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''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).
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''The Silence of the Langford'', a [[NESFA Press]] collection of [[fanwriting]] by [[Dave Langford]], edited by Ben Yalow, was originally published in 1996 as a 278pp trade paperback. This was expanded from the earlier Langford collection ''[[Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man]]'' with the same publisher and editor. ''Silence'', as reissued with slight corrections in December 1997, 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 (shown at the right).
  
 
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[Further articles and information]
 
* What the Black Holes Foretell
 
* What the Black Holes Foretell
 
* Our Lady of Pain
 
* Our Lady of Pain
 
* Highballs!
 
* Highballs!
 
* Inside Outside
 
* Inside Outside
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* Bio-Bibliography
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* Original Appearances
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* Back Cover Blurbs
  
 
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* Bio-Bibliography
 
* Original Appearances
 
* Back Cover Blurbs
 
  
 
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Revision as of 02:26, 5 December 2023

The Silence of the Langford Cover.jpg

The Silence of the Langford, a NESFA Press collection of fanwriting by Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow, was originally published in 1996 as a 278pp trade paperback. This was expanded from the earlier Langford collection Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man with the same publisher and editor. Silence, as reissued with slight corrections in December 1997, 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 (shown at the 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

[Further articles and information]

  • What the Black Holes Foretell
  • Our Lady of Pain
  • Highballs!
  • Inside Outside
  • Bio-Bibliography
  • Original Appearances
  • Back Cover Blurbs

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



Publication 1996
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