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Howard Waldrop

(1946 - 2024)

Howard Waldrop was an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections All 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."

Awards: WFA (2021), Nebula (1981) see all

Novels

   The Texas-Israeli War (1974) (with Jake Saunders)
   Them Bones (1984)
   A Dozen Tough Jobs (1989)
   You Could Go Home Again (1993)
   The Search for Tom Purdue (2001)
   Heart of Whitenesse (2005)

Collections

   Going Home Again (1985)
   Howard Who? (1986)
   Strange Monsters Of The Recent Past (1987)
   Strange Things in Close-up (1989)
   Night of the Cooters (1991)
   Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations (2003) (with others)
   Dream Factories and Radio Pictures (2003)
   Things Will Never Be the Same (2006)
   Other Worlds, Better Lives (2008)
   Horse of a Different Color (2013)
   H'Ard Starts: The Early Waldrop (2023)

Novellas and Short Stories

Custer's Last Jump (1996) (with Steven Utley)

Books containing stories by Howard Waldrop

Journeys Beyond the Fantastical Horizon (2024)
The Best of Galaxy's Edge: 1
edited by
Lezli Robyn

Galaxy's Edge Magazine: Issue 61 (2023)
March 2023
(Galaxy's Edge Magazine, book 61)
edited by
Lezli Robyn

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

More books

Awards

	2021 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
	1992 Locus Award for Best Collection : Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories
	1981 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : The Ugly Chickens
	1981 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : The Ugly Chickens

Award nominations

	2014 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Horse of a Different Color: Stories
	2009 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Other Worlds, Better Lives
	2008 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Things Will Never Be the Same
	2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Heart of Whitenesse
	2006 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The King of Where-I-Go
	2005 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz
	2004 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations
	2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Dynasters Vol. 1: On the Downs
	1999 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History (nominee) : US
	1998 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Going Home Again
	1996 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History (nominee) : You Could Go Home Again
	1996 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : You Could Go Home Again
	1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories
	1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Fin de Cycle
	1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : A Dozen Tough Jobs [short story]
	1990 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : A Dozen Tough Jobs
	1989 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?
	1989 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?
	1989 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?
	1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : He-We-Await
	1988 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Strange Monsters Of The Recent Past
	1988 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Night of the Cooters [short story]
	1987 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Lions Are Asleep This Night
	1987 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Lions Are Asleep This Night
	1987 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Howard Who?: Twelve Outstanding Stories of Speculative Fiction
	1987 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Strange Monsters Of The Recent Past
	1986 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Heirs of the Perisphere
	1986 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Flying Saucer Rock and Roll
	1986 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Flying Saucer Rock and Roll
	1985 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Them Bones
	1985 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Them Bones
	1984 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Them Bones
	1983 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : God's Hooks!
	1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Ike at the Mike
	1981 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Ugly Chickens
	1977 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Mary Margaret Road-Grader
	1977 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Custer's Last Jump [short story]
	1977 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen

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