“Do you like Tom Clancy? If so, you'll like this book [The Labyrinth Key]. It's that simple. Any other comparison fails to capture the essence of Howard V. Hendrix's writing and this tale in particular.”
Stuart Jaffe
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Biographics
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
CREATIVE WRITING/MASS AUDIENCE (novels and collected works)
Spears of God (novel), Del Rey Books/Random House. December 2006.
The Labyrinth Key (novel), Del Rey Books/Random House. April 2004. (Also published in Spanish, 2005. Forthcoming Romanian edition, 2008.)
Möbius Highway (e-book short story collection), Scorpius Digital Books, October 2001.
Empty Cities of the Full Moon (novel), Ace Books/Penguin Putnam, August 2001 hardcover; August 2002 trade paperback.
Better Angels (novel), Ace Books/Penguin Putnam, October 1999 hardcover; November 2000 trade paperback.
Standing Wave (novel), Ace Books/Penguin Putnam, September 1998 paperback original. (Published in French, 2002, and in Hebrew in 2003.)
Lightpaths (novel), Ace Books/Penguin Putnam, September 1997 paperback original. (Published in French in 2001.)
Testing, Testing 1,2,3 (chapbook short story collection) from EOTU Group, 1990.
CREATIVE WRITING/MASS AUDIENCE (shorter works)
“Knot Your Grandfather’s Knot” (short story) in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 2008 (forthcoming)
“The Hollow Earthlings” in Aberrant Dreams, 2008 (forthcoming).
“Palimpsest” (short story) in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, September 2007.
“All’s Well at World’s End” (short story) in Future Shocks, Roc Books, January 2006.
“Waiting For Citizen Godel” (short story) in Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, Nov 2005.
“The Self-Healing Sky” (short story) in Aeon Speculative Fiction Magazine, March 2005.
“Once Out of Nature” (short story) in Microcosms, ed. Gregory Benford, DAW Books, 2004.
“Incandescent Bliss” (short story) in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 2002.
If These Walls Could Talk (novella) in The Outer Limits, Volume 1. Prima Publishing 1996.
“The Music of What Happens” (novelette) in Full Spectrum 5, Bantam Books, 1995.
The Vertical Fruit of the Horizontal Tree (novella chapbook) from Talisman Press, 1994.
“Gingko” (poem) in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, November 1994.
“Tombé” (short story) in Expanse, January 1994.
“Ah! Bright Wings” (novelette) in Full Spectrum 4, Bantam Books, 1993.
“At the Shadow of a Dream” (short story) in Aboriginal SF, Spring 1993.
“Beholding Aphrodite” (short story) in Tales of the Unanticipated, April 1992.
“Chameleon on a Mirror” (short story) in Amazing Stories, January 1992.
“Almost Like Air” (short story) in Amazing Stories, September 1991.
“The Unfinished Sky” (short story) in Starshore #4, Spring 1991.
“Singing the Mountain to the Stars” (novelette) Aboriginal SF, Jan/Feb 1991.
“The Voice of the Dolphin in Air” (short story) in Starshore #2, Fall 1990.
“Desert Rainstorm” (poem) in Wide Open, Fall 1989.
“The Art of Memory” (short story) in EOTU, June 1989.
“The Notorious Sitting Judge of Bullfrog County” (short story) in Tales of the Unanticipated, Fall/Winter 1988.
“The Farm System” (short story) in Full Spectrum 1, Bantam Books, Fall 1988.
“In-Flight Entertainment” (short story) in EOTU, August 1988.
“The Last Impression of Linda Vista” (short story) in Aboriginal SF, July 1988.
“Doctor Doom Conducting” (short story) in Aboriginal SF, Sept-Oct 1987.
“The High, Hard Way: A Mountain Prayer,” “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) in Leading Edge #12, Spring 1987.
“In the Smoke” (short story and prize winner) in Writers of the Future Volume 2, 1986.
“Song of the USD” (poem) in Mosaic, Spring 1984.
“Bad/Night/Vision” (short story and prize winner) in Mosaic, Spring 1983.
“Wittgenstein’s Sin” (poem) in Mosaic, Spring 1981.
NONFICTION (book-length technical)
Reliable Rain: A Practical Guide to Landscape Irrigation (nonfiction how-to), co- authored with Stuart Straw, Taunton Press, April 1998.
JOURNALISM
Dragon in the Land: People and Mega-fire in California. Twelve-episode creative nonfiction series commissioned by Highway 168 Fire Safe Council. Published June-November 2007 in six local and regional newspapers in the foothill and mountain regions of central California.
Op-ed pieces, numerous newspapers, 1997-present.
“Inlandia.” Creative nonfiction/futurism. In the Riverside Press-Enterprise, June 29, 2003.
RELATED POPULAR REVIEWS
Numerous articles and reviews for The New York Review of Science Fiction (1992-2002)
and Tangent (1994-96).
Peripheral Visions columnist, Starshore, 1990-91.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Book tours, bookstore readings and signings, media interviews, and science fiction convention presentations literally too numerous to mention, in support of the publication of my first six novels, 1997-present.
“Stages of Night and Twilight,” “Voice of the Dolphin in Air,” “A Private Drive in Time’s Winged Chariot,” “The Self -Healing Sky,” “The Son of the Sun,” and “Last Memory in Oblivion,” short story readings 2000-present, as invited writer/reader on “Valley Writers Read” radio program, on NPR-affiliate radio station KVPR, Fresno.
“Apokatopiendence: End-Time Obsessions in Science, Fiction, Film, and other Religions” presented as part of Eaton Conference 2005, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle, May 2005.
Presented 2002 Endeavour Award to Ursula K. LeGuin for her 2001 book, Tales From Earthsea. Served as one of three judges on the Award, and as Award presenter. Portland, OR, November 2002.
“Once Out of Nature,” short story reading, as invited Writer Guest of University of California, Riverside’s 25th Annual Writers’ Week, February 2002.
“Cyberpunk and Postmodernism,” lecture presented to interdisciplinary course at CSU San Marcos at the invitation of Professor Bonnie Bade, Anthropology, 9 May 2001.
“But What Will The Neighbors Think? Writing Science Fiction and Other Strange Business.” Talk presented to Valley Independent Publishers meeting at Borders Books, 3 April 2001.
“Urbe et Orbe: A Prehistory of the Postmodern World City.” Keynote address delivered at Chinese University of Hong Kong’s “Eaton Hong Kong 2001: East Meets West in the Emerging Global Village,” January 2001
“Fighting Out of Context: Culture Wars Within and Without Science Fiction From Snow To Sokal.” Keynote Address delivered to the 20th Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, January 1999.
“From Soma to Moksha: Eating God in Huxley’s Brave New World and Island.” Presented at the Thirteenth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, North American Session, Riverside, CA 1991.
“Making the Pulpmonster Safe for Demography: OMNI Magazine and the Gentrification of Science Fiction.” Presented at the Twelfth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, Riverside, CA 1990.
“An Unstable Word for ‘this Worlde Unstable’: Apocalypse in Malory’s Sankgreal and Morte. Nineteenth Annual Interdisciplinary CAES (Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies) Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, October 1988.
“The Statue of Liberty is Closed for Repairs.” Paper presented on African American playwright Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) at North American Session of Themes in Drama Conference, Riverside, CA 1983.
“The Thing of Shapes to Come: Science Fiction as Anatomy of the Future.” Presented at the Sixth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, North American Session, Riverside, CA, 1984.
“A Diamond as Big as the Earth: Paradigm Shift as Metaphor for Historical Change in Two Novels by Clarke.” Presented at the UK Session of the Sixth Annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, London, 1984.
