He Do the Time Police in Different Voices
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 a passage from Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend).
HDTTPIDV incorporates Langford's 1988 collection, The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two.
List of authors parodied in HDTTPIDV
- Harlan Ellison
- Piers Anthony
- Isaac Asimov
- Lewis Carroll
- The Brothers Grimm
- Frank Herbert
- William Hope Hodgson
- Michael Moorcock
- Damon Runyon
- E. E. Smith
- A. E. van Vogt
- James White
- Jorge Luis Borges
- G. K. Chesterton
- Agatha Christie
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Rex Stout