{"product_id":"howard-who-stories-paperback","title":"Howard Who?: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward Waldrop\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge R. R. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you.\"--From the Introduction by George R.R. Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * What if the dodo wasn't extinct after all?\u003cbr\u003e * What if sumo wrestlers could defeat their opponents with the power of the mind?\u003cbr\u003e * What if Izaak Walton and John Bunyan went fishing for Leviathan in the Slough of Despond?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever published in paperback, long out of print, and extremely collectible, \u003cb\u003eHoward Who?\u003c\/b\u003e was Waldrop's seminal debut collection. If you haven't read Waldrop before, you're in for a treat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best Waldrops tend to mix the humorous and wistful.... Italo Calvino once said that he was known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself. Much the same could be said of Howard Waldrop. You never know what he'll come up with next, but somehow it's always a Waldrop story. Read the work of this wonderful writer, a man who has devoted his life to his art -- and to fishing.\u003cbr\u003e--Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA charming collection.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in print after so many years, \u003ci\u003eHoward Who?\u003c\/i\u003e remains a terrific collection of short stories. There is nobody else alive writing stories as magnificently strange, deliriously inventive, and utterly wonderful as Howard Waldrop.\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eMetrobeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by George R. R. Martin.\u003cbr\u003e The Ugly Chickens\u003cbr\u003e Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen\u003cbr\u003e Ike at the Mike\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla\u003cbr\u003e . . . the World, as we Know't\u003cbr\u003e Green Brother\u003cbr\u003e Mary Margaret Road-Grader\u003cbr\u003e Save A Place in the Lifeboat for Me\u003cbr\u003e Horror, We Got\u003cbr\u003e Man-Mountain Gentian\u003cbr\u003e God's Hooks\u003cbr\u003e Heirs of the Perisphere\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Howard Waldrop: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClever, humorous, idiosyncratic, oddball, personal, wild, and crazy.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWise and funny.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn authentic master of gonzo sf and fantasy.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErudite and gonzo.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaldrop subtly mutates the past, extrapolating the changes into some of the most insightful, and frequently amusing, stories being written today, in or out of the science fiction genre.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Houston Post\/Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man's a national treasure \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resident Weird Mind of his generation, he writes like a honkytonk angel.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout the Author: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Waldrop, \u003c\/b\u003e born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include \u003ci\u003eThem Bones\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Dozen Tough Jobs, \u003c\/i\u003e and the collections \u003ci\u003eAll About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Night of the Cooters, and Going Home Again.\u003c\/i\u003e He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette The Ugly Chickens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Night of the Cooters, and Going Home Again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 6.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760144941344,"sku":"9781931520188","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2cded6001b969cb76c3968941736d58e.webp?v=1780172760","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/howard-who-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}