A biography? One version that's appeared a few times goes like this:

"Born 10 April 1953 in Newport, Gwent, South Wales. Studied at Newport High School and (1971-4) Brasenose College, Oxford. BA (Hons) in Physics 1974, MA 1978. Weapons physicist at Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, Berkshire, from 1975 to 1980. Freelance author, editor and consultant ever since-main fields: science, technology, science fiction (both fiction and criticism), humour, small-system computing and futurology. Sideline in software marketing/consultancy (as Ansible Information, in partnership with fellow author Christopher Priest) since 1985. Married since 12 June 1976 to Hazel Langford -- no children but some 25,000 books. Most work published under own name; one admitted pseudonym, William Robert Loosley. Hobbies include real beer, antique hearing aids and the destruction of human civilization as we know it today."

Elsewhere in infinity plus:

• stories - BLIT.
• features - Digging Up the Future: On GK Chesterton (an infinity plus introduction); A Gadget Too Far -- a critical essay first published in New Worlds; On Who Put Back the Clock? by "E.H.B.", Dave's choice of neglected SF author; Second Childhood: JP Martin - the creator of Uncle (an infinity plus introduction).
• non-fiction - The Leaky Establishment reviewed by Keith Brooke.
• other stuff - find out about Big Engine, publishers of Dave's Leaky Establishment.
• contact - e-mail David Langford.

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