Scan barcode
A review by archergal
Howard Who? by Howard Waldrop
4.0
It's really hard to classify these stories. The most famous one (The Ugly Chickens) is about dodos. There's a bit of alternate history (Ike & Patton as jazz musicians); there's straight up fantasy, where a sort of deity, in the guise of Rufus T. Quackenbush, sends unlikely heroes to try to save the day. Sumo wrestlers push with their minds. Mad scientists do mad scientist things. Izaak Walton fishes in the Slough of Despond. Et cetera.
They're not really anything like traditional fantasy stories, but they're fun. It's interesting to try to figure out where he's going with a particular story, kind of in the way the roman a clef novels are fun.
You gotta like quirky to really appreciate these. That works for me.
They're not really anything like traditional fantasy stories, but they're fun. It's interesting to try to figure out where he's going with a particular story, kind of in the way the roman a clef novels are fun.
You gotta like quirky to really appreciate these. That works for me.