{"product_id":"9781618730732","title":"Horse of a Different Color: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino. . . . You never know what he'll come up with next, but somehow it's always a Waldrop story.\"—Michael Dirda, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\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.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Houston Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most startling, original, and entertaining short story writer in science fiction today.\"—George R. R. Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It always feels like Christmas when a new Howard Waldrop collection arrives.\"—Connie Willis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Waldrop's stories are keys to the secrets of the stories \u003ci\u003ebehind\u003c\/i\u003e the stories . . . or perhaps the stories \u003ci\u003ebetween\u003c\/i\u003e the stories everyone else knows. From \"The Wolfman of Alcatraz\" to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from \"The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew\" to the sixth Marx brother's story of a vaudeville act tracking down the Holy Grail, this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness.\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\u003eHoward Who?\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003e Night of the Cooters\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eOther Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eBetter Lives\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eThings Will Never Be the Same\u003c\/i\u003e . He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette \"The Ugly Chickens.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Beer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052783714544,"sku":"9781618730732","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781618730732_p0.jpg?v=1763854381","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781618730732","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}