{"product_id":"9781618730091","title":"Howard Who?: Stories","description":"\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\u003e\"The 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\u003e\"A charming collection.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Back 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\u003e\"Clever, humorous, idiosyncratic, oddball, personal, wild, and crazy.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wise and funny.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An authentic master of gonzo sf and fantasy.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Erudite and gonzo.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Waldrop 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\u003e\"The man's a national treasure!\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The resident Weird Mind of his generation, he writes like a honkytonk angel.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165562388720,"sku":"9781618730091","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618730091_p0.jpg?v=1772546775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618730091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}