Corazón—Part 1
Jens Rushing brings us a Space Western/Fantasy, in three parts. Part 1 introduces our heroine: Dixie O’Dell. — ed, N.E. Lilly
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Commentary
Is Firefly “Out of Gas”?
by N.E. Lilly
On this, the 20 year anniversary of the cancellation of Firefly, let’s take some time to reflect. What are the odds that a canceled Space Western can make a comeback? —ed, N.E. Lilly
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Commentary
The Emancipation of Bat Durston, or, “I’m from Iowa, I only work in Outer-space”
by N.E. Lilly
From the early pulps to Galaxy Magazine to the modern recurrence, here’s an overview of the Space Western genre, and its relevance in Science Fiction. Originally published in Strange Horizons, November 2009 — ed, N.E. Lilly
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Fiction
Star Song
by T.J. McIntyre
Westerns tend to be dreams about how life once was; Science Fiction, about how life is to be. Every once in a while we encounter a dream that’s something more. — ed, N.E. Lilly
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Daily Fiction Re-read
Craphound
by Cory Doctorow
This story, originally published in Science Fiction Age, March 1998, sums up how I feel about the Space Western genre in a lot of ways. These Space Westerns, the ones on this site and the many more that have yet to appear, the reprints and the original works, the Space Western fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the hard science fiction Space Westerns of Isaac Asimov, even the crappy little Space Operas and Bat Durstons, all of them are “a poem and a story.” — ed, N.E. Lilly
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