Howard Waldrop (1946–2024)
Autor de Them Bones
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Créditos de la imagen: Permission of Locus Publications www.locusmag.com
Obras de Howard Waldrop
Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005 (2007) 91 copias
Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader - Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003 (2008) 55 copias
Man-Mountain Gentian 7 copias
"…The World As We Know't." 6 copias
The King of Where-I-Go [novelette] 6 copias
The Sawing Boys [Short Story] 5 copias
Avast Abaft! 5 copias
Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me 4 copias
Heart of Whitenesse [short story] 4 copias
Calling Your Name 4 copias
US (short story) 4 copias
You Could Go Home Again 4 copias
Mr. Goober's Show 4 copias
God's Hooks! 4 copias
My Sweet Lady Jo (short story) 3 copias
Sun Up 3 copias
Ike at the mike (short story) 3 copias
One Horse Town 3 copias
Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole 3 copias
Fair Game {short story} 3 copias
Green Brother 2 copias
Occam's Ducks {short story} 2 copias
Horror, We Got 2 copias
The Dynasters Vol. I On the Downs 2 copias
Flatfeet! {short story} 2 copias
Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla 2 copias
The Wolf-man Of Alcatraz 2 copias
"Winter Quarters" 2 copias
He-We-Await 1 copia
What Makes Heironymous Run? 1 copia
Helpless, Helpless 1 copia
Scientifiction {short story} 1 copia
Dream Factories The Past 1 copia
Why Did? {short story} 1 copia
Radio Pictures 1 copia
The Passing of the Western 1 copia
Dream Factories: The Future 1 copia
Hoover's Men [short fiction] 1 copia
Major Spacer in the 21st Century 1 copia
The Other Real World 1 copia
Ninieslando 1 copia
Thin on the Ground 1 copia
A Voice And Bitter Weeping 1 copia
Willow Beeman 1 copia
"D = R x T" 1 copia
Why Then Ile Fit You 1 copia
The Latter Days Of The Law 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 367 copias
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contribuidor — 315 copias
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Contribuidor — 151 copias
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Contribuidor — 114 copias
Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition (1705) — Prólogo — 81 copias
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Seventh Annual Collection (1977) — Contribuidor — 59 copias
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1995) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contribuidor — 36 copias
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXIX, No. 3 (May 1972) (1972) — Contribuidor — 21 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 14 [December 1991] (1991) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 15 [Mid-December 1991] (1991) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Subterranean Magazine Fall 2010 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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- Malone, Edward
Malone, Sir Simon
Wyatt, F. D. (with Steve Utley) - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1946-09-15
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- 2024-01-14
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- World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2021)
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Others are whimsy based on a what-if idea such as what if time travellers arrived in a world based on the works of the great artists, or what if all the 1950s low budget films about alien invasions, featuring Martians, giant ants/crabs/gila monsters etc etc came true. They all invade at once and overwhelm the Earth, with the story told from the POV of an American army soldier who has decided to make a final stand. This variety of story was based on an interesting idea but left me with a so-what feeling ultimately. They were clever conceits, but had no real character identification.
The best story in the collection is probably the one about the old man hired to hunt a Wild Man. It's obvious early on that this is Ernest Hemingway and this is some allegory of his ultimate fate.
The stories are not badly written but I found quite a few of them baffling. I don't see the point of, for example, rewriting the Labours of Hercules from Greek mythology, but setting them in the southern states of America in the late 1920s with Hercules as a convict doing his final year as community service. And where I knew the subject, such as ancient Egypt, this only served to highlight the deficiencies: Waldrop tells us in his intro to He-We-Await (most of the stories have intros about their conception) that he spent six months researching Eyptian history, but unfortunately this didn't allow him to avoid a 'clanger' about the goddess Sekhmet which took me right out of the story. Two of the characters are named after Sekhmet and portrays her as a hippopotamus, but she was a lion goddess, (Tarowset was the hippopotamus deity). Quite a lot of historical research is on prominent display, such as a rather fanciful account of mumification - I've never read that the priest who cut into the body was chased by the others with rocks and I don't think the practice of mummification would have survived long - not the thousands of years it did - if it put someone's life at stake every time it was done! That sequence is straight infodump to display his research as he then tells us the Pharoah in question was not mummified and there are other sequences like that in the story which add absolutely nothing. The ending also comes over as a damp squib as well as being predicatable for most of the story.
I think these stories either appeal to a reader or not - they are "Marmite" fiction - and I'm obviously not the audience for them.… (más)