David Pringle

David Pringle
David Pringle
Born	1 March 1950 (age 74) ; Selkirk , Scotland
Occupation	Editor
Period	1979?present
Genre	Science fiction , horror
Notable works	Interzone

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

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 + 1 ⁄ 2 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.

References [ edit ]

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

External links [ edit ]

David Pringle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
David Pringle at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Works by David Pringle at the Internet Archive

[oxford-1] Birch, Dinah , ed. (2009). "Pringle, David" . The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280687-1 .

[clute-2] Clute, John ; Nicholls, Peter (29 October 2021). "Pringle, David" . In Clute, John; Langford, David (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.).

[hugo-3] "The Hugo Awards" . World Science Fiction Society . 2010 . Retrieved 2010-01-25 .

[4] "News from the Sun Number 1" .

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