows all the wit and skill that brought him 28 Hugo Awards.

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