The Silence of the Langford

The Silence of the Langford, originally published in 1996 is still available from NESFA Press; a further expanded ebook edition was released by Langford's small press Ansible Editions in 2015 with a slightly modified cover (above right).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two
• Untrue Names
• Contrivances
• What Are They Doing in There?
• This Does Not Compute
• 100 Years Ago
• Nebulous Statistics
• Hack's Quest
• Misleading Cases
• Another Useful Review
• Trillion Year Sneer
• Follies of '88
• Endless Loops
• Some Informal Remarks toward the Punctuational Calculus
• Fun with Senseless Violence
• Best Foot Forward
• Ansible Review of the Year
• Somewhere near Penrhyndeudraeth
• Hugos and Critical Mass
• The Moving Accident
• The Leaky Establishment: The Final Drips
• Fizz! Buzz!

Slightly Foxed: The Million Columns

• 1: Thud & Blunder
• 2: Banned in New York
• 3: Bound & Gagged
• 4: The Worst Crime in the World
• 5: Ancient Images
• 6: The Reader is Warned
• 7: On the Twilight Edge
• 8: Gorey Stories
• 9: The Rest of Chesterton
• 10: Notes & Queries
• 11: The Missing Bits
• 12: Owl Stuffing Time

• Me and Whitley and the Continuum
• Tell Me the Old, Old Story
• Foodies of the Gods
• You Do It with Mirrors
• The Great Con
• The Arts of the Enemy [story]
• Wisdom of the Ancients
• Leaks [story]
• If Looks Could Kill [story]

Lies, Damned Lies and Ansible

• Obituary, 1979-1987
• The Ansible Review of the Year: 1992
• The Ansible Moose of the Year: 1994
• Ansible Hyperlink

• What the Black Holes Foretell
• Our Lady of Pain
• Highballs!
• Inside Outside

Platen Stories: Extras [added in the ebook version]

• The Book of War: Chapter 2080
• One Hundred Years Ago
• The Inverted Baked Alaska, and After
• The Yellow Peril and other clerihews
• A Load of Crystal Balls

• Bio-Bibliography
• Original Appearances
• Back Cover Blurbs

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Publication

1996

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