A baker’s dozen of Waldrop’s best short stories about movie and TV.
Dream Factories and Radio Pictures collects twelve of Howard Waldrop’s movie (“dream factories”) and television (‘radio pictures’) stories from his first four collections, as well as a new article and a new story.
The stories — about personalities, history, projections, alternatives, guesses, and the effects they had and keep on having as they and we evolve — are accompanied by Waldrop’s original (in every sense of the word) introductions full of ‘Strange But True facts uncovered while researching them.” The collection includes: ’Fin de Cyclé, ” ‘Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me, ” “French Scenes, ” ‘Heirs of the Perisphere, ” ‘Hoover’s Men, ” ‘Major Spacer in the 21st Century, ” and more.
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Fin de Cyclé
Flatfeet!
Occam’s Ducks
Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen
Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me
The Passing of the Western
The Effects of Alienation
All about Strange Monsters of the Recent Past
French Scenes
Heirs of the Perisphere
Interlude: A Summer Place, On the Beach, Beyond the Sea . . .
Hoover’s Men
Mr. Goober’s Show
Major Spacer in the 21st Century
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Howard Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and Readercon Award-winner A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections Howard Who?, All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Locus Award-winner 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.” In 2021 Waldrop was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award.
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