Howard Waldrop

Howard Waldrop ( born September 15, 1946 in Houston, Mississippi) is an American science fiction writer.

Life and works

The longest period of his life he spent in Texas, where he studied and graduated from the University of Texas made ​​in English. Waldrop writes primarily short stories often deal with the issue of alternative history. So also his most famous story, The Ugly Chickens (Eng. The ugly chicken), which tells an alternative version of extinction of the dodo. The story won both the Nebula Award (1980 ) and the World Fantasy Award (1981). Many more stories Waldrop were nominated for the Nebula and the Hugo Award. His short story collection Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories was awarded the 1992 Locus Award. In his story, Ike and the Mike there is a fictitious encounter of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong with Dwight D. Eisenhower, who bears the features of clarinetist Benny Goodman's here.

Bibliography

Novels

Stories

(only Hugo and Nebula Award nominations )