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.
[3] In 2005, the Worldcon committee gave Pringle a Special Award for his work on Interzone.
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.