Howard Waldrop, RIP

 

Noted fisherman and writer died Jan. 14 at 77. Them Bones was set in Louisiana at various points in history and the paperback anthology has his famous story, The Ugly Chickens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Waldrop

Them Bones - Howard Waldrop

 

One of my favorite science fiction novels and one of my favorite science fiction writers. Mr. Waldrop is from Mississippi and is an avid fisherman. Them Bones is an alternate history/time travel novel partly set in Louisiana in the late 20s, and also concerning the mound building cultures in the ancient past of Louisiana, which I have a real interest in. Two of the mound sites in Louisiana are the oldest dated mounds in North America. One is the popular tourist attraction, Poverty Point, but the other is much older, and is on private land, so it hasn't attracted much attention, Watson Brake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_Bones_(novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Waldrop

https://www.tor.com/2010/06/08/history-inside-out-howard-waldrops-lemgthem-boneslemg/

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-mound-builders.html

https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/2020/11/ancient-mounds.html