Limbo Files

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.

Product details

• Authors: David Langford
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2009
• EAN: 9780809573240
• ISBN: 978-0-8095-7324-0
• No. of pages: 188
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries