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Sto caricando le informazioni... Howard Who?: Stories (Peapod Classics) (originale 1986; edizione 2006)di Howard Waldrop (Autore), George R. R. Martin (Introduzione)
Informazioni sull'operaHoward Who? di Howard Waldrop (1986)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I’m keeping the book because of The Ugly Chickens, so I’m rating it accordingly instead of trying to rate all 12 individually and determine the rating by mathematical formulae. It’s such a relatable story of human beings accidentally doing something very good and very important, and then accidentally undoing it. ( ) Disappointing. Some neat ideas, but poorly developed and smothered in sexism and an attitude I have seen is all too typical in white males from Texas. Frustrating, because I coulda sworn I recently enjoyed a novel by him, and that's why I was looking for more of his work and chose this... but I can't find any such novel on my shelves.... A few very good stories, some okay stories, a number of bad stories - typical short story book. The Ugly Chickens - About the last of the Dodo's - Hilarious and Sad all at the same time. Der Untergang des Abenlandesmenschen - Dracula story set in Nazi Germany. Ike at the Mike - I liked it - alternate universe setting, reverses sets up Eisenhower as a famous jazz clarinetist, and Elvis Presley as a Senator. Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla - Mad scientist switches Ape and Human Brain. Enjoyable, a bit cliched (or maybe it was the original) "... The World, As We Know't." - Victorian Science Experiment gone horribly horribly wrong. A good story, rather horrific in the outcome. Green Brother - In which a medicine man grandfather saves his grandson in the grandest way possible - Good story with an unexpected savior. Mary Margaret Road-Grader - a tale set in a post apocalyptic tale of how the last of the large machines are used. Story about how society is changing, and maybe for the better. Good story. Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me. - I didn't understand this story. I get that it was about the fate of Buddy Holly, but I'm not exactly sure who these people were. It might be that I'm not of the right generation. Horror, We Got - This story is horrible. Its sad, its despicable, it is disgusting. I know that there is satire involved, a bit like Jonathan Swift's "A Simple Proposal", but still, not a good story. Man-Mountain Gentian - Sumo wrestling, Zen style. Another story I didn't really get - it was well written, but the story didn't interest me. God's Fish - story about a really big fish and religion. Uninteresting. Heirs of the Perisphere - Another post-apocalyptic story about robots trying to find there place in the world. Sad, but also ends on a happy note. There's a reason people call Waldrop a master. Not a single story out of the dozen in this collection failed to satisfy. They're the real deal, with imaginative plots and spot-on characterizations. Not to mention the risks he takes on theme and subject matter that pay off. When I finished the story "Horror, We Got" I thought to myself, Oh no, he didn't!. You'll either have to take my word, or check it out yourself. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."--From the Introduction by George R.R. Martin Acclaimed 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. The 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: * What if the dodo wasn''t extinct after all? * What if sumo wrestlers could defeat their opponents with the power of the mind? * What if Izaak Walton and John Bunyan went fishing for Leviathan in the Slough of Despond? Never published in paperback, long out of print, and extremely collectible,Howard Who? was Waldrop''s seminal debut collection. If you haven''t read Waldrop before, you''re in for a treat. "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." --Michael Dirda,Washington Post "A charming collection." --Los Angeles Times "Back in print after so many years,Howard Who? 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." --Metrobeat Table of Contents Introduction by George R. R. Martin. The Ugly Chickens Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen Ike at the Mike Dr. Hudson''s Secret Gorilla . . . the World, as we Know''t Green Brother Mary Margaret Road-Grader "Save A Place in the Lifeboat for Me Horror, We Got Man-Mountain Gentian God''s Hooks Heirs of the Perisphere Praise for Howard Waldrop: "Clever, humorous, idiosyncratic, oddball, personal, wild, and crazy." --Library Journal "Wise and funny." --Publishers Weekly "An authentic master of gonzo sf and fantasy." --Booklist "Erudite and gonzo." --Science Fiction Weekly "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." --The Houston Post/Sun "The man''s a national treasure!" --Locus "The resident Weird Mind of his generation, he writes like a honkytonk angel." --Washington Post Book World About the Author: Howard Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books includeThem Bones andA Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collectionsAll About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Night of the Cooters, and Going Home Again. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette "The Ugly Chickens." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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