39,327
edits
David Langford: Difference between revisions
m
Convert media template into media: links
(clean up) |
m (Convert media template into media: links) |
||
Line 13:
* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: In a mock-report of Britain's first science fiction convention, supposedly held in 1882 and featuring [[Jules Verne]] as the guest of honour.
* [[Brown Note]]: The "basilisk" images of the BLIT series.
* [[Defictionalization]]: Langford was one of the contributors to a book published in 1978 that claimed to be a reconstruction of the Necronomicon of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. Also, there's an
* [[Fantasy Twist]]: In ''The Leaky Establishment'', when Roy Tappen is trying to smuggle his accidentally stolen plutonium ''back'' into the NUTC, he briefly fantasises about claiming to have wrestled it from a Russian spy and being hailed as a hero. This fantasy rapidly shifts towards being asked serious questions about the supposed Russian spy, leading inevitably to being cast into the darkness with "UNEMPLOYABLE" tattooed on his forhead. Later fantasies are even worse, mostly ending with Britain becoming a radioactive wasteland, ''and'' [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|he gets fired.]]
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: This happens subsequently to death with the BLITs.
| |||