Michael Walsh at Old Earth Books has just published Things Will Never Be The Same, the selected short fiction of Howard Waldrop. It’s an incredibly wonderful book, filled with many strange, different, oddball, but always terrific stories. You can order it from Old Earth Books, and if you do so before 1 Apri, the shipping’s free. See? Already you’re wondering why you haven’t bought it, aren’t you. Go on then, you do it here.
Oh, and if you don’t believe me, go see what Pulitzer winner Michael Dirda had to say about the book over at The Washington Post.
If I have the various Waldrop collections from across the years – including the Eidolon and Wheatland ones – then is there anything I don’t have?
Oh, had a look at the tracklisting (I seriously almost wrote this – ok, the table of contents) and I’m pretty sure there isn’t. No doubt it’s a great introduction to the man though!
Peter, the first two stories haven’t been collected in one of Howard’s major collections until now. Plus, I’m pretty sure, there are brand-new forewards or afterwards for each story.