© Howard Waldrop Howard Waldrop was born in Mississippi in 1946 and has lived most of his life in Texas except for about six years when he lived along the Stillaguamish River in Washington state. He made his first professional sale in 1970. He was nominated for two Nebulas in 1977 for his stories "Custer's Last Jump" (written with Steven Utley) and "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" and has won both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for "The Ugly Chickens" (1980).

Howard Waldrop Links Howard Waldrop Website ISFDB Bibliography SF Site Review: Heart of Whitenesse SF Site Review: A Better World's In Birth! SF Site Review: Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations SF Site Review: Dream Factories and Radio Pictures SF Site Review: Going Home Again

Collections Heart Of Whitenesse (2005) Subterranean Press It contains the following stories: The Other Real World Mr. Goober's Show London, Paris, Banana ... Our Mortal Span Major Spacer in the 21st Century! The Dynasters Us Winter Quarters Heart Of Whitenesse Will Shaxper D=R X T Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003) Golden Gryphon Press A collection of eight collaborative stories, it contains the following stories: One Horse Town • Leigh Kennedy & Howard Waldrop Custer’s Last Jump • Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop Nuts and Bolts and I • Howard Waldrop (essay) A Voice and Bitter Weeping • Buddy Saunders & Howard Waldrop Men of Greywater Station • George R. R. Martin & Howard Waldrop Nuts and Bolts and II • Howard Waldrop (essay) Willow Beeman ["Sic Transit...?, A Shaggy Hairless-Dog Story"] • Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop The Latter Days of the Law • Bruce Sterling & Howard Waldrop Nuts and Bolts and III •Howard Waldrop (essay) Sun’s Up! ["Sun Up"] • A. A. Jackson, IV & Howard Waldrop Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole • Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop Dream Factories and Radio Pictures (2003) Wheatland Press It contains the following stories: Dream Factories: The Past Fin de Cyclé Flatfeet! Occam’s Ducks Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me The Passing of the Western The Effects of Alienation All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past Dream Factories: The Future French Scenes Heirs of the Perisphere A Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the Sea... Radio Pictures Hoover’s Men Mr. Goober’s Show Major Spacer in the 21st Century Going Home Again (1997) St. Martin's Press With a foreword by Lucius Shepard, it contains the following stories: You Could Go Home Again Household Words, or, The Powers-That-Be The Effects of Alienation The Sawing Boys Why Did? Occam’s Ducks Flatfeet! El Castillo de la Perseverancia Scientifiction Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories (1991) Mark V. Ziesing The book, a collection of reprinted stories, was done as a co-production with Ursus, an imprint of Arnie Fenner, the designer of many Ziesing books. It collects the following stories: Night of the Cooters French Scenes The Passing of the Western The Adventure of the Grinder's Whistle Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! The Annotated Jetboy Hoover's Men Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? Wild, Wild Horses Fin de Cyclé Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (1991) Ace Books It is a composite book containing the stories from All About Strange Monsters Of The Recent Past with the addition of A Dozen Tough Jobs.

Chapbooks A Better World's in Birth (2003) Golden Gryphon Press In the mid-19th century, a Communist revolution succeeded in central Europe. Now some 20 years later, there are reports of appearances by the martyrs of the revolution. Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, and Richard Wagner are haunting Communist Europe. Comrade Rienzi, from the Peoples' Department for Security, is tapped as the fellow to figure out why these ghosts are appearing and who may be behind it all. Novels A Dozen Tough Jobs (1989) Mark V. Ziesing Suppose the ancient world of meddling gods who interfere in human affairs is reset in northern Mississippi, circa 1926. It is still a world of classic good-ol'-boys, of Southern belles, of children of ex-slaves picking cotton and "bowin' and scrapin'," and of chain gangs and rumrunners. Rump parties rule the populace and the KKK flourishes. Now add into that mix the Graeco- Roman legend of The Twelve Labors of Hercules. Waldrop takes aim at the corruption and arbitrary injustice of that place and time. It is a marvelous story told with much humour and sadness, much joy and despair. Them Bones (1984) Ace Books Four divergent alternate histories form the core of this novel. One closely resembles our own and another where the southwestern Amerindian mound-builders still exist. The third is from a near future where man has ravaged the planet in a flurry of radiation, germ warfare and chemical pollution. The three come together to tell the tale of a military expedition travelling to the past to alter the future. Expecting Louisiana in the mid-1930s, they ended up in a world where Aztecs sacrifice humans to their gods on the banks of the Mississippi and Arabs explored America by steamboat. Christianity and the Roman Empire never existed. The complex threads come together, converging in a poignant story that transcends all timelines' differences. The Texas-Israeli War, 1999 (1974) Ballantine In 1983, the Treaty of Oslo led to the effective elimination of the world's nuclear arsenals but countries relpaced them with chemical and biological weapons. In 1992, an series of small wars begins when Ireland salts British water with LSD. By their end, approximately 90% of the world's population is dead and Israel ends up being the sole industrial nation. In the US, a Texan civil war is underway and the land-hungry Israelis have signed on as mercenaries for both sides, trading military skills and weapons for promises of land and money. One of their assignments is to rescue the President of the US, kidnapped by the Texas Rangers. Collections Strange Things in Close-Up: The Nearly Complete Howard Waldrop (1989) Time Warner Books UK It is a composite book containing the stories from Howard Who? and All About Strange Monsters Of The Recent Past (minus the Gardner Dozois introduction) in one volume. All about Strange Monsters of the Recent Past: Neat Stories (1987) Ursus Imprints With an introduction by Gardner Dozois and an afterword by Lewis Shiner, it contains the following stories: All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past Helpless, Helpless Fair Game What Makes Heironymous Run? The Lions Are Asleep This Night Flying Saucer Rock and Roll He-we-Await Howard Who?: Twelve Outstanding Stories of Speculative Fiction (1986) Doubleday With an introuction by George R. R. Martin, it contains the following stories: 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 Perisphere

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