Howard V. Hendrix

Howard Vincent Hendrix is an American scholar and science fiction writer. He was born in Cincinnati. He is a cousin of blues musician Mike Tetrault. He is author of the novels "Lightpaths" and "Standing Wave" and a member of the editorial board of "Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval Studies".

Controversy

Hendrix created a stir among science fiction and fantasy fans and authors with a LiveJournal posting on April 12 2007. [http://community.livejournal.com/sfwa/10039.html Hendrix's "webscabs" post on LiveJournal] ] The purpose of the posting was to explain, in part, why he would not be seeking the presidency of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America after having served as its vice president. He attacked authors who offer their works for free on the internet, either as written works, or recorded as podcasts, comparing them to scabs. His comments have drawn criticism from a number of other authors, such as Michael A. Stackpole [ [http://www.stormwolf.com/thesecrets/podcasts/tsvse01.mp3 Audio response by Michael A. Stackpole to Hendrix] ] , John Scalzi [ [http://community.livejournal.com/sfwa/11289.html Response to Hendrix by John Scalzi] ] , and David Wellington [ [http://www.brokentype.com/davidwellington/2007/04/message_from_a.html Response to Hendrix by David Wellington] ] , and resulted in International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.

Reviews

Awards

*Nebula Award Nominee (several times), Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986-1994.

*Pushcart Prize Nominee, 1989, for "The Art of Memory."
*Recipient of First Prize in Writers of the Future Science Fiction Writing Contest.

*Received Polonsky Fiction Prize, 1983, for "Bad/Night/Vision".

elected bibliography

Fiction

Novels

* "Lightpaths" (1997)
* "Standing Wave" (1998)
* "Better Angels" (1999)
* "Empty Cities of the Full Moon" (2001)
* "The Labyrinth Key" (2004)
* "Spears of God" (2006)

hort fiction and poetry

*"If These Walls Could Talk" (novelette). "The Outer Limits". Volume One, 1996.

*"The Music of What Happens" (novelette), "Full Spectrum 5", Bantam Books, 1995.

*"The Vertical Fruit of the Horizontal Tree" (novella chapbook), Talisman Press, Oct. 1994.

*"Gingko" (poem), "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", November 1994.

*"Tombe" (short story), "Expanse", January 1994.

*"Ah! Bright Wings" (novelette), "Full Spectrum 4", Bantam Boolcs, April 1993.

*"At the Shadow of a Dream" (short story), "Aboriginal SF", SpAng 1993.

*Second Place, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

*"A Fine Old Tradition" (short story), "Pulphouse" #19 (scheduled).

*"Beholding Aphrodite" (short story), "Tales of the Unanticipated", April 1992.

*"Chameleon on a Mirror" (short story), "Amazing Stories", January 1992.

*"Almost Like Air" (short story), "Amazing Stories", September 1991.

*"Singing the Mountain to the Stars" (novelette), "Aboriginal SF", Jan Feb 1991.

*The Unfinished Sky" (short story) "Starshore" #4, Spring 1991.

*Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 ("mini-anthology" of several short stories previously published during the 1987-1989 per od), EOTU Group, July 1990.

*"The Voice of the Dolphin in Air" (short story), "Starshore" #2, July/Fall 1990.

*"Desert Rainstorm" (poem), "Wide Open", Fall 1989.

*"The Art of Memory" (short story), EOTU, June 1989.

*"The Notorious Sitting Judge of Bullfrog County" (short story), "Tales of the Unanticipated" #4, Fall/Winter 1988.

*"The Farm System" (short story), "Full Spectrum 1", Bantam Books, Fall 1988.

*"In-Flight Entertainment" (short story), EOTU, August 1988.

*"The Last Impression of Linda Vista" (short story), "Aboriginal SF", July 1988.

*"Chameleon on a Mirror" (short story), EOTU, February 1988.

*"Doctor Doom Conducting" (short story), "Aboriginal SF", Sept-Oct 1987.

*"The High, Hard Way: A Mountain Prayer" and "Song for a Deaf Woodsman"

(poems) as well as "A Lesson in Perspective," "A Day of the Comet,"

*"Avatars" and "Hole in the Road" (short stories) in "The Mystic Muse", Summer 1987, Fall 1987, Spring 1988, and Summer 1988 issues.

*"The Rasta Man" (short story), "Leading Edge" #12, Spring 1987.

*"In the Smoke" (short story and prize-winner) "Writers of the Future" #2 March 1986.

*"Song of the USD" (poem), "Mosaic", Spring 1984.

*"Bad/Night/Vision" (experimental short story), "Mosaic", Spring 1983.

*"Wittgenstein's Sin" (poem), "Mosaic", Spring 1981.

Book

*"The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of the Apocalyptic Tradition From Langland To Milton". Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. July 1990.

Articles

*"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.

*"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: Unniversity of Georgia Press, 1996.

*"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.

*"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.

*"'To luf hem wel, and leve hem not': The Neglected Humor of Gawain's 'Anti-feminism."' Comitatus Vol. 14 (1983): 38-48.

*"Reasonable Failure: Pearl Considered as a Self-Consuming Artifact of 'Gostly Porpose."' Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 4/L~II (1985): 458-466.

References

External links

* [http://www.howardvhendrix.com/ The Fantastic Worlds of Howard V. Hendrix]
* [http://papersky.livejournal.com/320114.html/ Celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day]