It’s clear from the odds the Kid has faced and beaten, his miraculous escape from prison, and his friendship with the Indian tribes of New Mexico that he is protected by some powerful magic. The biggest reward is for the death of the young, twenty-year-old desperado known as Billy the Kid. He considers his options and hits upon the one most likely to produce income in a hurry: he’ll use his skill as a shootist and turn bounty hunter. He realizes that he needs to replenish his bankroll, and quickly, so that he can live out his days in comfort under medical care. Corral and the battle with the thing that used to be Johnny Ringo behind him (see The Buntline Special), the consumptive Doc Holliday makes his way to Deadwood, Colorado, with Kate Elder, where he plans to spend the rest of his brief life, finally moving into the luxurious facility that specializes in his disease.īut one night he gets a little too drunk - hardly a novelty for him - and loses everything he has at the gaming table. Regardless, I love the cover art, and the Synopsis, and I am definitely going to check this out.The time is 1882. 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.
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