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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. (Published: 1983)
Words: 3458 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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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. (Published: 1982)
Words: 3186 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
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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. (Published: 1991)
Words: 2506 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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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. (Published: 1985)
Words: 2136 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Humor
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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.... (Published: 1981)
Words: 1989 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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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. (Published: 2002)
Words: 1105 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
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The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A borderline-SF case for Holmes; one of the stories that Watson mentions in the sacred texts but never wrote up. The revolting Red Leech, Sanguisuga rufa, is even more sinister than it looks.... [Authorized by the Doyle estate.] (Published: 1997)
Words: 5382 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime/Science Fiction
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A Game of Consequences [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Langford is known for his comedy, but this story is more horrifying than funny. It traces the development of scientists in their youth, noting the dangerous games they tend to play, and extrapolates this to a future project that may be the last game of all for humanity. Langford tells us that the teenage stunts portrayed here are "largely biographical," making this story even more chilling. (Published: 1998)
Words: 3545 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Horror
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A Snapshot Album [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Amid the lovingly described landscapes of North Wales, our narrator is plagued by illness and mysterious inner timeslips that make a single eyeblink seem half an eternity. Can he convince a sceptical outsider of what's happening? (Published: 1991)
Words: 3966 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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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? (Published: 1977)
Words: 2326 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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As Strange a Maze as E'er Men Trod [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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What was the real crime committed in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and by whom? Unsatisfied with the happy ending, Gonzalo investigates.... There's a subtle clue in the epigraph quotation, which genuinely comes from Shakespeare's play. (Published: 1998)
Words: 3810 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
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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.
(Published: 1995)
Words: 1916 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Horror/Humor
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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.... (Published: 1992)
Words: 2447 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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Christmas Games [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A virtual Clue romp! This is a playful whodunit with a twist. (Published: 1993)
Words: 3713 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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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.... (Published: 1980)
Words: 3606 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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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. (Published: 1978)
Words: 3956 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Cube Root [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A military exercise spins out of control and a small unit must somehow cope with the inevitable. (Published: 1985) British Science Fiction Award Winner
Words: 5691 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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David Langford Complete Bundle
by David Langford
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A convenient way for you to add all of David Langford's works to your bookshelf at one time. [When you add a bundle to your cart, any eBooks you already own are automatically removed. You can't accidentally buy the same story twice.]
Words: 38969 - Reading Time: 111-155 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Humor
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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. (Published: 1994)
Words: 2241 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
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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>> (Published: 2000) HOMer Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 3892 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Duel of Words by Fr*nk H*rb*rt [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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Langford's brief, deft parody (written in the 1970s) says it all--and appeared a year before National Lampoon's Doon sent up Frank Herbert's Dune at novel length. (Published: 1983)
Words: 1679 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
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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. (Published: 1990)
Words: 2219 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
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Hearing Aid [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A tone-deaf man turns to technology to solve his problems. Great, dry, British humour abounds. (Published: 1982)
Words: 3057 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Humor
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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. (Published: 1975)
Words: 3161 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
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If Looks Could Kill [MultiFormat]
by David Langford
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A send-up of pulp detective stories that mixes detective work with odd paranormal-ability-laden superheros. (Published: 1992)
Words: 6420 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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