![]() Regardless, I love the cover art, and the Synopsis, and I am definitely going to check this out. Grordbort-esque ray gun on the cover, how can you go wrong? Or could that be one of those cases of judging a book by it's cover?.hmmmm. ![]() Mike resnick weird west plus#I think I'm on board, that sounds really cool! Plus with the very Dr. Corral? Think again, as five time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western tale, and the West will never be the same. Welcome to a West like you’ve never seen before, where “Bat Masterson” hails from the ranks of the undead, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while horseless stagecoaches carry passengers to and fro, and where death is no obstacle to The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo. But what shows up instead is The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo, returned from the dead and come to Tombstone looking for a fight. Battle lines are drawn, and the Clanton gang, which has their own reasons for wanting Edison dead, sends for Johnny Ringo, the one man who might be Doc Holliday's equal in a gunfight. Against them stand the Apache wizard Geronimo and the Clanton gang. Riding to their aid-old friends Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. Hired to protect this great genius, Wyatt Earp and his brothers.īut there are plenty who would like to see the Earps and Edison dead. Beyond lies the Indian nations, where the magic of powerful Medicine Men have halted the advance of the Americans east of the river.Īn American government desperate to expand its territory sends Thomas Alva Edison out West to the town of Tombstone, Arizona on a mission to discover a scientific means of counteracting magic. The United States of America ends at the Mississippi River. The official press release for the title is this: He's won 5 Hugo awards and has been nominated for 28 more, sheesh! So its safe to say that Im not too worried that his new book will be awesome (or at least it should be awesome and theres no excuse for it not to be!) I didn't know who Mike Resnick was but he has a long and very impressive resume. Its called The Buntline Special: A Weird West Tale, and its being written by Mike Resnick. ![]() So, I was perusing the Aethernet today, looking for this or that, when I came across a very interesting book that's going to be published at the end of the year. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 Worldcon and can be found online as on Twitter or at. : The Doctor and the Kid: A Weird West Tale (Weird West Tales). His work has been translated into 25 languages. He was the author of 68 novels, over 250 stories, and 2 screenplays, and was the editor of 41 anthologies. and has been short-listed for major awards in England, Italy and Australia. He was the winner of five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the United States, France, Spain, Japan, Croatia and Poland. He is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 Worldcon and can be found online as on Twitter or at Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick, better known by his published name Mike Resnick, was a popular and prolific American science fiction author. ![]() Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick, better known by his published name Mike Resnick, was a popular and prolific American science fiction author. ![]()
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