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HOWARD WHO?
Howard WaldropAugust 1, 2006
ISBN 1931520186 · $14
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-- Your Local Bookstore"Back in print after so many years, Howard Who? remains a terrific collection of short stories. There is nobody else alive writing stories as magnificently strange, deliriously inventive, and utterly wonderful as Howard Waldrop."
-- MetrobeatIntroduction by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire): "If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you. Bet you can't read just one."
The third entry in our Peapod Classics reprint line is a twentieth-anniversary celebration edition of Howard Waldrop's erudite, gonzo, wistful, funny, and beautifully written debut collection of short stories.
Waldrop has a capacious, encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, Mexican wrestlers, world wars, long-dead film stars, oddball television shows, pulp serials, radio plays, fairy tales, scientific expeditions, extinct species, and knock-knock jokes.
- What if the dodo wasn't extinct after all?
- What if sumo wrestlers could defeat their opponents with the power of the mind?
- What if Izaak Walton and John Bunyan went fishing for Leviathan in the Slough of Despond?
Acclaimed cult author Waldrop's stories are sophisticated, magical recombinations of the stuff our pop-culture dreams are made of. Open this book and encounter jazz singers, robotic cartoon ducks, nosferatu, angry gorillas, and, of course, the dodo.
Never published in paperback, long out of print, and extremely collectible, Howard Who? was Waldrop's seminal debut collection. If you haven't read Waldrop before, you're in for a treat.
Table of Contents
Introduction by George R. R. Martin.
The Ugly Chickens
Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen
Ike at the Mike
Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla
. . . the World, as we Know't
Green Brother
Mary Margaret Road-Grader
"Save A Place in the Lifeboat for Me
Horror, We Got
Man-Mountain Gentian
God's Hooks
Heirs of the PerisphereAuthor appearances. Past appearances:
PaMay 26-28 -- Conquest, Kansas City, Missouri
August 11-13 -- Armadillocon, Austin, TX
November 2-5 -- World Fantasy Convention, Austin, TX
Links
- Waldrop's site.
- Three Ways of Looking at Howard Waldrop (and Then Some) By Jed Hartman, et alia.
- Other books: Dream Factories And Radio Pictures; Heart of Whitenesse; Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations.
- The Howard Waldrop Bibliography -- a current listing of first publication for Howard Waldrop's short fiction kept by Jonathan Strahan.
- Partial Bibliography for Howard Who?
- Waldrop's occasional blog at The Infinite Matrix.
Praise for Howard Waldrop:
"Clever, humorous, idiosyncratic, oddball, personal, wild, and crazy."
-- Library Journal"Wise and funny."
-- Publishers Weekly"An authentic master of gonzo sf and fantasy."
-- Booklist"Erudite and gonzo."
-- Science Fiction Weekly"Waldrop subtly mutates the past, extrapolating the changes into some of the most insightful, and frequently amusing, stories being written today, in or out of the science fiction genre."
-- The Houston Post/Sun" The man's a national treasure!"
-- Locus"The resident Weird Mind of his generation, he writes like a honkytonk angel."
-- Washington Post Book WorldAbout the Author:
Howard Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Night of the Cooters, and Going Home Again. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette "The Ugly Chickens."
George R.R. Martin is the author of the bestselling Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. His fiction has won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy Award, Stoker, and Locus Awards. He worked on the TV shows The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Credits
- Cover art by Kevin Huizenga
- Download cover for print.
- Download author photo for print.
Author photo credit: TK.Publication history
First published as Howard Who? Twelve Outstanding Stories of Speculative Fiction by Doubleday in 1986.
Also by Howard Waldrop:
Novels
The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 with Jake Saunders (1974)
Them Bones (1984)Collections
Howard Who? (1986, 2006)
All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past: Neat Stories (1987)
Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories (1990)
Going Home Again (1997) Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003)
Heart of Whitenesse (2005)Chapbooks
A Dozen Tough Jobs (1989)
A Better World's in Birth (2003)Nonfiction
Dream Factories and Radio Pictures (2003)Forthcoming
I, John Mandeville
The Moon World
Moving Waters
