He Do the Time Police in Different Voices is a collection of parodies and pastiches of the work of multiple authors of science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction, all written by David Langford between 1976 and 2002 for various publications; the collection was published in 2003 by Wildside Press. The title is an homage to the originally proposed title of T. S. Eliot's groundbreaking poem, The Waste Land (itself named after a passage from Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend).

Reception

Emerald City described HDTTPIDVs content as "devastating Langfordian parodies", while Analog Science Fiction and Fact called it "delightful" and "good clean fun," and Michael Bishop, writing in the New York Review of Science Fiction, stated that it was "hilarious", and "enthusiastically recommend(ed)" it.

He Do the Time Police in Different Voices

List of authors parodied in HDTTPIDV

Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

Jorge Luis Borges

Lewis Carroll

G. K. Chesterton

Agatha Christie

Arthur Conan Doyle

Harlan Ellison

The Brothers Grimm

Frank Herbert

William Hope Hodgson

H. P. Lovecraft

Michael Moorcock

Damon Runyon

E. E. Smith

Rex Stout

A. E. van Vogt

James White

References

2003 books

Science fiction anthologies

Fantasy parodies

Fantasy anthologies

Wildside Press books

He Do the Time Police in Different Voices