Howard V. Hendrix

Biography

Fiction

• Standing Wave
• Better Angels
• Empty Cities of the Full Moon
• The Labyrinth Key
• Spears of God

• "Wittgenstein's Sin", Mosaic, Spring 1981
• "Bad/Night/Vision", Mosaic, Spring 1983
• "Song of the USD", Mosaic, Spring 1984
• "In the Smoke" Writers of the Future #2 March 1986
• "The Rasta Man", Leading Edge #12, Spring 1987
• "The High, Hard Way: A Mountain Prayer" and "Song for a Deaf Woodsman" as well as "A Lesson in Perspective," "A Day of the Comet," "Avatars" and "Hole in the Road" in The Mystic Muse, Summer 1987, Fall 1987, Spring 1988, and Summer 1988 issues
• "Doctor Doom Conducting", Aboriginal SF, Sept-Oct 1987
• "Chameleon on a Mirror", EOTU, February 1988
• "The Last Impression of Linda Vista", Aboriginal SF, July 1988
• "In-Flight Entertainment", EOTU, August 1988
• "The Farm System", Full Spectrum 1, Bantam Books, Fall 1988
• "The Notorious Sitting Judge of Bullfrog County", Tales of the Unanticipated #4, Fall/Winter 1988
• "The Art of Memory", EOTU, June 1989
• "Desert Rainstorm", Wide Open, Fall 1989
• "The Voice of the Dolphin in Air", Starshore #2, July/Fall 1990
• Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3, EOTU Group, July 1990
• The Unfinished Sky" Starshore #4, Spring 1991
• "Singing the Mountain to the Stars", Aboriginal SF, Jan Feb 1991
• "Almost Like Air", Amazing Stories, September 1991
• "Chameleon on a Mirror", Amazing Stories, January 1992
• "Beholding Aphrodite", Tales of the Unanticipated, April 1992
• "A Fine Old Tradition", Pulphouse #19
• "At the Shadow of a Dream", Aboriginal SF, SpAng 1993
• "Ah! Bright Wings", Full Spectrum 4, Bantam Boolcs, April 1993
• "Tombe", Expanse, January 1994
• "Gingko", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1994
• The Vertical Fruit of the Horizontal Tree, Talisman Press, Oct. 1994
• "The Music of What Happens", Full Spectrum 5, Bantam Books, 1995
• "If These Walls Could Talk". The Outer Limits. Volume One, 1996
• “Incandescent Bliss” in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 2002
• “Once Out of Nature” in Microcosms, ed. Gregory Benford, DAW Books, 2004
• “The Self-Healing Sky” in Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, March 2005
• “Waiting For Citizen Godel” in Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, Nov 2005
• “All’s Well at World’s End” in Future Shocks, Roc Books, January 2006
• “Palimpsest” in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, September 2007
• “Knot Your Grandfather’s Knot” in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, March 2008
• “Flame of Branches” in vMeme21
• “Monuments of Unageing Intellect” in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact

• Nonfiction

• "'To luf hem wel, and leve hem not': The Neglected Humor of Gawain's 'Anti-feminism."' Comitatus Vol. 14 : 38-48.
• "Reasonable Failure: Pearl Considered as a Self-Consuming Artifact of 'Gostly Porpose."' Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 4/L~II : 458-466.
• "The Thing of Shapes to Come: Science Fiction as Anatomy of the Future." In Stormwarnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future, Ed. George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
• The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of the Apocalyptic Tradition From Langland To Milton. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. July 1990.
• "Those Wandring Eyes of His': Watching Guyon Watch the Naked Damsels Wrestling." Assays VII. Ed. Peggy A. Knapp and Gary F. Waller. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992.
• "Dual Immortality, No Kids: The Dink Link Between Birthlessness and Deathlessness in Science Fiction." In Immortal Engines. Ed. by Slusser, Westfahl, and Rabkin. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
• "Making the Pulpmonster Safe for Demography: OMNI Magazine and the Gentrification of Science Fiction." In Science Fiction and Market Realities. Ed. by Westfahl, Slusser, and Rabkin. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
• "Baby's Next Step: Uberkinder and the Burden of the Future. In Nursery Realms -- Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Ed. by Westfahl and Slusser. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

• Awards

• Abraham L. Polonsky Award winner, 1983, for "Bad/Night/Vision"
• Writers of the Future Third Quarter First Place, 1986, for "In the Smoke"
• Nebula Award nominee, Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986-1994
• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award nominee, 1994, for "At the Shadow of a Dream"
• Pushcart Prize nominee, 1989, for "The Art of Memory"

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