David Pringle

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David Pringle
Born (1950-03-01) 1 March 1950 (age 73)
Selkirk, Scotland
Occupation Editor
Period1979–present
Genre Science fiction, horror
Notable works Interzone

David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor and critic. [1] [2]

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Pringle served as the editor of Foundation , an academic journal, from 1980 to 1986, during which time he became one of the prime movers of the collective which founded Interzone in 1982. [2] By 1988, he was the sole publisher and editor of Interzone, a position he retained until he sold the magazine to Andy Cox in 2004. For 2+12 years, from 1991 to 1993, he also edited and published a magazine entitled Million: The Magazine About Popular Fiction.

Interzone was nominated several times for the Hugo award for best semiprozine, winning in 1995. [3] In 2005, the Worldcon committee gave Pringle a Special Award for his work on Interzone. [3]

Pringle is a scholar of J. G. Ballard. He wrote the first short monograph on Ballard, Earth is the Alien Planet: J. G. Ballard's Four-Dimensional Nightmare (Borgo Press, 1979) and compiled J. G. Ballard: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1984). He also published a newsletter, first titled News From The Sun then JGB News, from 1981 until 1996. [4]

He worked as a series editor for Games Workshop, in 1988–1991, commissioning shared world novels and short stories based on their Warhammer and Dark Future games. [2]

Pringle has written several guides to science fiction, including Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels . His books are less American-oriented and more British-oriented than many similar works. He has also edited two large reference books, St James Guide to Fantasy Writers and St James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers; plus a number of anthologies and illustrated coffee-table books about genre writing.

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References

  1. Birch, Dinah, ed. (2009). "Pringle, David". The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-280687-1.
  2. 1 2 3 Clute, John; Nicholls, Peter (29 October 2021). "Pringle, David". In Clute, John; Langford, David (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.).
  3. 1 2 "The Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  4. "News from the Sun Number 1".