“I wanted to use the idea of a biotech-mediated apocalypse and its afterworld to test some personal hypotheses.”
Howard V. Hendrix
Empty Cities of
the Full Moon
What's New
Recent Publications: 2010
Short Story, "Falling Forward"
Appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, December 2009
Poem, "Boomer Dog Days,
in Asimov's Magazine.
"Encounter at Totality"
"To Mother, Via Earth"
"A Bridge Across the Lethe"
"The End of Mirth"
Short stories accepted/being held/under submission
"Encounter"
to be broadcast on NPR affiliate KVPR "Valley Writers Read," March 24 2010.
Chronicling Mars:
Stories and Histories of A World Next Door
(scholarly book proceeding from the 2008 J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, currently under submission with McFarland and Company). Senior Editor, with Eric Rabkin and George Slusser
Essays on “Wild fires,” Population Connection,” and “Kirkpatrick Sale”
in Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Salem Press, Pasadena, California 2010.
Destry Rides Again
In The Thirties in America. Salem Press, Pasadena, California 2010.
Seventh novel: Untroubled By Dreams
(still in progress)
2009
Essay: "The Other Part of the Equation,"
appeared in Penguin Classics anthology on global warming and environmentalism, Thoreau's Legacy (2009; book partnership between Penguin and the Union of Concerned Scientists).
Novelette: "Monuments of Unageing intellect,"
appeared in June 2009 issue of Analog Magazine.
Short story: "Flame of Branches,"
July 2009 release by multimedia producer vMeme21.com.
Short Story: "Interrogations in the Observatory,"
in Flurb 8.
Poem: "Bumbershoot
in Abyss and Apex.
“Verne Among the Punks, or ‘It’s Not All Just a Victorian Clockwork’.
In Verniana: Journal of the North American Jules Verne Society, Volume 1, 2009. Reprinted
in Exhibition Hall magazine (2010).
Seventh novel: Untroubled By Dreams
(in progress)
2008
"Knot Your Grandfather's Knot"
Appears in the March 2008 issue of /Analog/ Magazine
2006
Spears of God
Publishes November 2006.
The Labyrinth Key
Re-released in mass market paperback, February 2006.
All's Well at World's End
Futureshocks, Roc, January 2006
2005
Waiting for Citizen Gödel
Aeon Five, November 2005
The Self-Healing Sky
Aeon Two, February 2005
Spears of God
Howard's latest book—Spears of God—is in stores and online. Check it out today.