Readercon
July, 2003: Guest of Honor Howard
Waldrop was interviewed by Ellen
Datlow. Sad to say, maybe you (and definitely I) missed it.
However, you can, for
the nice low price of $7 (US shipping included, $10 rest of world)
get a CD copy all of your own.
Order
through Paypal
or send a check or money order
to:
Small Beer Press
176 Prospect Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
All proceeds (minus actual
cost of shipping and CDs) go to Howard Waldrop.
Who? (You wouldn't be the
first person to ask.)
Here's a bibliography
Jonathan Strahan of Locus recently put together.
What's in print from HW:
Custer's
Last Jump, and Other Collaborations by Howard Waldrop
-- Collaborators include Leigh Kennedy, George R. R. Martin,
Jake "Buddy" Saunders, Bruce Sterling, and Steven Utley.
Dream
Factories and Radio Pictures by Howard Waldrop (eBook!)
-- With original essays introducing his mass-media-related stories,
World Fantasy Award-winning author Howard Waldrop guides us
through various audiovisual dreamscapes from the end of the
nineteenth century into the far future. Along the way, he brings
to life such heroes as Melies, Proust, and the hallucinatory
Alfred Jarry, defender of the oppressed and the "ordinary" bicycle;
the great comedians of early film and television; and the android
avatars of a world-famous duck, mouse, and dog. Any film buff
will appreciate not only Waldrop's insights into the technical
and social development of our dream factories and radio pictures,
but also his fictional distortions, which capture the romantic
spirit of his subjects better than cinŽma vŽritŽ ever could.
A
Better World's in Birth!
-- It's 1876, twenty-three years after the executions of
the Peoples' Revolutionary leaders Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx,
and Richard Wagner -- and spectres in the guise of these three
men are haunting Communist Europe, specifically the city of
Dresden. Officer Rienzi, from the Peoples' Department for Security,
is called in to investigate. Are these spectres truly ghosts
of the Revolution's leaders? Or is there a larger conspiracy
afoot? And if a conspiracy, does it involve Comrade Leader Eisenmann,
who became head of the Peoples' Federated States of Europe following
the death of Wagner? With A Better World's in Birth!,
author Howard Waldrop has skillfully crafted another of his
trademark alternate history stories, this one about the peoples'
revolutionary leader (and German composer) Richard Wagner. More
than 10,000 words of pure Waldrop. In the Afterword, the author
details the story behind this story that was twenty years in
the making. Each copy is signed and numbered by the author on
the limitation page. With scintillating wraparound cover art
by artist Nicholas Jainschigg.
Heart
of Whitenesse (forthcoming)
And you can always go to Bookfinder
and get copies of any one of these: Dozen Tough Jobs,
Going Home Again, Howard who? :twelve outstanding stories of
speculative fiction, Night of the Cooters, Strange Monsters of
the Recent Past, Strange Things in Close Up, & Them Bones