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Ellipses [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Conflicting accounts of what happened after a dying man constructed a mathematical technique of communication from beyond the grave. 1990
Words: 2219 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Waiting for the Iron Age [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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The Wandering Jew himself looks back reminiscently from an inconceivably remote future. "Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?" 1991
Words: 1689 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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What Happened at Cambridge IV [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A man receives a sealed envelope with a dire warning attached. 1990
Words: 4093 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Outbreak by J*mes Wh*te [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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This alien-contact-style parody of the James White "Sector General" stories displays some of Langford's typical dry British humour. 1985
Words: 2136 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Lions in the Desert [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Two wise-cracking men find that there are shape-shifters among us. 1993
Words: 3602 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Leaks [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A detective with paranormal abilities is called in to investigate problems at a top secret nuclear facility. 1991
Words: 6924 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Different Kinds of Darkness [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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The field of advanced mathematic imaging has taken a lethal turn in the form of the BLIT. Named after the now-deceased mathematician Vernon Berryman, the Berryman Logical Imaging Technique can create images that crash the human brain in the same way a computer crashes from a sufficiently complex query. Terrorists have killed millions using posters, graffiti--and television. Many parents have had secret biochips implanted in the optic nerves of their children to darken the world outside of their ... more info>> 2000 HOMer Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 3892 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Case That Never Was [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Dagon Smythe, Psychic Investigator, tackles the most baffling, sinister and generally unbelievable haunting of his career. It is the case that he will be unable to remember...." 2001
Words: 2120 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Blood and Silence [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A new theory of vampirism emerges from a laboratory team's grudges, in-fighting, and struggles for publication credit. Horror and deadpan humour in a witty mix.
1995
Words: 1916 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Horror
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The Spear of the Sun [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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This story is fascinating from several different angles. First, it is an alternate history story that presumes that the founder of science fiction was G.K. Chesterton instead of Hugo Gernsback. Second, it presumes that Chesterton wrote his famous "Father Brown" mystery series in the science fiction genre rather than a pure mystery format. Third, it presents for us a "new" Father Brown mystery that takes place on a space ship. This is wildly imaginative and succeeds in its own right as a mystery ... more info>> 1996
Words: 2700 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Space Eater [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Ken Jackin has defeated death forty-six times thanks to the extraordinary phenomenon called Anomalous Physics, but now he has his most difficult mission: stop the experiments on a runaway space colony. In order to get into the colony, Ken and his lovely and seductive partner, Rossa Corman, must die and be reborn again. Together they have surpassed death in order to save humanity and must face the most dangerous peril they have ever experienced. The clock is ticking as Ken and Rossa scramble to s... more info>> 1982
Words: 88014 - Reading Time: 251-352 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Cold Spell [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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England is full of traditional village folk dances, and one of them may be more important and magical than all the rest. At least, everyone seems strangely worried when a rebellious youngster refuses to play his part at the winter solstice.... 1980
Words: 3606 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Horror
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3.47 AM [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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An unusual horror story of recurring nightmares somehow connected with a bedside digital clock. Selected by Karl Edward Wagner for The Year's Best Horror: Series XII. 1983
Words: 3458 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Accretion [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Literary fable with a hint of Jorge Luis Borges. Suppose all the world's writers worked together (as one French critic actually suggested) and set their stories in the same imaginary city? Could the dream become real? 1977
Words: 2326 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Blossoms that Coil and Decay [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A feverish stew of decadence and fin-de-siecle corruption, with epigrams swapped at the Cafe Royal, walk-on parts for Wilde, Whistler, Swinburne and many more, all through the magic of virtual reality.... 1992
Words: 2447 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Connections [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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What violence has to be done to physics as we know it, to allow a working matter transmitter? Full of ingenuity and paradox, this story explores the field of Anomalous Physics that became central to Langford's SF novel The Space Eater. 1978
Words: 3956 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Answering Machine [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Digital black comedy as a conversational computer--mindlessly reacting to real if not life-threatening human problems--feeds back increasingly unwise "advice"... Includes terrifying insights into the grim world of writing movie novelizations. 1982
Words: 3186 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Deepnet [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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The IT revolution comes to H.P. Lovecraft's decayed seaport of Innsmouth, in an eerie story that mixes traditional and very modern fears. 1994
Words: 2241 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Encounter of Another Kind [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Darkly witty revelation of what lies behind a UFO abduction experience which is not at all what it seems--with a nasty sting (or probe) in the tail. 1991
Words: 2506 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Final Days [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Suppose the future were watching us, and we found a way to learn who's being watched most closely? Inevitably there are strange effects on the chemistry of fame, and of politics.... 1981
Words: 1989 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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Heatwave [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Langford's first published story: a black comedy in which big science and national security react in their own supremely unhelpful ways to the news that something drastic is happening to our Sun. 1975
Words: 3161 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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In a Land of Sand and Ruin and Gold [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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At the far end of time, when all Earth is a cosy adventure playground, there are still misfits who long for something new and different. Love and horror follow when one of them acquires an ancient mind weapon. According to Damien Broderick, this story foreshadowed the preoccupations of Greg Egan. 1987
Words: 3375 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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In the Place of Power [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A short but cosmic fantasy. A young man with a knife versus the magus who controls the world? No contest.... 1984
Words: 2422 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Jellyfish by D*m*n R*ny*n [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Ever wondered whether Damon Runyon's extraordinary narrative style was ever applied to sf or fantasy? In this admiring pastiche, a mobster gains a wonderful secret that has very unexpected side effects. 1985
Words: 2259 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Last Robot Story by Is**c As*m*v [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Another Langford parody. Devastating logic about the physics of positronic brains ensures that this must be the absolutely final case of a certain future detective and his robotic sidekick. 2002
Words: 1105 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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