Custer's last jump and other collaborations

A stew of talent, well simmered... In a career that has spanned thirty-four years, Howard Waldrop has withheld these collaborations from his five short story collections, in order to create a dream, this special volume. Included are several Hugo and Nebula nominated stories, ranging from Waldrop's second year as a professional writer to, in his words, "metaphysically, the week before last." "One Horse Town" (with Leigh Kennedy) was chosen for inclusion in the nineteenth The Year's Best Science Fiction; a mix of the Sack of Troy, Homer's early days, the last day in the life of a Trojan warrior, and the archeological dig at Troy. This speculative (alternate?) history breathes fresh life into a tale that is literally thousands of years old. Alternate history is a specialty of Waldrop, as shown in "Custer's Last Jump!" (with Steven Utley), where Crazy Horse uses Confederate monoplanes in his famous battle with General Custer. "A Voice and Bitter Weeping" (with Jake "Buddy" Saunders) paints a grim post-nuclear age, where Israeli mercenaries fight Texans, in a never-ending, exhausting, hopeless war. A bid to study, and perhaps use as a bioweapon, an intelligent parasitic fungus forces th