Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:42:25 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Waldropian news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Awaiting me upon my retail from te Big Apple were copies of the latest =
Waldrop collection: Heart of Whitenesse.=20

Two reviews:

>From Publishers Weekly
World Fantasy Award*winner Waldrop offers 10 quirky, sometimes outrageous =
speculative stories in this wise and funny collection, each with a lively =
and informative afterword. If J.D. Salinger had written SF, Holden =
Caulfield would have been one of the gang in "The Other Real World," a =
teenage view of the Cuban missile crisis with a more somber outcome than =
the actual one. "The Dynasters" imagines an unusual scenario in which the =
phony Piltdown Man (and Piltdown Woman) are real. A three-headed robot in =
the offbeat "Our Mortal Span" runs into trouble in a theme park called =
Story Book Land when he takes fairy tales too seriously. In the marvelous =
title story, about playwright Christopher Marlowe, "Will Shaxper" is only =
a bit player. "Us," a gripping tale of alternative history, explores the =
possibilities had Charles Lindbergh Jr. lived. Waldrop is a razzle-dazzle =
hoot.

>From Booklist
The inimitable Waldrop, an authentic master of gonzo sf and fantasy, =
returns with some of his most recent short fiction, along with notes that =
enlighten about the transformation in sf markets as they move from paper =
to the Web, and imply that Waldrop has traveled extensively, at least if =
the number of places he movingly portrays accurately suggests personal =
knowledge. The collection-opening "Dynasters" takes its departure from the =
idea that Piltdown Man really existed. The title story features Christopher=
 Marlowe and ice festivals on the Thames. "Winter Quarters" delves deeply =
into the extinction of the mammoth. "The Other Real World" is such a rich =
exploration of 1950s popular culture that it needs many pages of footnotes,=
 and "D=3DR X T" may be the only sf story about pedal cars. There is only =
one Howard Waldrop, and he is quite as irresistible as ever, at least in =
small doses (it is probably just as well for his reputation that he isn't =
a novelist).

750 copies, all signed by author and jacket artist Doug Potter: $40.00.  =
274 pages.
For the well healed, there's the 26 copy lettered edtion in a traycase for =
a paltry $150.00

Drop me a note OFFLIST if you want me to hold one for you for the next =
WSFA meeting(s)

mjw