The Space Western Canon

His name is Marshal Bravestarr, and he’s come to the rough-and-tumble planet of New Texas in the 22nd century to bring some law to its anarchy. Aided by the shape-changing technohorse Thirty-Thirty and the beautiful Judge J.B., Bravestarr protects the settlers and miners from the motley villains that want to steal the valuable mineral Kerium.

In the distant future humans have spread beyond Earth and colonized planets across the universe, creating a New Frontier of man. Earth’s Cavalry Command was created in order to protect the new settlers and maintain laws and regulations. Within Cavalry Command was a unit of special operatives known as Star Sheriffs that functioned as field agents, investigating crimes and plots against the security of the New Frontier.

A careful and meticulous study of the Western Theme in Science Fiction Literature.

Commander Benjamin Sisko is in charge of a diverse crew who must fight off rival alien species who want control of the space station Deep Space Nine because of its strategic position close to a wormhole, which allows speedy travel to the far reaches of space.

The town of Oblivion is being terrorized by the snakelike, power-mad Redeye. He shoots the sheriff and disarms Stell Barr, his cyborg deputy. Enter Zack Stone, son of the late Sheriff Stone. Because he is an empath and feels the pain of others, he walks a path of non-violence. Can he remain pacifistic in the face of Redeye’s terrifying reign?

A group of space colonists, led by Devon Adair and John Danzinger, are sent to a far off planet to prepare it for colonization by the surviving population of Earth. But a mishap sends them careening off-course, crash landing thousands of miles from the proper camp site. The series follows the band of colonists as they traverse the planet, encountering dangerous aliens and other humans who view them with distrust and suspicion.

In the year 2258 (ten years after the Earth-Minbari War) Commander Sinclair takes command of a giant five-mile-long cylindrical space station, orbiting a planet in neutral space. At a crossroads of interstellar commerce and diplomacy, Cmdr Sinclair (and later Captain Sheridan) must try to establish peace and prosperity between various interstellar empires, all the while fighting forces from within the Earth Alliance.

Vash is a nice guy, but everyone wants to kill him. An enigma of a man with a coat full of bullet holes, he’s widely feared because of the destruction left in his wake. And he’s also highly valued for the price on his head. But he’s no easy man to kill. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from trying. What’s his mission? Where’s he from?

In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe…for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful-and feared-hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life…

In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash, who just “inherited” a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye’s brother, Jaggar, who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It’s a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion, Jaggar, and Sweeney.