Howard Vincent Hendrix is an American scholar and science fiction writer. He was born in Cincinnati. He is a cousin of blues musician Mike Tetrault. He is author of the novels Lightpaths and Standing Wave, Better Angels, Empty Cities of the Full Moon, The Labyrinth Key, and Spears of God. His early short stories are found in the ebook Mobius Highway.
"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.
Hendrix created a stir among science fiction and fantasy fans and authors with a LiveJournal 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 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 podcasts. His comments have drawn criticism from a number of other authors, such as Michael A. Stackpole, John Scalzi, and David Wellington, and resulted in International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.