Howard Vincent Hendrix is an American

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 scholar and science fiction

Science fiction

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 writer. He was born in Cincinnati. He is a cousin of blues

Blues

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 musician Mike Tetrault. He is author of the novels Lightpaths and Standing Wave, Better Angels

Better Angels

Better Angels is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 1999.-Plot introduction:Better Angels is a prequel to Hendrix's earlier novels Lightpath and Standing Wave, filling in history about how the characters in those novels came to be who they are.-Explanation of the...

, Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Empty Cities of the Full Moon is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 2001.-Plot introduction:The novel revolves around the near extinction of the humanity by an artificial prion originally designed to help the mentally ill but which becomes a shamanistic pandemic of...

, The Labyrinth Key

The Labyrinth Key

The Labyrinth Key is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 2004.-Plot introduction:The backdrop for this story is an informational arms races between a future United States of America and China. Both countries are attempting to build a quantum computer, which they believe...

, and Spears of God. His early short stories are found in the ebook Mobius Highway.

Awards

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

• Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award prizewinner, for "At the Shadow of a Dream."

• 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".

Novels

• Lightpaths (1997)
• Standing Wave (1998)
• Better Angels
  Better Angels
  Better Angels is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 1999.-Plot introduction:Better Angels is a prequel to Hendrix's earlier novels Lightpath and Standing Wave, filling in history about how the characters in those novels came to be who they are.-Explanation of the...
  
  (1999)
• Empty Cities of the Full Moon
  Empty Cities of the Full Moon
  Empty Cities of the Full Moon is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 2001.-Plot introduction:The novel revolves around the near extinction of the humanity by an artificial prion originally designed to help the mentally ill but which becomes a shamanistic pandemic of...
  
  (2001)
• The Labyrinth Key
  The Labyrinth Key
  The Labyrinth Key is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 2004.-Plot introduction:The backdrop for this story is an informational arms races between a future United States of America and China. Both countries are attempting to build a quantum computer, which they believe...
  
  (2004)
• Spears of God (2006)

Short fiction and poetry

• “Monuments of Unageing Intellect” (novelet) in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact (June 2009)

• “Flame of Branches” (short story) in vMeme21 (new media/multimedia, June 2009)

• “Knot Your Grandfather’s Knot” (short story) in Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, March 2008

• “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" (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.

• "A Fine Old Tradition" (short story), Pulphouse
  Pulphouse Publishing
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  #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: University 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.

Controversy

Hendrix created a stir among science fiction and fantasy fans and authors with a LiveJournal

LiveJournal

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 posting on April 12, 2007. 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

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

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 after having served as its vice president. He criticized authors who offer their works for free on the internet, either as written works, or recorded as podcast

Podcast

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s. His comments have drawn criticism from a number of other authors, such as Michael A. Stackpole

Michael A. Stackpole

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, John Scalzi

John Scalzi

John Michael Scalzi II is an American author and online writer, and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog , at which he has written...

, and David Wellington, and resulted in International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day is a commemoration declared by author Jo Walton, held on April 23 and first celebrated in 2007, in response to remarks made by Howard V. Hendrix stating that he was opposed "to the increasing presence in our organization [the Science Fiction and Fantasy...

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External links

• The Fantastic Worlds of Howard V. Hendrix
• Celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
• Howard V. Hendrix's remarks about releasing work free online