David Langford
Birth date: April 10, 1953
David Langford's Books
Warning: this review is pretty long. Alien Emergencies is the second Sector General omnibus and includes either four or three works in the series, depending on how you count them. There's Ambulance Ship, Sector General, and Star Healer. Ambulance Ship starts off with “Spacebird,” a story set on Se...
Though the title is a bit misleading (much of the book is not about "the mysteries that remain"), this is a nicely-written and often humerous exegesis on Harry Potter. As was the case for Orson Scott Card's section of The Great Snape Debate, this book was written by a science fiction writer who is v...
PNH is talented at shifting the gold from the dross: his collections are always better than the generally crap anthologies usually produced. A personal favorite is Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat," in which aliens about to make First Contact with us are horrified by what they find. Sci fi...