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David Langford (1) (1953–)

Autor von Terry Pratchetts Scheibenwelt-Quizbuch

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Werke von David Langford

The End of Harry Potter? (2006) 202 Exemplare
The Space Eater (1982) 169 Exemplare
The Leaky Establishment (1994) 164 Exemplare
Different Kinds of Darkness (2000) 66 Exemplare
Josh Kirby A Cosmic Cornucopia (1999) 53 Exemplare
Earthdoom (1987) 51 Exemplare
Guts: A Comedy of Manners (2001) 11 Exemplare
Starcombing (2009) 7 Exemplare
The net of Babel [short fiction] (1995) — Autor — 6 Exemplare
The Limbo Files (2009) 6 Exemplare
Analysing Talk (1994) 6 Exemplare
BLIT (1988) 5 Exemplare
The Lions In The Desert (1993) 4 Exemplare
Platen Stories (1987) 4 Exemplare
Leaks (1991) 3 Exemplare
What Happened at Cambridge IV (1990) 3 Exemplare
The Final Days {short story} (1981) 3 Exemplare
Connections [short fiction] (1978) 2 Exemplare
Serpent Eggs [short fiction] (1994) 2 Exemplare
If Looks Could Kill (1992) 2 Exemplare
Ellipses (1990) 2 Exemplare
The Case Of Jack The Clipper (1997) 2 Exemplare
3.47 AM [short fiction] (1983) 2 Exemplare
Let's hear it for the deaf man (1992) 2 Exemplare
Pieces of Langford 2 Exemplare
Cube Root [short fiction] (1985) 2 Exemplare
Snapshot album [short fiction] (1991) 2 Exemplare
The Motivation [short fiction] (1989) 2 Exemplare
comp.basilisk FAQ (1999) 2 Exemplare
Accretion [short fiction] (1977) 1 Exemplar
The Gutting [short fiction] (1998) 1 Exemplar
Outbreak [short fiction] (1985) 1 Exemplar
Xanthopsia [short fiction] (1998) 1 Exemplar
Wetware [short fiction] (1984) 1 Exemplar
Sacrifice 1 Exemplar
Irrational Numbers (1994) 1 Exemplar
Heatwave [short fiction] (1975) 1 Exemplar
Deepnet [short fiction] (1994) 1 Exemplar
Cold Spell [short fiction] (1980) 1 Exemplar
Hearing Aid [short fiction] (1982) 1 Exemplar
Training [short fiction] (1979) 1 Exemplar
Jellyfish [short fiction] (1985) 1 Exemplar
Ansible 1 Exemplar

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. (1993) — Mitwirkender — 685 Exemplare
The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Mitwirkender — 566 Exemplare
Sherlock Holmes und der Fluch von Addleton (1997) — Mitwirkender — 513 Exemplare
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) — Mitwirkender — 510 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben503 Exemplare
Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994) — Mitwirkender — 370 Exemplare
The Hard SF Renaissance (2003) — Mitwirkender — 345 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999) — Mitwirkender — 333 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Mitwirkender — 282 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 4 (1999) — Mitwirkender — 263 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 2 (1997) — Mitwirkender — 262 Exemplare
Alien Emergencies (A Sector General Omnibus) (2002) — Einführung — 235 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 11 (2006) — Mitwirkender — 235 Exemplare
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995) — Mitwirkender — 217 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001) — Mitwirkender — 184 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy (2005) — Mitwirkender — 180 Exemplare
Terry Pratchett: Guilty Of Literature (2000) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben151 Exemplare
Starlight 2 (1998) — Mitwirkender — 137 Exemplare
Year's Best SF 16 (2011) — Mitwirkender — 128 Exemplare
Futures from Nature (2007) — Mitwirkender — 112 Exemplare
The Best of Interzone (1997) — Mitwirkender — 99 Exemplare
Temps (1991) — Mitwirkender — 98 Exemplare
Thor's Hammer (1979) — Mitwirkender — 92 Exemplare
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003) — Mitwirkender — 85 Exemplare
Other Edens (1987) — Mitwirkender — 83 Exemplare
After War (1985) — Mitwirkender — 79 Exemplare
Witpunk (2003) — Autor — 73 Exemplare
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Mitwirkender — 64 Exemplare
Villains!: Book 1 (1992) — Mitwirkender — 62 Exemplare
Digital Dreams (1990) — Mitwirkender — 61 Exemplare
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Mitwirkender — 59 Exemplare
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Mitwirkender — 58 Exemplare
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
Eurotemps (1992) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 09 (1998) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
Is Anybody Out There? (2010) — Mitwirkender — 53 Exemplare
Interzone: The 3rd Anthology (1988) — Mitwirkender — 50 Exemplare
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII (1985) — Umschlagillustration — 50 Exemplare
More Tales from the "Forbidden Planet" (1990) — Mitwirkender — 49 Exemplare
New Worlds 2 (1992) — Mitwirkender — 47 Exemplare
New Worlds 4 (1994) — Mitwirkender — 46 Exemplare
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Mitwirkender — 46 Exemplare
4 Novels (1984) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben45 Exemplare
Arrows of Eros (1989) — Mitwirkender — 43 Exemplare
Fables from the Fountain (2011) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
New Writings in SF-27 (1977) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII (1994) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
Interzone: The 4th Anthology (1983) — Mitwirkender — 41 Exemplare
Andromeda 3 (1978) — Mitwirkender — 38 Exemplare
The Fortune Teller (1997) — Mitwirkender — 35 Exemplare
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
The Weerde Book 2: The Book of the Ancients (1993) — Mitwirkender — 31 Exemplare
Andromeda 2 (1977) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
After Midnight (1986) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
Drabble II: Double Century (1990) — Mitwirkender — 25 Exemplare
Book of Alien Monsters (1982) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
Beyond Lands of Never: A Further Anthology of Modern Fantasy (1984) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
Drabble Project (1988) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 24, No. 9 [September 2000] (2000) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Interzone 259 (2015) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Alien Encounters (1982) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
White Dwarf 70 (1985) — Herausgeber — 8 Exemplare
White Dwarf 63 (1985) — Herausgeber — 7 Exemplare
Interzone 257 (2015) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
White Dwarf 74 (1986) — Herausgeber — 7 Exemplare
Interzone 284 (2019) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
White Dwarf 60 (1984) — Herausgeber — 7 Exemplare
White Dwarf 65 (1985) — Herausgeber — 6 Exemplare
White Dwarf 77 (1986) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
White Dwarf 99 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
White Dwarf 67 (1985) — Herausgeber — 6 Exemplare
White Dwarf 75 (1986) — Herausgeber — 6 Exemplare
White Dwarf 56 (1984) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 57 (1984) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 59 (1984) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 84 (1986) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 39 (1983) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 79 (1986) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 44 (1983) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
White Dwarf 76 (1986) — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 48 (1983) — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 58 (1984) — Herausgeber — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 83 (1986) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 98 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 87 (1987) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Interzone 271 (2017) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 104 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 97 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
White Dwarf 49 (1984) — Herausgeber — 3 Exemplare
White Dwarf 51 (1984) — Herausgeber — 3 Exemplare
White Dwarf 94 (1987) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
White Dwarf 96 (1987) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
White Dwarf 105 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
White Dwarf 93 (1987) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Fortean Times 89 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Fortean Times 92 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Fortean Times 95 — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
White Dwarf 95 (1987) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Focus 72 (2021) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Focus 69 (2019) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Focus 67 (2017) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
White Dwarf 103 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Focus 71 (2020) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
White Dwarf 106 (1988) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Focus 68 (2018) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
New Writings in SF - Special 3 (1978) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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kat hamna i skåpet. Nu blir problemet att smuggla tillbaka den, vilket blir markant svårare av de nya detektorer som installerats och en ständig, pervers otur.

