Horse of a Different Color Stories
"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, The 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 "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."