Horse of a Different Color: Stories

✍ Scribed by Waldrop, Howard

• Book ID: 107807632
• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781618730732

✦ Synopsis

"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, Washington Post

"Waldrop subtly mutates the past, extrapolating the changes into some of the most insightful, and frequently amusing, stories being written today." - The Houston Post/Sun

"The most startling, original, and entertaining short story writer in science fiction today." - George R. R. Martin

"It always feels like Christmas when a new Howard Waldrop collection arrives." - Connie Willis

Howard Waldrop's stories are keys to the secrets of the stories behind the stories . . . or perhaps the stories between 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.

Howard Waldrop , born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs , and the collections Howard Who? ,Night of the Cooters , Other Worlds , Better Lives , and Things Will Never Be the Same. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette "The Ugly Chickens."