Fiction

What better way to launch SpaceWesterns.com than with the return of that venerable folk hero of the Old Space West, Bat Durston? This story previously appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine [Sep/Oct 1978] and two years later in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Anthology, [Volume 4, Fall-Winter 1980]. Now, after nearly thirty years this classic has found its way here, online, to SpaceWesterns.com — ed. N.E. Lilly

Ben Jonjak’s story Threshold holds the honor of being the first original story accepted by Space Westerns. All we can really say about it is… he had us at “Uranium miners”. — ed. N.E. Lilly

This is Mr. Goodman’s first sale to SpaceWesterns.com, and we’re sure that there will be more in the future. The Ice Dwarves is about a boy, and his life caring for genetically resurrected mammoths and dodging dragons… but everything isn’t always as simple as it seems, on Pluto. — ed. N.E. Lilly

Imagine, if you will, a small friendly town, somewhere out West. A friendly little town that’s just plain friendly to everyone, without any alien influence or demonic possession of any kind. Such a town is likely to attract all sorts of weary travellers. — ed. N.E. Lilly

Catskinner Sweet and the Twirling Teacups of Deadwood City was originally published in 2001 at Nuketown. Nuketown, sadly, doesn’t publish fiction anymore, so we’re proud to have this story here. — ed. N.E. Lilly

Jens Rushing brings us this fine tale about a conflict between energy wranglers and the bureaucracy, in this, our 10th article to appear on SpaceWesterns.com. — ed. N.E. Lilly

Part 1 of the two part story, Bruce Gehweiler & C.J. Henderson bring us a shared-world of Byanntia. —ed. N.E. Lilly

Conclusion to the two part story, Bruce Gehweiler & C.J. Henderson bring us a shared-world of Byanntia. —ed. N.E. Lilly

In 1935 Stanley G. Weinbaum gave us an utterly alien view of the late 21st century frontier of Venus. Although the planet seems outlandish now, it was supported by the known science of the time. — ed. N.E. Lilly