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They Were the Wind, is another Byanntia tale by C.J. Henderson that was written as a response to environmentalism. In it we learn about previous inhabitants of the planet Byanntia, and get a new outlook on the old adage: “Leave nothing behind but your footprints.”

SpaceWesterns.com was barely a month old when we were thrilled find ourselves in an Interview with David G. Hartwell on the topic of Space Westerns.

Mathematics of Hunger, by Jason Andrew, is a classic Space Western tale of smugglers.

SpaceWesterns.com has published 100 articles, and we are proud to make “Kin” by Bruce McAllister that 100th article. We’ve also doubled our rates for fiction, articles, illustrations, and comics, and are still actively seeking audio and video content.

The 22nd Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction will be hosted on the SpaceWesterns.com Sideshow. Our specific topic suggestion: Women in Space Westerns. Send submissions (blogged between May 3rd, 2008 and October 28th, 2008) to Nathan E. Lilly. Additional submission information is available on the submissions page.

Beans, Blades, & Bullets: A Pulp Tale of Grit & Zen, by Steve Logan, was an unusual space samurai/cowboy tale.

Is anyone else slightly saddened that we haven’t been back lately?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon… we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency.

Delivered at Rice University in Houston, Texas on 12 September 1962 by John F. Kennedy

Young as the Mountains by C.J. Henderson is a second tale set in Bruce Gehweiler’s world of Byanntia.

I had scheduled an Interview with Mark L. Van Name while at Balticon 41. I was initially a bit hesitant, although his work sounded like it would be a good fit, I was still a bit unsure. Mark gave me additional insights into what a Space Western is, and about the tropes of the Western genre that found their way to Outer-space.

Parasite Planet, was written in 1935 by Stanley Weinbaum, a science fiction writer whose career was all too brief.