Michael Walsh’s Old Earth Books is publishing the second volume of The Selected Fiction of Howard Waldrop this September. Titled Other Worlds, Better Lives, this volume covers Waldrop’s longer works, from 1989 to 2003. The seven novellas in this volume include:
“A Dozen Tough Jobs”
“Fin de Cyclé”
“You Could Go Home Again”
“Flatfeet!”
“Major Spacer in the 21st Century!”
“The Other Real World”
“A Better World’s in Birth!”
The 272-page book will be released as a $15 trade paperback and a $45 hardcover.
Old Earth Books published the first volume, Things Will Never Be the Same, in March 2007. It contained 16 of Waldrop’s shorter stories. Reviewing it in The Washington Post, Michael Dirda said “If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our own very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino.”
Howard Waldrop’s web site is at this link. His first published story, “Lunchbox,” appeared in Analog in 1972. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy awards for “The Ugly Chickens” (1980), and has since been nominated for seven more Nebulas and seven Hugos.