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Different Kinds of Darkness (Hardcover)

by David Langford (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Cosmos Books,US (3 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1592241212
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592241217
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 615,840 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A major fiction collection from multiple Hugo Award winner David Langford, Different Kinds of Darkness complements his parody assortment He Do the Time Police in Different Voices. Besides the acclaimed, Hugo-winning title piece and its influential prequels, the 36 stories include the British SF Association Award winner "Cube Root", and eight "Year's Best" and "Best Of" anthology choices. SF, fantasy, horror, and unclassifiable Langford weirdness ranging from 1975 to 2003.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection, 27 Oct 2006
By Nicholas Whyte (Oud Heverlee, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Different Kinds of Darkness (Paperback)
This is a collection of all Langford's short fiction not collected elsewhere (and also some that is). About half of it consists of his sf stories, ranging from decent to excellent in quality, including the brilliant "A Game of Consequences". Though I was struck that several of them revolved around a nuclear war and post-Holoocaust Britain; I guess we have different nightmares now.

Rather to my surprise the quality of the four pure fantasy stories in the collection is markedly inferior; I found them all somewhat formulaic. Again, rather to my surprise, I enjoyed almost all of the nine horror stories that followed, a genre I don't normally think of myself as liking much.

But the crowning glory of the collection is the sequence of "BLIT" stories. Langford has taken the idea of the drawings that kill you when you look at them and riffed it four different ways - police procedural ("BLIT"), academic politics ("What Happened at Cambridge IV"), usenet document ("comp.basilisk FAQ") and schoolboy yarn ("Different Kinds of Darkness", which won a Hugo). The third of these actually gives a genealogy of the concept including Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud, J.B. Priestley's The Shapes of Sleep, Piers Anthony's Macroscope, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and Monty Python's sketch about the deadly effects of the World's Funniest Joke. Fittingly, Langford's own concept has been refenced in other writers' novels.

Although he will remain best known for his fan-writing, it's nice to be reminded that he can turn our a decent story when he feels like it.
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