Det hela är en ganska klassisk brittisk fars, med ständigt nya komplikationer, chefer som ständigt sparkar neråt och en huvudperson som tar till allt vildare planer och allt grövre lögner för att klara sig ur de situationer som de leder till, eller bara de tämligen oberoende klavertramp som kommer av ett alltför utvecklat sinne för sarkasm. Det är kanske inte en direkt vidräkning med allt som har med atomvapen att göra, även om man inte direkt känner sig säker med att någon av personerna där borde få syssla med sådant.

Mitt största problem med boken vara snarast att jag hade svårt för Tappen: visst känner jag igen mig och en del kollegor i vissa drag, men den typ av konstant humoristiskt överhetstrots och hybris som tillsammans med överdriver alkoholberoende tycks vara hans främsta kännetecken må vara nödvändiga för handlingen, men de fungerar bättre som drag hos bifigurer än protagonister. Komedin är vanligen välfunnen, men snarare i de små scenerna snarare än den stora farsen, och det känns som denna hade behövts skruvats upp något varv till innan klimax.

Nåväl, nukleära komedier är inte alltför vanliga, och jag skall nog i alla fall höra med kollegor om det är någon som är intresserad. I alla fall de jag kan känna mig säker på inte skulle bli alltför inspirerade …
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andejons | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 14, 2023 |
Many times, and quite effusively, Terry Pratchett mentions this book in his sort of autobiography, "A Slip of the Keyboard." In addition, Terry Pratchett wrote the forward to this edition of this book. And having read both of those as well as this book, it is clear that Sir Terry Pratchett is a very British writer. This book is a very British take on the activities of workers at a nuclear research station in England during the 1960s. It is not that the activities of the workers could only have happened in Britain, but rather, things like the emphasis on which activities are important and which trivial, and definitely which are humorous, could only have been chosen by a very British writer.… (mehr)
 
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mlsestak | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 9, 2022 |
This was OK for me, but no more. There are two SFnal gimmicks needed to drive the plot and that was enough to make the result seem contrived to me. First, Earth has apparently been involved in international warfare so long that a special set of troops has been developed to endure and even enjoy being violently killed and reborn. Next, there is a wormhole technology but it turns out using it causes stars to go nova all over the place. So now our hero is selected to be sent through a really tiny (1.934 cm) wormhole to a colony in order to convince them to stop using the technology. Somehow they have a way to squeeze him through that hole, fatally hence why they pick him, but reconstructibly. I couldn't figure out how that worked. Then eventually his talents are needed again for the big climax. Oh, and there's a nascent love interest who goes through the same process but she remained a cypher for me for the entire book. So much detail is spent on the physics at several points that I assume some of it must make sense, but it bogs down the narrative.

OK, and recommended if space opera mixed with a bit of angst is your thing.
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