David Pringle
David Pringle (born 1 March 1950 in Selkirk, Scotland) is a Scottish editor and critic who specializes in science fiction. He edited the academic journal Foundation from 1980 to 1986 and helped start Interzone in 1982. He ran Interzone as editor and publisher from 1988 until selling it to Andy Cox in 2004. He also published Million: The Magazine About Popular Fiction from 1991 to 1993.
Interzone was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine several times and won in 1995. In 2005, Worldcon gave Pringle a Special Award for his work on Interzone.
Pringle is a scholar of J. G. Ballard. He wrote the first short monograph on Ballard, Earth is the Alien Planet (1979), and compiled J. G. Ballard: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1984). He published newsletters about Ballard from 1981 to 1996. He also worked as a series editor for Games Workshop (1988–1991), commissioning material for Warhammer and Dark Future.
He 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. He edited two major reference works, St James Guide to Fantasy Writers and St James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers, along with many anthologies and illustrated books about genre writing.
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