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Howard Who?
| Alternate Title: | Strange Things in Close-Up: The Nearly Complete Howard Waldrop |
| Author: | Howard Waldrop |
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Small Beer Press, 2006 Doubleday, 1986 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."--From the Introduction by George R.R. Martin
Acclaimed 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 of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp serials, and fairy tales is put to good use in these sophisticated re-combinations of oddball television shows, radio plays, scientific expeditions, extinct species, knock-knock jokes, and questions like these:
* What if the dodo wasn't extinct after all?
* What if sumo wrestlers could defeat their opponents with the power of the mind?
* What if Izaak Walton and John Bunyan went fishing for Leviathan in the Slough of Despond?
Never published in paperback, long out of print, and extremely collectible, Howard Who? was Waldrop's seminal debut collection. If you haven't read Waldrop before, you're in for a treat.
Table of Contents:
- Howard Who? - essay by George R. R. Martin
- The Ugly Chickens - (1980) - novelette
- Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen - (1976) - shortstory
- Ike at the Mike - (1982) - shortstory
- Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla - (1977) - shortstory
- "...The World As We Know't." - (1982) - shortstory
- Green Brother - (1982) - shortstory
- Mary Margaret Road-Grader - (1976) - shortstory
- Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me - (1976) - shortstory
- Horror, We Got - (1979) - shortstory
- Man-Mountain Gentian - (1983) - shortstory
- God's Hooks! - (1982) - shortstory
- Heirs of the Perisphere - (1985) - shortstory
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