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Howard Waldrop is an American SF writer of mostly short stories.▼
[[File:Howard Waldrop.jpg|thumb|300px|Howard Waldrop, at ConQuesT 38, 2007]]
▲'''Howard Waldrop''' is an American SF writer of mostly short stories.
Wikipedia says of him, "His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical", which is unnecessarily tentative -- a Waldrop story is a story that you either get or you don't. If you do get it, it's awesome.
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* "The Ugly Chickens", in which a researcher discovers that the dodo survived the extinction of the native population in the form of a flock owned by a farmer in the American backwoods. Won the [[Nebula Award]] and the World Fantasy Award.
* "Night of the Cooters", in which one of the alien war machines from [[
* "Ike at the Mike", in which [[Elvis Presley]] is a senator and [[Dwight Eisenhower]] a famous musician.
* "Man Mountain Gentian", the tale of the world's greatest zen sumo wrestler.
He has contributed to the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series (he wrote "Thirty Minutes Over Broadway!", the story that set up the whole premise) and to the [[Turkey City Lexicon]].
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* [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman]]: "Ike at the Mike"
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]
* [[Zeppelins
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