Howard Waldrop: Masters of Science Fiction
Published by Centipede Press, Lakewood, 2025
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Lakewood: Centipede Press:, 2025. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, New in dust jacket, 1048 pp. Cover artwork by: Jim and Ruth Keegan This edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by artists Jim and Ruth Keegen and intro-writer Paul Di Filippo. First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED, Limited, New in dust jacket.
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- Title
- Howard Waldrop: Masters of Science Fiction
- Author
- Waldrop, Howard
- Publisher
- Centipede Press, Lakewood
- Publication year
- 2025
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1613473842
- ISBN 13
- 9781613473849
- Illustrator
- Jim and Ruth Keegan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Noted for the delightful quirkiness of his conceptions, the intricate depths of his researches and his assured and compelling voice — which varied from utterly cosmopolitan to that of a Southern Comfort-cured bard — Waldrop produced, over a career of nearly sixty years, such wild tales as “Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen” (a conflation of Nazis and Nosferatu); “Mary Margaret Road-Grader” (a post-collapse drama of big-hearted men and women and their big machines, transferred recently to the medium of cinema by George R. R. Martin, Howard’s childhood pal); “Ike at the Mike” (a jet-propelled alternate history involving Elvis Presley, Dwight Eisenhower, and a cast of hundreds); and “The Ugly Chickens” (a man’s obsessive search for an extinct beast that might yet live).
Yet Waldrop’s stories were not merely filled with verbal pyrotechnics and gonzo brainstorms. He plumbed emotional depths that few other writers could handle. “You Could Go Home Again,” his account of the early modernist writer Thomas Wolfe (Wolfe is granted years of life beyond our historical record), captures Wolfe’s trademark deep melancholy and nostalgia perfectly. Likewise, “Flatfeet!” takes the famously one-note and two-dimensional Keystone Kops and invests them with the joys and fears and passions of fully rounded humans. And “Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?” vividly deploys all the trauma of a twentieth high school reunion in a way instantly recognizable, before tipping over into the outrageously fantastic. Similar effects are found in “Flying Saucer Rock & Roll.”
The homey, way-out fictions created meticulously and passionately by Howard Waldrop would arrive, while he yet lived, at long intervals that left his legion of fans always eager and itching for the next mind-blowing delivery, however distant. But the lucky purchaser of this collection will experience no such frustrations, as they sit down to enjoy the concentrated wealth of fables that surged from the utterly unique Howard Waldrop.
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