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In 1985, when all the world was young and dot-matrix printers stalked the primeval swamps of computing, David Langford won his Hugo Award and began a long-running column for 8000 Plus magazine (later PCW Plus). This notoriously became the page readers turned to first. The magazine was devoted to the Amstrad PCW, a bestselling home computer that pioneered affordable word processing in Britain. Langford's popular column used this official subject as a launch pad for witty coverage of life, the universe and everything. Freelancing writing and how to survive it; science fiction (especially that); secrets of editors, manuscripts, indexes, submission letters and padding; serious and spoof advice columns; parodies of Adventure games, legal proceedings, noir fiction and more; causes, scams and literary horror stories; timeless satire on shabby practice in the computer industry; awful "Thog's Masterclass" lines from SF . . . Langford shows all the wit and skill that brought him 28 Hugo Awards.

Book details

• Full title: The Limbo Files
• Author: David Langford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• EAN: 9780809573240
• ISBN: 0809573245
• ID: 11530781
• Publisher: Cosmos Books
• Weight: 285 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2009

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