![]() An officer goes mad and kills a bunch of his soldiers. Following the trail of mechanical spiders, he finds everything he needs.Ī dirty wanderer is caught 'wrecking the horseless carriage on Main Street a little after two in the morning.' The sheriff recognizes him as his old friend and partner and allows him to tell his story. Ray Malcolm needs answers about his origin, the truth about why his bones are made of metal and why he doesn't seem to have a heart. Something strange happened to Monk's young friend. He also never expected an extraordinary gift. There is an annoying scene with a very beautiful woman they meet, but the ending saved it.īookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger Charles YuĪ young man accidentally finds himself in a role he never expected. The Apraxis isn't the only thing they find. Fran and Jonathan are on their way 'to determine the reason that the local Apraxis swarms have been moving during their settled season'. Thanks to this story I got this anthology. Passing through Nevada, Westbound on the Southern Pacific Railway, 1931 The coachman shouldn't have put those four together. ![]() ![]() The Hell-Bound Stagecoach by Mike Resnickįour people are travelling together and only when they start talking do they realize that their coach isn't an ordinary one. You won't know where this story would take you judging by its beginning. ![]() He has to go to the High Frontier, a city in the clouds discovered four years earlier. Morgan Gray, a Texas ranger, is on a trail of a skin-walker when a Stranger who helped him out before calls in a favour. Hellfire On The High Frontier by David Farland WintersĬrane and Caleb, two gold prospectors, get an opportunity of their lifetime when a strange old man offers him a very special deal. The Old Slow Man And His Gold Gun From Space by Ben H. Where else could you read about fist fight with a vampiric monster? LansdaleĪ reluctant Hand of God, Reverend Jebediah Mercer from the dead of the west, is drawn to yet another fight against the evil. The Red-Headed Dead: A Reverend Jebediah Mercer Tale by Joe R. This anthology shows just how grateful this theme is. Some have magic, others steam engines, and some have both some have only one character in it with the exception of the thing they are fighting, others have battles some are about the living, others are about the dead some have only humans, others other creatures too some are sad, some humorous. With the exception of two or three stories which I didn't love as much as the rest, this is a great collection with a common theme: wild west. Winters, The Old Slow Man and his Gold Gun from SpaceĠ3 - David Farland, Hellfire on the High FrontierĠ4 - Mike Resnick, The Hell-Bound StagecoachĠ5 - Seanan McGuire, Stingers and StrangersĠ6 - Charles Yu, Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslingerġ2 - Orson Scott Card, Alvin and the Apple Treeġ3 - Elizabeth Bear, Madam Damnable's Sewing Circleġ9 - Ken Liu, What I Assume You Shall Assume Winters, Christie Yant, and Charles Yu, with an introduction by editor John Joseph Adams.Ġ1 - Joe R. Buckell, David Farland, Alan Dean Foster, Jeffrey Ford, Laura Anne Gilman, Rajan Khanna, Mike Resnick, Beth Revis, Fred Van Lente, Walter Jon Williams, Ben H. Included are Orson Scott Card’s first “Alvin Maker” story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, writer of Cowboys & Aliens. Here are twenty-three original tales-stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic-produced specifically for this volume by many of today’s finest writers. From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.
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