Comments for David Langford http://davidlangford.co.uk Writer, critic, and editor of Ansible Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:44:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on SFX 178 column by Todd Mason http://davidlangford.co.uk/2009/03/08/sfx-178-column/#comment-2808 Todd Mason Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:54 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2009/03/08/sfx-178-column/#comment-2808 Ah...oh, That front-page. Well...it's a "cozier" intro to what ANSIBLE's about... Ah…oh, That front-page. Well…it’s a “cozier” intro to what ANSIBLE’s about…

]]> Comment on SFX 178 column by Todd Mason http://davidlangford.co.uk/2009/03/08/sfx-178-column/#comment-2807 Todd Mason Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:38:00 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2009/03/08/sfx-178-column/#comment-2807 I like the "traditional" front-page, myself...serves as a sort of blog, doesn't it? I like the “traditional” front-page, myself…serves as a sort of blog, doesn’t it?

]]> Comment on SFX 177 column by Todd Mason http://davidlangford.co.uk/2009/02/07/sfx-177-column/#comment-2765 Todd Mason Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:25:49 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2009/02/07/sfx-177-column/#comment-2765 Argh. I didn't answer the question and so my delightfully snarky comment is lost to posterity. Struth. Argh. I didn’t answer the question and so my delightfully snarky comment is lost to posterity. Struth.

]]> Comment on Drilkjis again by David Langford http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/12/14/drilkjis-again/#comment-2662 David Langford Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:47:40 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/12/14/drilkjis-again/#comment-2662 "... just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that." “… just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”

]]> Comment on Drilkjis again by Jan Vaněk jr. http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/12/14/drilkjis-again/#comment-2621 Jan Vaněk jr. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:50:46 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/12/14/drilkjis-again/#comment-2621 And why is that, may I ask? It can't be copyright issues, or can it? P. S. The Hash-cash antispam plugin apparently has fatal problems dealing with comments from people who have Javascript turned off :-( And why is that, may I ask? It can’t be copyright issues, or can it?

P. S. The Hash-cash antispam plugin apparently has fatal problems dealing with comments from people who have Javascript turned off :-(

]]> Comment on SFX 171 column by A.R.Yngve http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/08/29/sfx-171-column/#comment-2091 A.R.Yngve Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:47:48 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/08/29/sfx-171-column/#comment-2091 Reply to quote in the most fey voice possible: "Really." ;-) Reply to quote in the most fey voice possible:
“Really.”

;-)

]]> Comment on Ansible 253, August 2008 by Adam Roberts http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/08/02/ansible-253-august-2008/#comment-1671 Adam Roberts Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:34:11 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/08/02/ansible-253-august-2008/#comment-1671 Dastardly and motley? Dastardly and motley?

]]> Comment on Ansible 252, July 2008 by A.R.Yngve http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/06/30/ansible-252-july-2008/#comment-1378 A.R.Yngve Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:09:52 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/06/30/ansible-252-july-2008/#comment-1378 Who's complaining? :) Who’s complaining? :)

]]> Comment on SFX 168 column by David Langford http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/05/30/sfx-168-column/#comment-1354 David Langford Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:47:08 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/05/30/sfx-168-column/#comment-1354 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. 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 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/05/30/sfx-168-column/#comment-1351 Todd Mason Sat, 31 May 2008 00:31:40 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2008/05/30/sfx-168-column/#comment-1351 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. 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.

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