World Fantasy Life Achievement Award winner Howard Waldrop’s career highlights include classic stories like “Night of the Cooters,” “Mary Margaret Road-Grader,” “Heirs of the Perisphere,” the Nebula-winning “The Ugly Chickens,” and dozens of other fantastic tales that have delighted readers for over fifty years.But where did he come from? Did Howard Waldrop spring forth fully formed, as if from the forehead of Zeus, with his first professional story in 1972? Or were his origins mor...

A baker's dozen of Waldrop's best short stories about movie and TV.Dream Factories and Radio Pictures collects twelve of Howard Waldrop's movie (“dream factories”) and television ("radio pictures") stories from his first four collections, as well as a new article and a new story.The stories — about personalities, history, projections, alternatives, guesses, and the effects they had and keep on having as they and we evolve — are accompanied by Waldr...

A Locus Award–winning collection featuring the story "Night of the Cooters," produced by George R. R. Martin as a short film starring Vincent D'Onofrio.Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author Howard Waldrop wrote amazing short fiction that ran the gamut from alternative history to pulpy space adventures. He was able to turn his meticulous research into compulsively readable tales featuring iconic literary figures, aliens, and comic-book-style heroes, c...

This collection of tightly crafted, highly imaginative short stories employs surrealist, satirical, and fantastical devices to explore politics, class, and gender. From creatively homicidal bioengineering to counter the stresses of climbing the corporate ladder, to a woman who loses a sock at the laundromat and finds she's missing a bit of her soul, these science-fiction gems showcase an award-winning writer's compelling vision of the universe. Computer pioneers, cross-country skiers, and ...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 57, July 2022Lezli Robyn, EditorLauren Rudin, Assistant EditorZ.T. Bright, Slush ReaderTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by Kimberly Unger, Angela Slatter, Mica Scotti Kole, Mike Resnick, Elaine Midcoh, George R.R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, Antony PaschosJean Marie Ward Interviews Wesley ChuSerialization: Act One by Nancy KressColumns by: Grego...

Darrell Schweitzer interviews seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Robert J. Sawyer, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Howard Waldrop.

Stories unavailable in their original collections.Cult author.Texas favorite.

“If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you.”—From the Introduction by George R.R. MartinAcclaimed 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.The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Waldrop’s capacious, encyclopedic knowledge o...

This book has one problem:it's not nearly long enough. Sure, it's chock full of great stories by the best short fiction writer of his generation, modern classics like "The Ugly Chickens" and "Flying Saucer Rock n Roll" and "Heart of Whitenesse" and many more. Think of it as the best tasting menu in literature. Try this, then go get more.

Howard Waldrop's stories are keys to the secret world of the stories behind the stories . . . or perhaps stories between the known stories. From The Wolfman of Alcatraz” to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from "The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew" to the Vancean richness of a "Frogskin Cap," this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our May 2014 issue contains:Original Fiction by Matthew Kressel ("The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye"), Maggie Clark ("A Gift in Time"), and E. Catherine Tobler ("Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds").Classic stories by Howard Waldrop ("Night of the Cooters") and Andy Duncan ("Be...

Journeys Beyond the Fantastical Horizon offers a fresh exploration of the magical and the otherworldly. From sentient spaceships to anxiety goblins, this anthology explores the breadth and depth of speculative fiction originally published in Galaxy's Edge magazine, including Aurora, British Fantasy, BSFA, Hugo, Nebula and Nommo nominated and winning stories. No two pieces are alike, yet all these tales best represent the diversity and range of the genre, challengi...