From the drought-plagued plains of Mars, to a post-apocalyptic Canada, to the familiar American West and Mexico, to other dimensions and other worlds weird and wonderful, an international cast of bestselling, award-winning, established, and emerging authors brings you 25 strange western tales:
Robert Lee Beers: A hardboiled PI and his partner must find their way back to the present from 1906 San Francisco before the Big One hits, dodging gunslingers and the risk of changing history, with only a drunken misanthropic wizard to help them.
James Blakey: A sheriff must question a colourful cast of characters to discover who has stolen a unicorn rancher’s herd.
Zach Chapman: A card-cheating Spellslinger must duel a mysterious Green Gunslinger to his damnation or salvation.
Sara Codair: Two Martian sheriffs must stop a gang of outlaws from stealing a settlement’s precious water, if they can keep their marriage together long enough to do it.
Eric S. Fomley: A marshal comes to town seeking an outlaw, but neitherare the ordinary kind…
Milo James Fowler: Heroic Coyote Cal, the witch Donna Jamieson, and faithful sidekick Big Yap must stop a monster from ravaging the livestock and people of a town in the western desert.
Ron S. Friedman: A WWI pilot shot down over the Amazon must survive Germans, crazy scientists, the jungle and dinosaurs.
Carrie Gessner: An elven veteran is called back to face her demons when a little girl is snatched to serve the army that destroyed her.
Paul Alex Gray: The heir to the Bourbon Throne must earn coin in America to overthrow the French Republic and reclaim his birthright, so he builds a fantastic contraption to aid him.
Jude-Marie Green: Sorceress Jane Smith knows her partner Donna Quick is quite mad, but she follows her anyway.
Brent A. Harris: Marshal Bass Reeves has been asked for help by a desperate frontier settlement beleaguered by a dragon.
Ethan Hedman: A wandering gunfighter inherits an enchanted weapon, but it’s broken.
Joachim Heijndermans – Two outlaws hole up in a quiet town full of terrified townsfolk, but all is not as it seems.
Russell Hemmell: Two investigators must discover why an entire colony in the Kuiper Belt has disappeared, leaving an anachronistic western ghost town in its place.
Liam Hogan: A young outlaw is hunted by an implacable mechanical foe.
G. Scott Huggins: A blacksmith with ghostly allies receives an unusual and dangerous client.
Sean Jones: The last Norse descendant in North America, who swears vengeance on the Comanche for killing his wife and village, is given supernatural aid by the Navajo.
Mackenzie Kincaid: Junior died helping Pa maintain the fence against the Somethings, so now 12-year-old Jane must take his place.
R. Daniel Lester: An old tap-dancing celebrity defaults on payments for his magical shoes, and a repo agent has come to collect.
Diane Morrison: Two young elven Gunslingers must stop a cannibal spirit before it, or the blizzard it brings, kills everyone they know.
Diana L. Paxson: A painter journeys to the Rockies to paint landscapes and stumbles upon an ancient mystery.
Claire Ryan – Rollo is going to get her giant slug herd in to market, come hell or high water, monster or no monster.
Ricardo Victoria: An ex-spellslinger has taken up a career as a travelling salesbeing of a newfangled weapon called a ’rifle.’
Stanley B. Webb: A US Marshal must stop a notorious outlaw who may or may not be a dragon.
We invite you to explore these stories in the grand pulp fiction tradition!
Featuring a classic Solomon Kane story by Robert E. Howard.
Innehållsförteckning
5 Acknowledgements
6 Kickstarter Backer List
7 Copyright Acknowledgements
9 Foreword: The Many Faces of Western
11 A Note on Spelling and Grammar
13 Inheritance by Ethan Hedman
19 When the Bell Strikes Three by Joachim Heijndermans
33 The Case of the Vanishing Unicorns by James Blakey
53 A Different Kind of Law by Eric S. Fomley
57 Red Tide Rising by Sara Codair
69 Pinkerton by Liam Hogan
83 The Teeth of Winter by Diane Morrison
121 Fallen Horseshoes by G. Scott Huggins
135 Raiders of the Lost World by Ron S. Friedman
153 No-Sell by Ricardo Victoria
165 Rattle of Bones by Robert E. Howard
171 Blazing Beamard by Stanley B. Webb
181 Rick and the Green Gunslinger by Zach Chapman
193 One Hell of a Game by Robert Lee Beers
239 Orcus Express, Derailed by Russell Hemmell
249 Glorious Madness by Jude-Marie Green
261 El Diablo de Paseo Grande by Milo James Fowler
275 By Way of Answer by Sean Jones
283 The Sound of One Shoe Tapping by R. Daniel Lester
289 Balthazar Beausoleil’s Blink Wolf Basher by Paul Alex Gray
299 The Burning Plains by Brent A. Harris
315 A Prayer for the Reaping Season by Mackenzie Kincaid
329 Rollo’s Herd by Claire Ryan
343 Riders of the Rainbow Ridge by Diana L. Paxson
359 Lonesome by Carrie Gessner
371 About the Editor
Om författaren
Diane Morrison is a short and long-form fiction hybrid author and editor, Canada. She likes pickles and bluegrass, and hates talking about herself. An avid National Novel Writing Month participant and gaming geek, she is proudly Canadian and proudly LGBTQ. She manages the official SFWA You Tube channel, where she gets to interview some of her favourite authors and other interesting people in the SFF field. Under her pen name ’Sable Aradia’ she is a successful Pagan author, a musician, and a professional blogger. She lives with her partners and a three-legged rescue cat in Vernon, BC, where she was born and raised. Check her out at her website www.dianemorrisonfiction.com
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