Howard Waldrop
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Værker af Howard Waldrop
Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005 (2007) 91 eksemplarer
Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader - Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003 (2008) 54 eksemplarer
Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? [short fiction] 8 eksemplarer
Man-Mountain Gentian 7 eksemplarer
Heirs of the Perisphere [short fiction] 7 eksemplarer
"…The World As We Know't." 6 eksemplarer
The Lions Are Asleep This Night [novelette] 6 eksemplarer
The King of Where-I-Go [novelette] 6 eksemplarer
The Sawing Boys [Short Story] 5 eksemplarer
Avast Abaft! 5 eksemplarer
Mary Margaret Road-Grader [short fiction] 5 eksemplarer
Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me 4 eksemplarer
God's Hooks! 4 eksemplarer
Calling Your Name 4 eksemplarer
US (short story) 4 eksemplarer
Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen 4 eksemplarer
You Could Go Home Again 4 eksemplarer
Mr. Goober's Show 4 eksemplarer
H'ard Starts: The Early Waldrop 4 eksemplarer
Heart of Whitenesse [short story] 4 eksemplarer
H'Ard Starts: The Early Waldrop 4 eksemplarer
My Sweet Lady Jo (short story) 3 eksemplarer
Sun Up 3 eksemplarer
Ike at the mike (short story) 3 eksemplarer
One Horse Town 3 eksemplarer
Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole 3 eksemplarer
Fair Game {short story} 3 eksemplarer
Green Brother 2 eksemplarer
Occam's Ducks {short story} 2 eksemplarer
Horror, We Got 2 eksemplarer
The Effects of Alienation {short story} 2 eksemplarer
The Dynasters Vol. I On the Downs 2 eksemplarer
Flatfeet! {short story} 2 eksemplarer
Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla 2 eksemplarer
The Wolf-man Of Alcatraz 2 eksemplarer
"Winter Quarters" 2 eksemplarer
Household Words; or, The Powers-That-Be {short story} 2 eksemplarer
El Castillo de la Perseverancia {short story} 2 eksemplarer
He-We-Await 1 eksemplar
What Makes Heironymous Run? 1 eksemplar
Helpless, Helpless 1 eksemplar
Scientifiction {short story} 1 eksemplar
Dream Factories The Past 1 eksemplar
Why Did? {short story} 1 eksemplar
Radio Pictures 1 eksemplar
The Passing of the Western 1 eksemplar
Dream Factories: The Future 1 eksemplar
Hoover's Men [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Major Spacer in the 21st Century 1 eksemplar
The Search for Tom Purdue [Excerpt] 1 eksemplar
The Other Real World 1 eksemplar
Ninieslando 1 eksemplar
Thin on the Ground 1 eksemplar
A Voice And Bitter Weeping 1 eksemplar
Willow Beeman 1 eksemplar
"D = R x T" 1 eksemplar
Why Then Ile Fit You 1 eksemplar
The Latter Days Of The Law 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004) — Bidragyder — 529 eksemplarer
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Bidragyder — 358 eksemplarer
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Bidragyder — 307 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Bidragyder — 241 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Bidragyder — 234 eksemplarer
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Bidragyder — 151 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Bidragyder — 111 eksemplarer
Paragons: Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Crafts (1996) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition (1705) — Forord — 79 eksemplarer
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Sixth Annual Collection (1978) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Seventh Annual Collection (1977) — Bidragyder — 58 eksemplarer
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1995) — Bidragyder — 55 eksemplarer
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Bidragyder — 22 eksemplarer
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 3 (May 1972) (1972) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Tenth Annual Collection (1981) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 14 [December 1991] (1991) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 15 [Mid-December 1991] (1991) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
Subterranean Magazine Fall 2010 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Waldrop, Howard
- Andre navne
- Malone, Edward
Malone, Sir Simon
Wyatt, F. D. (with Steve Utley) - Fødselsdato
- 1946-09-15
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Houston, Mississippi, USA
- Bopæl
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Organisationer
- Turkey City Writer's Workshop
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2021)
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- Also by
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- Medlemmer
- 1,730
- Popularitet
- #14,858
- Vurdering
- 3.7
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- ISBN
- 51
- Sprog
- 4
- Udvalgt
- 15
- Trædesten
- 48
Others are whimsy based on a what-if idea such as what if time travellers arrived in a world based on the works of the great artists, or what if all the 1950s low budget films about alien invasions, featuring Martians, giant ants/crabs/gila monsters etc etc came true. They all invade at once and overwhelm the Earth, with the story told from the POV of an American army soldier who has decided to make a final stand. This variety of story was based on an interesting idea but left me with a so-what feeling ultimately. They were clever conceits, but had no real character identification.
The best story in the collection is probably the one about the old man hired to hunt a Wild Man. It's obvious early on that this is Ernest Hemingway and this is some allegory of his ultimate fate.
The stories are not badly written but I found quite a few of them baffling. I don't see the point of, for example, rewriting the Labours of Hercules from Greek mythology, but setting them in the southern states of America in the late 1920s with Hercules as a convict doing his final year as community service. And where I knew the subject, such as ancient Egypt, this only served to highlight the deficiencies: Waldrop tells us in his intro to He-We-Await (most of the stories have intros about their conception) that he spent six months researching Eyptian history, but unfortunately this didn't allow him to avoid a 'clanger' about the goddess Sekhmet which took me right out of the story. Two of the characters are named after Sekhmet and portrays her as a hippopotamus, but she was a lion goddess, (Tarowset was the hippopotamus deity). Quite a lot of historical research is on prominent display, such as a rather fanciful account of mumification - I've never read that the priest who cut into the body was chased by the others with rocks and I don't think the practice of mummification would have survived long - not the thousands of years it did - if it put someone's life at stake every time it was done! That sequence is straight infodump to display his research as he then tells us the Pharoah in question was not mummified and there are other sequences like that in the story which add absolutely nothing. The ending also comes over as a damp squib as well as being predicatable for most of the story.
I think these stories either appeal to a reader or not - they are "Marmite" fiction - and I'm obviously not the audience for them.… (mere)