Howard Waldrop
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Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946) in Houston, Mississippi, and got his degree from the University of Texas. He is a science fiction author who works almost entirely in short fiction.
Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American south, old movies (and character actors), classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music. His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical. The stories are often considered entertaining: Night of the Cooters is The War of the Worlds told from the perspective of a Texas sheriff (an homage to Slim Pickens); Heirs of the Perisphere involves robotic Disney characters waking up in the far future; Fin de Cyclé describes the Dreyfus affair from the perspective of bicycle enthusiasts.
Waldrop's work is frequently out of print and sometimes hard to find. Some of his books have been reprinted in omnibus editions.
Several of his stories have been nominated for awards; The Ugly Chickens -- about the dodo -- won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981. This is perhaps his best known work.
Born in Mississippi, Waldrop spent most of his life in Texas. He moved to Washington for a few years but has since returned to Austin. He is an avid fly fisherman. He is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. In 2004 he started writing movie reviews with Lawrence Person for [Locus Online].
External links
- [] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- [A Woodsman's Guide to Howard Waldrop]
- [The Ugly Chickens] (online at scifi.com)
Bibliography
Novels & novellas
- The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 (with Jake Saunders, 1974) (Ballantine, 1986, ISBN 0345339940)
- Them Bones (Ace, 1984, ISBN 0441805574)
- A Dozen Tough Jobs (novella) (Mark V Ziesing, 1989, ISBN 0-929480-01-5)
Short story collections
- Howard Who? (Doubleday, 1986) (expanded edition upcoming July 2006, Small Beer Press, ISBN 1931520186)
- All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (1987) (Ace, 1991, ISBN 0441160697)
- Night of the Cooters (1990) (Ace, 1993, ISBN 0441574734)
- Going Home Again (Eidolon, 1997, ISBN 0-9586864-0-8)
- Dream Factories and Radio Pictures (e-book, 2001 at http://www.electricstory.com; printed form from Wheatland Press 2003)
- Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (Golden Gryphon, 2003, ISBN 1930846134) (includes Waldrop's collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Lisa Tuttle, George R. R. Martin, and others.
- Heart of Whitenesse (Subterranean Press, 2005, ISBN 1596060182)
- War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches edited by Kevin J. Anderson, (Bantam USA, 1997, ISBN 0553575988) (includes "Night of the Cooters")
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