Comments for David Langford

Comment on Ansible 253, August 2008 by Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:34:11 +0000

Dastardly and motley?

Comment on Ansible 252, July 2008 by A.R.Yngve

A.R.Yngve — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:09:52 +0000

Who’s complaining?

Comment on SFX 168 column by David Langford

David Langford — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:47:08 +0000

I can’t disagree with any of that. I suspect that Lord of the Flies wasn’t really considered as a contender owing to its lack of overt sf trappings.

Comment on SFX 168 column by Todd Mason

Todd Mason — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:31:40 +0000

The notion that MISSION OF GRAVITY was denied the award by this widely reviled novel is pretty croggling in restrospect…Heinlien’s THE STAR BEAST, a juvenile that had been serialized in F&SF as STAR LUMMOX and about as sophisticated as that title implies, would only have been an award-winner under the same sort of We Want to Give Him, Rather Than the Work in Question, The Award spirit that RIGHT apparently benefitted from. But the Clement was probably his most important novel, and a benchmark for the field in a way that none of the others cited, except LORD OF THE FLIES, could be said to be…and Golding, of course, would be recognized outside the Church of SF in a way Clement would not. Ah, well…perhaps the Hugo helped Clifton keep going a little longer, even if he was bitterly disillusioned about sf people by his end.

Comment on SFX 162 column by David Langford

David Langford — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:57:55 +0000

I sincerely hope not. But with the great and mighty James Bacon, you never know.

Happy New Year indeed!

Comment on SFX 162 column by Jan Vaněk jr.

Jan Vaněk jr. — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:01:57 +0000

Are those photos online?

Happy New Year,

Comment on SFX 161 column by Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:50:53 +0000

I wonder if it’s something to do with the spam filter? If it works by retrospectively killing comment spam, it’s possible that it clears out the spam comment, but doesn’t reset the comment count. Or something.

Comment on Ansible 242, September 2007 by David Langford

David Langford — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:59:53 +0000

Thanks — now fixed. This is what comes of tinkering with the HTML late at night.

Comment on Ansible 242, September 2007 by Paul A.

Paul A. — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:19:43 +0000

Just to point out: the link to A241 in the Outraged Letters section is broken (has an extra character on the end that shouldn’t be there).

Comment on Ansible 239, June 2007 by Erland

Erland — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:03:58 +0000

…and just to add a small twist, all of them are Swedes, and Swedens national day happens to be…… June 6th.