Night of the Cooters More Neat Stuff Author:Howard Waldrop Short story collection which takes "What if..." ideas and twists them around until the reader says, "What the HELL?!?!" Stories that will A) knock you back in your seat with the sheer g-force of imaginative acceleration; and B) make you wonder how or where a top-notch writing-engineer like Waldrop receives his divinely ... more »insane ideas. Waldrop's fiction is a smorgasboard of delightful details. It activates circuits in your brain you didn't realize you had: alternate history, pure fantasy, plain old daily drive of weird, this collection's got it.
Contents:
Do Ya, Do Ya Wanna, Wanna Dance? (1988) • shortfiction;
Wild, Wild Horses (1988) • shortstory;
Fin de Cyclé (1990) • novelette;
Night of the Cooters [War of the Worlds] (1987) • shortstory;
French Scenes (1988) • novelette;
The Passing of the Western (1989) • shortstory;
The Adventure of the Grinder's Whistle (1977) • shortfiction;
Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! [Wild Cards] (1987) • novelette;
Hoover's Men (1988) • shortstory;
A Dozen Tough Jobs (1989) • novella;
Take my Tough Job, Please • essay by Howard Waldrop.