Starcombing

Starcombing

Starcombing

David Langford

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas
ISBN:
9780809573431
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Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford’s witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous ’Futures’ page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.

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