Howard Waldrop

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Howard Waldrop (born September 15, 1946 in Houston , Mississippi ) is an American science fiction writer.

Life and works

Waldrop attended from 1962 to 1965 high school in Arlington , Texas , and then studied until 1974 at the University of Texas there . During his student days, he worked as a typesetter for the Arlington Daily News , as a copywriter and served in the US Army from 1970 to 1972 . From 1975 to 1980 he was a tester at Dynastat in Austin, a company specializing in quality measurement of audio transmission.

Waldrop primarily writes short stories, often dealing with the subject of alternative history . Including his most famous tale The Ugly Chickens (dt. The ugly chicken ) that an alternative version of extinction of the Dodo says. The narrative won both the Nebula Award (1980) and the World Fantasy Award (1981). His short story Custer's Last Jump (1976), which he wrote with Steven Utley , with whom he worked several times, was also nominated for the Nebula Award. The title alludes to Custer's Last Stand , George Armstrong Custer's famous last battle on Little Big Horn . The story, which is presented as a historical text, is about exactly this battle, except that here the Sioux do not ride Mustangs , but attack in monoplane . The story belongs together with Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole (1977, also with Steven Utley, German as Schwarz wie der Abgrund, from Pol zu Pol ) to the forerunners of steampunk .

Many other stories from Waldrop have been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo Awards. His collection of short stories, Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories , won the Locus Award in 1992 . In his short story Ike at the Mike there is a fictional encounter between jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong and Dwight D. Eisenhower , who here bears the features of clarinetist Benny Goodman .

bibliography

Novels
  • The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 (1974, with Jake Saunders)
  • Them Bones (1984)
Collections
  • Howard Who? (1986)
  • All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (1987)
  • Night of the Cooters (1990)
  • Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (1991)
  • Going Home Again (1997)
  • Dream Factories and Radio Pictures (2001)
  • Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003)
  • Heart Of Whitenesse (2005)
  • The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On) / The King of Where-I-Go (2006)
  • Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005 (2007)
  • Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2003 (2008)
  • Horse of a Different Color: Stories (2013)
Short stories
  • Lunch box (1972)
  • A Voice and Bitter Weeping (1973, with Jake Saunders)
  • Mono No Aware (1973)
  • My Sweet Lady Jo (1974)
  • Time and Variance (1974, with Jake Saunders and Steven Utley )
  • Custer's Last Jump (1976, with Steven Utley)
  • The Fall of the Occident (1976)
  • Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me (1976)
  • Sun Up (1976, with AA Jackson, IV)
  • Unsleeping Beauty and the Beast (1976)
  • Sic Transit ...? A Shaggy Hairless-Dog Story (1976, also as Willow Beeman , with Steven Utley)
  • Men of Greywater Station (1976, with George RR Martin )
    • English: No rescue for Greywater Station. In: George RR Martin: Songs of Stars and Shadows. Goldmann Science Fiction # 23331, 1979, ISBN 3-442-23331-3 .
  • Mary Margaret Road Grader (1976)
  • Moamrath in Hollywood: Cthu'lablanca and Other Lost Screenplays (1976, also as Cthu'lablanca and Other Lost Screenplays , 1988)
  • Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole (1977, with Steven Utley)
    • German: Black as the abyss, from pole to pole. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 19. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 3944, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30872-7 .
  • The Adventure of the Grinder's Whistle (1977)
  • Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla (1977)
    • German: Dr. Hudson's mysterious gorilla. In: Michel Parry (ed.): King Kong's rivals. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 76), 1979.
  • Horror, We Got (1979)
  • All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past (1980)
  • Billy Big-Eyes (1980)
  • In the Shubbi Arms (1980, with Steven Utley)
  • The Ugly Chickens (1980)
    • English: the ugly chickens. In: HJ Alpers (Ed.): Kopernikus 6. Moewig Science Fiction # 3575, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3575-0 . Also called: The Ugly Chicken. In: Terry Carr (ed.): The most beautiful science fiction stories of the year: Volume 1. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4021, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30928-6 .
  • "... The World As We Know't" (1982)
  • Green Brother (1982)
  • God's Hooks! (1982)
  • Ike at the Mike (1982)
  • Apprenticeship (1983)
  • Man-Mountain Gentian (1983)
  • Helpless, Helpless (1984)
  • What Makes Heironymous Run? (1985)
  • Flying Saucer Rock & Roll (1985)
  • Heirs of the Perisphere (1985)
  • Fair Game (1986)
  • The Lions Are Asleep This Night (1986)
  • Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! (1987)
  • Night of the Cooters (1987)
  • He-We-Await (1987)
  • French Scenes (1988)
  • Wild, Wild Horses (1988)
  • Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance? (1988, also as Do Ya, Do Ya Wanna, Wanna Dance?, 1991)
  • Hoover's Men (1988)
  • A Dozen Tough Jobs (1989)
  • The Passing of the Western (1989)
  • Fin de Cyclé (1990)
  • The Effects of Alienation (1992)
  • You * Could * Go Home Again (1993)
  • Household Words; or, The Powers-That-Be (1994)
  • Why Did? (1994)
  • The Sawing Boys (1994)
  • Occam's Ducks (1995)
  • El Castillo de la Perseverancia (1995)
  • Flatfeet! (1996)
  • Scientifiction (1997)
  • Heart of Whitenesse (1997)
  • US (1998)
  • Mr. Goober's Show (1998)
  • The Dynasters: Vol. 1: On the Downs (1999)
  • London, Paris, Banana ... (2000)
  • Our Mortal Span (2000)
  • Winter Quarters (2000)
  • Major Spacer in the 21st Century (2001)
  • One Horse Town (2001, with Leigh Kennedy )
  • The Other Real World (2001)
  • Calling Your Name (2003)
  • The Latter Days of the Law (2003, with Bruce Sterling )
  • Why Then Ile Fit You (2003)
  • A Better World's in Birth! (2003)
  • D = R × T (2003)
  • The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz (2004)
  • "The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew ..." (2005)
  • The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On) (2005)
  • The King of Where-I-Go (2005)
  • Thin, on the Ground (2006)
  • Crab (2006, with Steven Utley)
  • Children's fairy tales (2007)
  • Avast, Abaft! (2008)
  • Frogskin Cap (2009)
  • Ninieslando (2010)
  • The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls (2013)
  • Till the Cows Come Home to Roost (2018)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian M. Stableford: Science Fact and Science Fiction: an Encyclopedia. Routledge, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-97460-8 , sv Steampunk, p. 502 f.
personal data
SURNAME Waldrop, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Mississippi