Howard Waldrop

"Billy Big-Eyes" © The Berkley Showcase # 1, ed. V. Schochet, 1980 --novelette : 1981 Locus /14 --/ cool sf novella --/ wonder award --/ idea award "Black As The Pit, From Pole To Pole" (with Steven Utley) © New Dimensions # 7, 1977 --/ cool sf novella --/ wonder award --/ style award ---------------------------------------------- "Custer's Last Jump" (with Steven Utley) © Universe # 6, 1976 --novelette : 1977 Nebula --novelette : 1977 Locus /7 Famous alternate history tale: General Custer, commander of the United States' elite paratrooper brigade, meets his end at the hands of Crazy Horse and a squadron of vintage Confederate monoplanes at the Battle of Little Bighorn - as told alternately in the style of the official Army report, Collier's Magazine, and an unpublished excerpt from Mark Twain's journal. Somebody even compared it to Borges. review: 8-Sep-06 (read in 1987) ---------------------------------------------- "Flying Saucer Rock-N-Roll" © OMNI, Jan 1985 --short story : 1986 Hugo --short story : 1986 Nebula --short story : 1986 Locus /8 --/ cool sf story --/ idea award "God's Hooks!" © Universe # 12, 1982 Howard, Who?, 1986 --short story : 1983 Nebula --short story : 1983 Locus /4 "Heirs Of The Perisphere" © Playboy, Jul 1985 Howard, Who?, 1986 --short story : 1986 Nebula --short story : 1986 Locus /25 --/ cool sf novella --/ wonder award --/ style award "The King of Where-I-Go" © Sci Fiction, Nov 2005 "Mary Margaret Road-Grader" © Orbit # 18, 1976 Howard, Who?, 1986 --short story : 1977 Nebula --short story : 1977 Locus /9 --/ cool sf story --/ wonder award "One-Horse Town" (with Leigh Kennedy) © Sci Fiction, Mar 2001 --short story : 2002 Locus Poll "The Other Real World" © Sci Fiction, Apr 2001 --novelette : 2002 Locus /15 --/ cool apocalyptic sf story "Our Mortal Span" © Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. E. Datlow, 2000 --short story : 2001 Locus /14 "The Ugly Chickens" © Universe # 10, 1980 Howard, Who?, 1986 --novelette : 1981 Hugo --novelette : 1981 Nebula W --short fiction : 1981 World Fantasy W --novelette : 1981 Locus /5 --short fiction : 1981 Balrog --novelette : 1999 Locus All-Time Poll /46 (tie) "US" © Event Horizon, Oct 1998 --short story : 1999 Locus /13 --short form : 1999 Sidewise "Winter Quarters" © Sci Fiction, Aug 2000 --short story : 2001 Locus /8 ---------------------------------------------- "The Wolf-man of Alcatraz" © Sci Fiction, Oct 2004 --short fiction : 2004 British SF --short story : 2005 Locus Poll --/ cool f story Another werewolf story? Yawn... Another Howard Waldrop story? Well, let me get out a cigar and let's discuss it at length, gentlemen. His stories are an acquired taste, but they are truly "his own" creations, much like R. A. Lafferty stories are. As Chris Barnes puts it: "That solidity doesn't lie just in the voice of the story, but in the details. The cell door isn't just a door, it's a Diebold vault door with a chrome-steel lock. The wolf-man, Bob Howlin (great name!), doesn’t just chew gum, he chews Beeman's Black Jack. Howlin's fascination with lunar astronomy is a masterful touch, and the reference to 17th Century fantasies about lunar voyagers is pure Waldrop. As is the unexpected and poignant ending." Link to story: here review: 9-Oct-06 (read in 2004) ----------------------------------------------

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