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Up Through an Empty House of Stars
Reviews and Essays 1980-2002

David Langford

ISBN 978-1-913451-18-9 (ebook)

Up Through an Empty House of Stars

Ansible Editions, 2016

Cover photograph: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team, “WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula”, 9 September 2009.

Up Through an Empty House of Stars, at last published in ebook form in March 2016, is a major retrospective collection of David Langford’s criticism that was first published in 2003 and was a Locus Recommended Reading List nonfiction choice for that year. The ebook contains the full text of the 2003 edition, with typo corrections and additional notes, plus five [now seven – April 2017] further pieces from the 1980-2002 period covered by the book and the expanded, improved 2004 version of Langford’s witty introductory essay from Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature. Total length of ebook: a little over 139,000 words.

There is wit here, and great jokes, and a sharp mind. But there’s more. David Langford makes us feel welcome in the house of science fiction. By being here, he graces us.” – John Clute on the cover of the print edition

Click the top button below for a fuller description of the 2003 book at the Langford site. The next button down takes you to a tasty selection of review quotations on the same page. And the next gives a full contents list.

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