Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:16:43 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Another self serving Waldrop review quote
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

The SciFi Weekly review of my new Waldrop collection is scheduled to
appear on the 3rd.

Another nugget from the review:

"One trap in writing alternative histories is the gratuitous story, the
'what if Attila the Hun had howitzers' kind of tale. A somewhat better
alternative, in an age when ignorance of history abounds, is
concentrating on major historical figures and events, ones familiar to
most people, or at least likely to be known about by many readers.
Howard Waldrop usually ignores these alternatives in favor of focusing
on more obscure, although still important and influential, cultural
figures and social movements. In the process, he offers insight into
some of history*s more overlooked streams and also manages to draw
parallels between his imagined worlds and 'reality,' while capturing
both the undertone of regret and the sense of precariousness that seem
essential elements of alternate history."

Oh Great Cthulhu, let the InterTubes hum with orders for the book!

mjw