Gain Other Worlds, Better Lives: Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003 Depicted By Howard Waldrop Shown As Interactive EBook

pieces by this aclaimed writer, Howard Waldrop is an American short story writer who deserves a much larger audience than he has, My review of his new short fiction collection is up at the SciFi, com site, sitelinkhere. A belated selection for the r/FantasyBingo for the 'Five SFF Short Stories' square, Waldrop takes something familiar and with meticulous research turns it into a weird / alternate history SFF story, These stories are some of his best from, I don't know of anybody else who can consistently do this to such a high quality three of these stories were nominated for major SFF awards.
I was thankful that each story had an afterword though, as there were several things I missed, Highly recommended.
mostly reprints, couple of superb alt, history gems Decent collection of Waldrop's longer stories, I really like this author, but sadly, these stories did not resonate with me, I got the impression that a lot of this work was the authors tribute to scifi and personal influences from his life.

Waldrops best reissue collection yet, From the Greek myths gone southern gothic in “A Dozen Tough Jobs” to the Francophile steampunk of “Fin De Cycle”, these stories are filled with wild humor and bizarre factoids.
How have I remained ignorant of Howard Waldrop's work This man is a masterful storyteller, with a wild

imagination that creates stories worth telling.


With the exception of the first story, which is a retelling of thelabors of Hercules, set in's Mississippi, the stories are mostly fanciful alternate histories.
What if Thomas Wolfe had survived his brain operation and lived to join the Technocracy political movement, helping it enough to win the Presidency of the US inThat story, by the way, takes place on the zeppelin USS Ticonderoga betwern Tokyo and Suez.


Other stories wonder what would have happened if Richard Wagner had succeeded in leading the socialist revolution he in real life started in Dresden inwhat if, instead of Emile Zola, it was Georges Melies, Erik Satie, Marcel Proust, and Pablo Picasso who took up the cause of Capt.
Alfred Dreyfuss not in print, but on film what if all those annoying little kids froms monster movies were in their late teens/earlys during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Its tempting to say that these stories are so intelligent, of course they're not going to be popular.
But Science fiction is supposed to be about intelligent stories, So why is Howard Waldrop so relatively unknown Novellalength pieces, more slight whimsy than SFF, set in 's, 's, 's USA with a patina of nostalgia and no discernable story.
A collection of Waldrops longer works from, I actually read about half of this book because I'd read two or three of the stories herein in different collections, Waldrop is a master of the short form and he never writes down to his readers, I discovered his work in the last ten years or so, I really can only imagine reading it before the internet became a constant presence and allowed easy research, I'm quite wellread, but Waldrop will still stump me with historic and cultural knowledge and send me scurrying to Google to look into the background of his stories.


Most of Waldrop's work is some sort of althistory, This isn't hard SF. Now and then it verges on fantasy, But it's always incredibly intelligent, "A Dozen Tough Jobs" sets the Labors of Hercules in the deep South in thes, "You Could Go Home Again" finds a world in which FDR dies and Huey Long is elected President in, . . but not for long. In "The Other Real World" we follow the children froms SF films dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis,

This is the kind of stuff that Waldrop gives us, Interesting. Well researched. Unlike what you get from anyone else, He doesn't always hit a home run the last story "A Better World's in Birth!" didn't work for me at all but they are always interesting.
sitelink booklikes. com/post Another excellent collection of short stories by the estimable Howard Waldrop, This man is truly a master of the short form, Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction, Waldrops stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies, classical mythology, and rock n roll music.
Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction, Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies, classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music.
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