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Chris interviews Howard Waldrop at Fencon VI.

Show Notes

We got some of the names wrong in the conversation and they are corrected here in the show notes.

Winner of the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup. Comes with a $1000 prize. Condition: Must spend it all and have nothing to show for it. Awarded by Michael Moorcock.

Won the Nebula and World Fantasy Award for his short story “The Ugly Chickens.”

Unique voice. Comparable to Cordwainer Smith & R.A. Lafferty. And Avram Davidson.

Anthology: Howard Who?

Admired by fellow writers such as George RR Martin (GRRM) and Bradley Denton.
Anthologies of select works:

Things Will Never Be The Same (short)
Other Worlds Better Lives (long)

Comparison of novella A Dozen Tough Jobs to film Oh, Brother Where Art Thou

What would Howard recommend to new readers?

“Night of the Cooters”
“God’s Hooks”
Writes longhand and uses a manual typewriter. Deciding on what works best for you.

Don Delilo, ER Doctorow use typewriters but have computers.

Howard & George Show
Howard & Gardner Show

Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser. We discuss Issek of the Jug featured in the short story “Lean Times in Lankhmar”.

Currently working on The Moon World (a steampunk tale)

Norman Borlaug was the father of the green revolution.

Search for Tom Purdue (for Subterranean)

Wherein we discuss GRRM’s April Fool’s joke on Howard.

Links

Howard Waldrop Homepage
http://www.sff.net/people/waldrop/

Other Worlds, Better Lives – Selected Long Fiction 1989 – 2003
Things Will Never Be the Same: Selected Short Fiction 1980 – 2005
http://www.oldearthbooks.com/howard_waldrop.htm